I love writing stories, including my dog blog. When you write, you live life twice. And I love hearing other people's stories. Stories can be powerful tools for helping people feel like they are not alone in this world.
A Tree Planting Photography Adventure by Sharon Krushel, Peace River, Alberta, 2019 Part 1 of this story is here May the Forest Be With You. Chapter 6 – The Purpose When I would mention my amazement at their strength and endurance, the tree planters would reply that it was difficult at first, but your body gets used to it. Their …
A Tree Planting Photography Adventure by Sharon Krushel, Peace River, Alberta, 2019 This is the story that inspired the card May the Forest Be With You. Forward I’d like to introduce you to some truly amazing people – a camp of incredibly hard-working healers of the forest in the Chinchaga wilderness of northern Alberta. Think of this as a …
A Comedy of Errors in Peace River’s history Researching a black-and-white photo can lead to the discovery of colourful stories! November 2018 was the 100th Anniversary of the completion of the railway bridge across the Mighty Peace River. I collaborated with Carson Murphy and Beth Wilkins at the Peace River Museum to create a commemorative “Peace Train” card with pictures …
While I was putting the finishing touches on the story for the back of the “Peace Train” card I designed with the Peace River Museum, I was contacted by David Lawrence at Peace River High School and asked if I would sing the 1971 song, “Peace Train” (by Cat Stevens) at the end of their Remembrance Day service. I had …
In 2015, my husband, Terry, and I flew to the annual Father’s Day Fly-in Breakfast. We took off from a farmer’s grass strip near Lac Cardinal in my husband’s homebuilt plane and landed on a lovely asphalt strip just outside of Fairview. There was a great variety of private aircraft to see and pilots eager to share their passion for …
To write down a story is to create permanent, colourful evidence that a person lived and breathed, laughed and loved. We need to write more. Stories are important. Everyone has stories. I invite you to submit a favourite story about your mother, whether she is young or old, alive or passed on to another realm. It can be a touching …
I have a love/hate relationship with the end-of-winter season. It’s dreadfully brown, muddy, miserable and volatile – warm and sunny one moment, and snowing and blowing freezing rain in your face the next. Spring is messy…like life is messy. I find my soul taking on the struggle for Spring to break through, searching the hills for barely-visible, courageous fuzzy sprouts …
There is a certain sadness associated with taking down the Christmas tree. And yet, if you wait until the first week in January, when the children have gone, there is also a sense of “It’s time.” Time to put on a favourite Christmas CD and turn the volume up and listen to Jacob Moon’s jazzy but haunting arrangement of “O …
I read a quote this morning by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe: “In a way nobody sees a flower really, it is so small, we haven’t the time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” There is a flower that inspires me to take time to stop and see and breathe in the miracle of …
THE DOG WHO INSPIRED MY ART – by Sharon Krushel, founder of DonaBonaCards.com It all started in the hills – which were alive with the sound of music. In 1996, I played the part of Maria in the Peace Players’ production of “The Sound of Music”. Little Gretl was played by Rae-anna Koenig, and she started taking voice …
