Tag archive for ‘tradition’
Holiday Traditions – A Community Reading of Dickens A Christmas Carol
Editor’s Note: If you missed Marcie Dumais’ column on turning old traditions into something all your own, check it out HERE. Now, it’s time to tell you a bit about Our Big Earth’s last community event for 2009. We hope you’ll join us for a wonderful evening of fun for a great cause.
Our Big [...]
Making Old Family Traditions Your Own
Editor’s Note: This morning Marcie Dumais is on site with a look at folding old family traditions into your very own new holiday traditions. It’s such a fun time of year to reflect, honor, laugh and enjoy. Creating those memories and reliving happy pieces of our childhood are some of the best parts of this [...]
Holiday Traditions – Our Favorite Spot to Cut Down the Tree
Editor’s Note: If you missed this morning’s post, we got green and shopped local with recommendations for some of the hottest natural stocking stuffers for this year. Check it out HERE. Now, it’s time to get into the holiday spirit with the fun family tradition of cutting down the Christmas tree. We have a favorite [...]
Seeking the Light and the Warmth with Advent
Editor’s Note: Happy Saturday morning! We have Rebecca Watkin on site discussing the Waldorf tradition of Advent - a time of celebrating light. Here she is:
Deep Mid-winter drawing near –
May Light arise in our Garden here.
Advent has always been my favorite celebration. As a child I didn’t know it was Advent I loved, I only knew [...]
Food Through the Generations
Editor’s Note: Bite-Sized Specialty Foods is going to be at Brambles from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. There is some serious yumminess going on, so I would head in the direction of downtown Courtenay and check it out.
I would also like to encourage you to take some time out at Noon today and attend [...]
Enjoy A Local Chinese New Year Feast
With the Lunar New Year starting Monday (January 26), what better time to gather the family and celebrate by creating a local feast to commemorate the Year of the Ox.
In Chinese culture, food prepared during this celebratory season is meant to bring luck as many dishes have symbolic meaning in relation to their appearance and [...]
Learning About Dia de los Muertos
Well, the Great Pumpkin came and went, leaving some fun goodies for our allergy-prone tiny person.
…And then the Great Pumpkin sat down and ate all of the tiny person’s donated candy.
…And now the Great Pumpkin is paying the serious price for eating every last one of those little sugar candies and chocolates in one sitting.
OH [...]
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