INTERWEAVINGS
Dear
Followers, and Newbies Stumbling Here:
It may
look as if I've abandoned Earthabridge, but really, I've just been
busy.
Right
now I'm in the midst of writing a novel, working title Shine, about
"the third coming of age," set in BC and in Ireland. I'm in
the down dip after finishing the first draft and am busy researching
before going back to revise, which is really my FAVOURITE part of
writing, making it better.
But I
have also been busy in the last several months working on topics
which have interested me for years. Some of these I've posted in
other blogs.
LINKS:
Jian
Ghomeshi's intro today about the neighbourhood reading map of Toronto
challenged me. Last fall I completed a long 100-slide Powerpoint on
CanLit: A Passion For Place, with representative works from each
province and territory augmented with regional visual art. Because of
copyright issues, I have not posted this presentation, but I did put
the list of books and writers up at a blog
http://CanLitPlace.blogspot.ca/ If you know of a place to share
Powerpoints, I'm interested. My audience for this collection is new
Canadians, Canadians educated elsewhere, readers who have not yet
explored this beautiful land and its artists, literary and visual.
My other
passion has long been HUMAN RIGHTS, and especially the human rights
and treaty rights of First Nations in Canada. I have posted my
Creative Non-Fiction book DANCING WITH GHOSTS: A CROSS-CULTURAL
EDUCATION at http://dancingwithghostsaneducation.blogspot.ca/
I am
passionate about THE TRUTH ABOUT RECONCILIATION and attempt to share
my opinions on Twitter @Earthabridge and by sharing links to blogs
where I write about this important issue in Canada today.
WE ARE
ALL ACCOMPLICES http://weareallaccomplices.blogspot.ca/ and
IMAGINE
CANADA 2017 (our sesquicentennial)
http://imagineCanada2017.blogspot.ca/
My
interest in HUMAN RIGHTS and in LITERATURE has intertwined in AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL's human rights reading book club. Because they haven't
got the interactive sharing pages working yet, I am posting my
reactions on a separate blog at HUMAN WRITES ACTIVIST. The three
Canadian novels I have read for this project are Joseph Boyden's
THREE DAY ROAD, Steven Galloway's THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO, Esi Edugyan's HALF-BLOOD BLUES, and (still
reading) Dionne Brand's WHAT WE ALL LONG FOR.
http://humanwritesactivist.blogspot.ca/
And
finally, my interest in family history and genealogy inspired me to
accept the Book of ME challenge, a weekly prompt which I post at
GENEALOGY PROMPTS http://genealogyprompt.blogspot.ca/
I still
check my e-mail at earthabridge@gmail.com and more frequently at
jmbridgeman@telus.net.
