What if a ring could remind you that you’re not alone? What if a bracelet quietly held a story about who you are, and where you’ve been? I work across two practices that may seem quite different: I’m a jeweller and a community-based researcher and facilitator. One involves […]

Life rarely moves in a straight line. Instead, it circles through cycles, wanders into tangents and, if we’re paying attention, reveals progress in often unexpected ways. Perhaps when we look back, progress means something different to each of us, becoming apparent […]

In my last post, I wrote about belonging, of how beauty often emerges through the quiet, persistent work of becoming ourselves. Lately, I have been thinking about another aspect of that journey: the marks we leave behind. In Northern Ontario, I am surrounded by a landscape that has been […]