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BEING FREE
Poetry by Janice Szostak

 

Briar Patch Garden, Downtown Eastside

I can remember the thing that I had
From wisdom I know without it I’m sad!
Does the word Freedom mean something to You,
or is it JUST that you pay your dues?
As for me; I think it’d be FUN, to Live with The LAND
Just as ONE!
Not to destroy the BEAUTY around,
To Live in PEACE, that’s with The GROUND!
To Live in PEACE…to grow with The Trees…to
Sing with The Birds & Breathe with The Leaves
And through Your Life You’ll learn to begin,
To FLY Your SPIRIT, FREE with THE WIND!

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Volunteering in the Briar Patch,
Downtown Eastside, Vancouver

 

In the Fall of 2019, at an evening meditation circle in West Vancouver, I met Tory, a shamanic drummer, who spoke of participating in the Indigenous pipeline protests. Her courage was palpable and fascinating.

At another circle, in early 2020, she told me that she’d been asked to manage the Briar Patch neighbouring the Budzey, women’s housing, in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and she was wondering if A Door To Everything Society would like to be involved. . .

I immediately said, “Yes” and since then we’ve been collaborating — mostly me watching Tory do amazing work — organizing this magical garden in the heart of Canada’s poorest postal code, Vancouver’s DTES.

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