A Door To Everything Society

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Our Visit to Wisteria Acres,
Krista Brown’s Therapeutic Horses,
August 2020

 

Another amazing day with Krista Brown and her beautiful horses; Wisteria Acres is a much anticipated outing for the women from John Volken Academy.

This wonderful visit was possible because of donations to Romeo’s Dream Adult Community Outreach Program – https://wisteriaacres.com/romeosdream/

Emily and Cricket

The women gazing across the field before interacting with the horses.

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Time for the Doors
to our Hearts to Swing Open!

 

I work as a reader online and at White Rabbits, 3666 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver and TAP Spirit, Gasoline Alley, Fort Langley.

When I do readings I use Tarot cards, and a deck I’ve created called, Cards of Balance, that focus on Universal Laws, Divine Qualities, our dimensional reality connected to a 13 chakra system.

Often I talk about the importance of sitting still in the heart — out of the mind — imagining a pebble drop from mind to heart and sitting there heart listening.

It’s quite different from being in the mind and meditating.

With consistency, one can become quite adept at communicating with our guidance, through the heart.

The other thing I always tend to mention when I’m a reader is how important it is to be balanced, in equal Love for the Divine Mother and the Divine Father, which relates back to our own mother and father.

I found with myself that I tended to favour one energy more than the other, and that imbalance, holding onto past hurts either masculine or feminine, created all kinds of pain and suffering.

When we process what has happened in our lives with forgiveness and come to a place of gratitude for the experience, the good, the bad, the ugly, we balance within, and life flows so much better.

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Seeds from Willow Florists
Deep Cove, North Vancouver

 

Thank you, Gabriele, for the seeds for the Briar Patch, DTES!

Linda and Kathleen holding seeds from Willow Florists

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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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