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Hello Dear Ones:
If you're feeling inspired, keen or simply soulful, here is one easy way to dip your toe in this summer to begin exploring your contribution (optional, of course) for the 100 Women | 100 Oceans project - expected start date, late September 2025: Reflect and respond Consider how living rurally—and your connection to land, water, and community (or the absence of it)—shapes your identity as a woman and a mother. You're invited to send a thoughtful reflection, along with an optional high-resolution selfie, in response to this question: “What does it mean to YOU to be a rural mother, a mother of a child with difference from the so-called-norm, a disability, a lone parent or co-parent, or a parent with a hidden disability raising a child with differences (like me)?” I'm working on my answer too!
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Here is one easy way to dip your toe in this summer as you consider your rural parenting journey so far (optional, of course):
Send your creative expression Share a letter, poem, journal entry, short story, grocery list, photo, video, collage—whatever form best expresses your truth about rural motherhood in the Kootenays. Submissions may be thoughtfully selected for inclusion in a future book, exhibit, or digital gallery. Best to send attachments to [email protected]. I'm working away on my abstract selfies with my phone by the lake this month. Feeling excited! Hello Wonderful Ones:
Some of you have been gently (or boldly!) nudging me to get things rolling early—and guess what? I’m listening. While the official start date is still September 2025, I thought I’d send you a little something to stir the creative tide. Here’s what’s floating your way: A Little Light Reading (2 minutes) This short editorial appeared in the May 29th, 2025 edition of the Nelson Star and speaks to the heart of the 100 Women | 100 Oceans project: https://www.carinacostom.com/guest-essays.html Please share widely. Hello wonderful ones,
Grant News The application to the Canada Council for the Arts just passed the next stage since February 28th, 2025 grant request submission. The project is eligible and complete and we are now in the capable hands of the peer assessment team at the Canada Council. Fingers crossed, seaweed offerings made. I’ll keep you posted. |
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