June 25, 2020 By Kathleen

topics for scholarship essays help writing an essay paper Why I’m Making, Selling
and Donating Face Masks

My principal guide in January 2012 said to me in a reading, with Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love:

“Viruses are simply ideas that get transmitted.”

At the time I had no idea what she was talking about. Now it makes sense.

Recently I’ve had two emails telling me to stop making face masks.

There’s some controversy around them, and “good or bad” if someone would like to wear a mask, I feel it’s a personal choice.

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January 30, 2020 By Kathleen

June Ariano-Jakes
and Making Cards for the Ones on the Street

Recently the John Volken Academy women and I heard a talk from June Ariano-Jakes who has written a book called, Addiction: A Mother’s Story.

We listened spell-bound as this amazing woman, in a very soft voice, explained that she is incapable of anger and how that influenced her relationship with her son and his devastating addiction issues.

I highly recommend her book. It is an incredible look at the mean streets of Vancouver, the fall-out from the horrific life of an addict, and the gang activity.

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January 8, 2020 By Kathleen

John Volken Academy Graduation, January 5th, 2020

Congratulations to Brek, Lucas, Tylor, Tiernan, and Ellie!

John Volken Academy is a live-in therapeutic community in Surrey, BC, for recovery from addiction. Their excellent program focusses on life skills, striving to instil in each student the desire align with core values of self-worth, forgiveness, and humility.

For more details see here: https://www.volken.org/program/

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December 12, 2019 By Kathleen

Assisting Women and Children,
Cabos San Lucas, Mexico

December 3-10th, 2019, a group of us travelled with Kelly Oswald, owner of The Oracle, and her husband, James, to the tip of the Baja Peninsula, Cabos San Lucas, Mexico.

Kelly’s friend, Adriana, helped chaperone us as we visited foundations assisting beautiful women and children living in poverty and often violence.

We participated in sharing a simple drawstring back pack pattern for the ladies to sew and sell, lunch-time feeding and clean-up at a local school, lots of playing, and handing out requested gifts of crayons and colouring books.

It was hard to witness the dichotomy of rich and poor — I knew it was there having visited Cabos before — but not to the extent I saw it this time. There is a marina full of million dollar yachts and a few miles away dirt roads, not enough food, violence and abuse. . .

Bless the ones born into the physical poverty with the possibility of violence and abuse.

We are here to lift everyone up,
for gender equality to be reality here Now.

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November 13, 2019 By Kathleen