Bugle Weed and White Violets: Home Blooms for Tent City and Come-From-Away Refugees Tent City Halifax with Bugle Weed and White Violets, May 2023 by Dorothy Lander When a flower grows wild, it can always survive. Wildflowers don’t care where they grow. […]
by Dorothy Lander Inspired by Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College history professor, and her daily newsletter (Letters from an American), which connects breaking political news directly to past eras in American history, I decided to write my own letter in response to the shattered Canada-America relations evolving from the executive orders of US President Trump […]
by Dorothy A. Lander We are Trees When the forest breathes out, you breathe in. When the forests thrive, you thrive. When the forest lives, you live. – Suzanne Simard, 2026 In May 2026, The Halifax Examiner reported on Suzanne Simard’s visit to Nova Scotia to launch her book When the Forest Breathes. It reminded […]
by Dorothy Lander One hundred and seventy civilians, mostly schoolchildren, in southern Iran will never eat another morsel of food. The deadly bombing of a primary school in Minab in southern Iran by the United States Military Tomahawk missiles—twice so no accident— on February 28, 2026, swept me back to our Antigonish-based book launch this […]
www.tryhealingarts.ca H-ealing A-rts R-econciling P-eoples March 8, 2026 Happy International Women’s Day, Honourable Michelle Thompson & Honourable Tim Houston: I write on behalf of HARP The People’s Press (www.tryhealingarts.ca), Nova Scotia’s independent multi-media publishing house and shareholder-owned Community Interest Company, dedicated to the healing arts for health equity. After the huge rallies across Nova Scotia […]
