“I take a lot of my inspiration from the natural world around me,” says Gordon Hutchens, Denman Island’s ...
Award-winning potter Gordon Hutchens may be in his seventies, but he’s still got plenty of clay to shape, students to teach, and ideas to pursue.
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Richard Mravik was born in 1973 in the city of Nove Zamky, Slovakia. Of Hungarian descent, he was noted from a ...
Glynnis was raised on a hobby farm on Vancouver Island by parents who were "hippies" of the day. Their ...
The fire that forged the earth
holds the space between us
ancient atoms
in our blood and bones
pulled to the ...
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“All along the way, where the deep green forest used to stand, lies a waste of mangled trunks and branches, enough ...
On a hot summer day in 1938, a few sparks from a locomotive caused Vancouver Island’s largest blaze.
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The third in our series imagining how the Comox Valley’s communities could look 20 years from now. ...
Twenty years after the pandemic, a local historian looks back.
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Earth, air, water, fire. In the extreme, these elemental forces can be either ineffectual or catastrophic. They ...
Because our personal relationship with fire is a cautious one, we love the excitement of fire shows.
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Burning sage, summer heat, and the vegetal scent of the plants in the traditional Indigenous tea garden of the ...
Public Place / Sacred Space leaves a meaningful legacy in downtown Courtenay.
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True story: my first-ever sauna experience included pitchers of gin Caesars and a waterslide—a really steep one. ...
Bathing in the benefits of hot-cold rituals.
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Before the headlines were screaming “Murder Hornets!!!” (officially known as Vespa mandarinia, aka “Baskin bees” ...
Wasps are a family of insects truly to be loathed. Or are they?
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