Rain pelting the window, the last of the ochre maple leaves drifting past. Season of death, a fresh, smiling toddler runs up to a stranger, an apple in his out stretched hand.

Dear Victor died 4 hours after he came out of surgery last night. We have lost in body a bright, gentle, wise, beautiful keeper of West Coast First Nations wisdom, language & cultural traditions.

Just in from Victor’s 18 year old son Sol: DAD’S SURGERY WAS A COMPLETE SUCCESS!!!!!!! not out of the woods, but this stage of the journey is done!!!!! God bless the entire medical staff at Royal Juibilee Hospital!!!!! Such a relief!!!

Victor Reese, amazing First Nations carver and human being from Pender, has been in open heart surgery for 11 hours now. Sending you light & love dear Victor….

“We can’t fall out of the universe,” says Victor Reese, beloved First Nations storyteller & carver as he prepares for very risky open heart surgery tomorrow.

If simplicity is an eco-imperative, how do we make a modest lifestyle appealing?

If simplicity is an eco-imperative, how do we make a modest lifestyle appealing?

Though Honey & Holy Water has been #1 on the local Folk Chart and #7 on the national one for a while, I think lots of you have not heard my music. Take a listen & consider becoming a fan ~ Thanks!
http://ping.fm/NcXuR

Though Honey & Holy Water has been #1 on the Vancouver folk chart & #7 on the national folk chart for ages I think lots of you haven’t heard my music. Take a listen & consider becoming a “fan”. http://ping.fm/pQ1qE

I give thanks for my healthy body as I watch friends and family face life threatening illness & I say a prayer for Dad, Ken & Victor.