January 2003
Dear Reader
It’s snowing! This means exercise – shovelling. Everything
takes a little longer when there’s snow. Maybe it’s
here to help us slow down a bit, and enjoy being here
.
January is almost over as I write this. Where did the month go?
Where did December go?
For Quills Quotes & Notes the book
“One Seed” 
was reformatted digitally and will be available by the end of the
month. And “The Day the Wind Changed” is coming to life
on the page. An interview with children’s entertainer Norman
Foote for the Vancouver Island Symphony gave more insight
into his message of "yes you can”, and how he has expanded
his performance to include symphony orchestras.
Presenting
“One Seed” 
in December to Grades 1 and 2 in Franklin Elementary School in Markham,
Ontario, was a wonderful experience and teachers sat with me afterwards
to chat about what
“One Seed” 
means to them. When I returned home I had a surprise package in
the mail, a work of art by Grade 1 student Kirsten of Merritt Central
Elementary. It was her interpretation in crayons of how the seed
grew into a tree and created an oasis on the desert.
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| Rosemary and "The Seeds" |
This last weekend (January 18),
“One Seed” 
was part of a Community Peace Concert that I produced here in Grand
Forks for the Boundary Peace Initiative. It was a fabulous concert
featuring local talent with the focus on songs of peace interspersed
with presentations from various political, social and spiritual
organizations. One of the many highlights was the Doukhobor Men’s
Choir, joined by the Youth Choir, to sing Bob Dylan’s “Blowing
In The Wind” in both English and Russian. I had the opportunity
to sing “Tears”
from my CD Homemade,
then I was joined on stage by “The Seeds” as we invited
the standing-room-only audience to join in and sing, “It took
one seed to make a diff’rence.”
Now it’s back to the computer to do research and writing for
stories, and to organize tours of both schools and hospice organizations
in central and northern British Columbia for this spring.
At this moment though the snow is building up. It’s time to
get the boots on and take hold of the snow shovel. So, until February,
here’s hoping you are warm and comfortable.
Cheers
Rosemary
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