2024 Comox Valley Collective Featured Poet Spring
It’s been a long sleep, and I forget how to belong. There were darker winters than this, resting far from the gaze of a thousand eyes; the trees taught me […]
Words by Erin PoettckerPhoto by Ron Pogue

THE JOYS OF KEEPING BIRDS
2024 Comox Valley Collective Spring
A FLOCK OF OUR OWN Two years ago, we moved from Cumberland to Black Creek and brought our small flock of hens with us. Having always dreamed of my own […]
Words by Nat Raedwulf PoguePhotos by Ron Pogue

THE NEXT RIGHT THING
Comox Valley Collective 2023 Fall Intro
My husband and I sometimes travelled with our kids when they were tiny. If we ever stayed in a motel, we would make them a “cozy nest” out of spare […]
Intro by Jen GroundwaterPhoto by Ron Pogue

GLOOM AND BEAUTY
Comox Valley Collective 2023 Intro
INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIVING A LIFE: PAY ATTENTION. BE ASTONISHED. TELL ABOUT IT. – MARY OLIVER In the process of editing this magazine, I’m often awestruck by the stories that appear […]
Words by Jen GroundwaterPhoto by Ron Pogue

EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS WRONG
2022 Comox Valley Collective Fall Opening Introduction
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Søren Kierkegaard, 1843 I don’t usually go around quoting Danish philosophers, but I think Kierkegaard was on […]
Words by Jen GroundwaterPhoto by Ron Pogue

THE BIG ONE
Comox Valley Collective 2019 Winter
The stopwatch on the computer screen read four minutes and counting until the Great British Columbia ShakeOut. When the counter hit zero, I—and more than a million other BC residents—crawled […]
Words by Andrew FindlayPhoto by Ron Pogue

OUR CHURCH BUILDINGS
Comox Valley Collective 2017 Fall
When I was a little girl in the 1960s, we’d play hand games to amuse ourselves: cat’s cradle, shadow puppets, and a charming little finger riddle that had us chanting to […]
Words by Dawn CopemanPhotos by Ron Pogue

SMALL SPACES, BIG TASTE
Comox Valley Collective 2017 Summer
It’s about time. We’re a food region. But the food truck movement is only just starting to make itself felt in the Comox Valley. We’ve had a mobile eatery that […]
Words by Hans Peter MeyerPhotos by Ron Pogue

COMOX VALLEY’S CRAFTING COMMUNITY
Comox Valley Collective 2016 What Winter
KNIT, CONNECT, KNIT I’ve been a knitter most of my life. I consider it a sort of meditation. In the past, it felt novel, or cute, to see a teenager […]
Words by Nat Raedwulf PoguePhotos by Ron Pogue

FAST FOOD ISN’T ALWAYS BAD FOOD
Comox Valley Collective 2016 Fall
The local food movement is often seen as the antithesis of ‘fast food’. These three Comox Valley food providers focus on quality products that make eating local a fast, healthy, […]
Words by Hans Peter MeyerPhotos by Ron Pogue

A TUNEFUL OF MEMORIES
Comox Valley Collective 2016 Fall
Monday night in the Comox Valley means it must be orchestra night! Over 60 community minded musicians from across the Comox Valley, Campbell River, and surrounding areas, travel to Courtenay […]
Featured photo by Ron PogueArticle photo by Strathcona Symphony Orchestra

ALTERNATIVE THERAPY
Comox Valley Collective 2016 Summer
I was raised by an artist. She painted signs, designed graphics, papier mâché’d masks, and rearranged and repainted our living room countless times. Her art hung on nearly every wall, […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Ron Pogue

BUILDING ON NATURE
Comox Valley Collective 2016 Spring
The process and eventual outcome of furniture craft provides a necessary staple around which some of the most basic human needs revolve. Eating, drinking, and socializing. Enjoying these fundamental privileges […]
Words by Ross BodenmannOpening photo by Sparrow and Me Photography

A BIG TENT WITH BIG INTENT
Winter 2014 Comox Valley Collective
An authentic Italian Circus Tent was shipped half way around the planet to Vancouver Island this past summer. It arrived accompanied by a certified British Tent Master who whipped a […]
Words by Meaghan CursonsPhotos by Ron Pogue

GET ON BOARD
Comox Valley Collective 2015 Fall
Get on Board is a Comox Valley based registered non-profit organization which uses board sports-surf/skate/snow and SUP to develop social skills, self-confidence and goal setting in youth. Get on Board […]
Photos by Ron Pogue

ELEVATION
Comox Valley Collective 2015 Spring
The streets and alleys of downtown Courtenay look considerably different in the first week of June. It could be the aerialists suspended from a crane, the green shrubs, benches and […]
Words by RJ HerronPhotos by Ron Pogue
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