{ Weekend } Food and Film
Happy Friday!
Wow, what a week! From flooding to blizzards – we’ve experienced our share of crazy weather out here in little Comox Valley. Not the best week to be on the roads commuting to school…. I’m happy to be devoting some quality indoor time today to the cleaning of my house – with little car-time.
Here is Jackie Connelly with a recipe for cozy-morning granola:
RECIPE: from “Baked: New Frontiers in Baking” by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
VIA: TheAmateurGormet.com
WEBSITES:
www.JackieConnelly.com
www.TerraBreads.com
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“WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS” - Local Screening this Weekend.
You may have heard about a film called “Who Does She Think She Is?” that will show here in Courtenay on Sunday at the museum. The film is a documentary exploring the challenges women face when it comes to their fulfilment. We are so often asked to choose between parenting, career or creative desires. This film explores the idea that perhaps we do not need to choose. I’m eager to see this film. I know it will inspire awakening thoughts and inspirational conversations.
The battle to balance my own ambition, crazy ideas, creativity, marriage and parenting has been a bit messy. Sometimes I feel as if I’m barley hanging in there. (Not alone in this, I’m sure). But at the same time I need to be doing this because it is WHO I AM. I can lay-low for only a short while, allowing myself a reprieve to recharge I suppose. But it doesn’t take long before the drive inside of me starts brewing up ideas and creativity in almost unmanageable quantities.
I was asked to be at this screening as an example of a local women who is doing just as the film is suggesting – refusing to choose between parenting, career or creative desire. I will be there along side some other local women whom I highly admire. This is a great honour, and quite humbling, as my journey with this lifestyle has been openly challenging (such is the nature of “blogging”).
There were limited tickets for this event, but there may be a few spaces left. For tickets, you can visit this website: http://lianne.typepad.com/womenart/
Doors open at 1:30. Film starts at 2:15.
