This just in: A review of my first medical memoir, Journeys with a Thousand Heroes. “There is not a lot of time for me to read—other than reports, legislation, and civic correspondence in my life. No complaints. But personally, I have just read “Journeys With a Thousand Heroes: a Child Oncologist’s Story” by John Graham-Pole. […]
We are witnessing a huge global rallying cry to act swiftly and powerfully to arrest the climate crisis, which is set to destroy both us humans and many other species, and to lay waste to our whole ecology. Our own community is beginning to wake up and take action through building coalitions and planning local […]
Marharyta Zhurunova – Маргарита Журунова is Dorothy’s newfound companion botanical artist, who lives in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Here is an image entitled “The one sitting in the Rock” from Marharyta’s Land Art “Land of Power” Symposium of 2017. Marharyta is offering her botanical prints for $40 US as donations to the Come Back Alive fund: https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/uk/donate […]
Thoughts about Our Climate Crisis by John Graham-Pole “Another world is not only possible. She is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy “The climate crisis is a wake-up message spoken in the language of fires, flood, droughts and extinctions, telling us we must evolve to a […]
Unlock your Cuddle Hormone in 2022 Oxytocin is our brain’s chemical messenger that has come to be known as the cuddle hormone. Oxytocin first entered our consciousness while we were compiling a list of simple recommendations to lighten our carbon footprint for our HARP blog loosely titled Go Lightly on Our Earth. (https://tryhealingarts.ca/go-lightly-on-our-earth/) Specifically, we […]
On behalf of HARP Publishing The People’s Press, we express our deep condolences to Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation for the loss of Elder Ron Julian, your cherished wisdom keeper and protector of Mi’kmaq language and traditions. We remember with gratitude the participation of Elder Ron Julian at the Ottawa launch of HARP’s first publication, The People’s […]
Go Lightly on our Earth A Beginner’s How-To List Reduce, reuse, recycle—and get to minimize waste and feel goooood Eat less, drive less, buy less Walk more, bus and train more, cycle more, hug more, cuddle more, sleep more Multitask on your (hopefully rare) trips to town Eat local, buy local—especially at your nearest Famer’s […]
On Christmas Eve 2021, our healing arts social enterprise publishing house HARP Publishing The People’s Press reached its 15-publication milestone, when the novel Songlines, the last in John Graham-Pole s YAF trilogy, arrived on the doorstep of HARP Central in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. That’s 5 publications a year since HARP’s first publication in December […]
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https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/the-choreography-of-care/ Behind every book or other publication of HARP The People’s Press is a relationship. HARP’s latest title The Choreography of Care by Stuart Pimsler is no different. The Arts-in-Health movement in North America has kept HARP Publisher John Graham-Pole and Choreographer-Dancer Stuart Pimsler connected for over three decades. This video captures their connection […]
