Cross-border perspectives

Turtle

Turtle on a log in Kelowna's Rotary Marsh

Writing and storytelling from both sides of North America’s 49th parallel and now living in my 34th home, I’ve learned to be something of a turtle. I carry home on my back.

That perspective is woven through my work, whether I’m crafting an entry for a blog or telling stories or leading a workshop. Sometimes I envy those with deep roots. On the other hand, we rolling stones lose some of our sharp edges, our cultural prejudices, our insistence that the narratives we cut our teeth on work for everyone.

Links to my blogs, writing samples, photography, and storytelling workshops are all on this Web site. Welcome to my cross-border world.

4 comments to Cross-border perspectives

  • Wendy

    I love your blog! Your writing just welcomes you in and wraps itself around you immersing one in the story or topic so wonderfully that you are a little sad when you come to the end of the piece yet heartened by the message you have brought us. Thank you.

  • sterling haynes

    I admire your perspective as well as your writing. I look forward to your blogging
    I am not a tweeter but do believe that ‘Wall Street’, at times, is very similar to the dictates of the Mafia. It does foment global unrest. “War is good for business”

    • cathryn wellner admin

      Brian Whetten wrote a good essay on financial terrorism for Huffington Post in April 2010.

      Part of what he writes:

      However, somewhere along the line, the culture of our financial industry became infected by a fundamentalist, destructive religion that worships profits above all else. This then supported actions that have caused a tremendous amount of suffering — 8 million jobs were lost in the U.S., there are now 15 million workers here who’ve been unemployed for a year or more, and the IMF estimates the global cost of the crisis at 11.9 trillion dollars.

      That’s a lot of suffering.

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