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Category Archives "Being"

Remembering Burns on a Juneuary morning

June 22, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Being, Bowen, Featured No Comments

Our back door, created by my friend and fellow islander Burns Jennings who died in February. We asked him to design a door that signifies a crossing into our family home. He was proud of this one. “Every day is perfect if, when you wake, you hear birdsin the garden…”- Ann Margaret Lim, “Birdsong of Shaker Way” That’s what we call it traditionally on Bowen Island, Juneuary. It is a traditional period of rain and cooler weather that drenches the coast for a while in June, around the summer solstice. Every year, there are a few hot days in May …

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A heartbreaking work of staggering grace

June 5, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Being, Bowen, Featured One Comment

Over the water from our little island is Horseshoe Bay, the bustling ferry terminal where boats sail to Nanaimo, the Sunshine Coast and Nexwlélexwm/Bowen Island, where I live. Last week a four-year-old boy, Leonardo Machado, and his mother were hit by a bus in a tragic accident while they were waiting to catch the bus home from their visit to Bowen. Leonardo was killed and his mother Silvana remains in critical but stable condition in hospital. There has been an outpouring of grief and love and support for Leaonardo’s family, and for Clineu, Leonardo’s father. There is a fundraiser for …

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Encountering natural beauty

June 3, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Being, Bowen, Featured, Uncategorized 3 Comments

A photo of the STEVE I saw last night. If you are reading this as an email, click the post title to see the image. You have to chase the beautiful things sometimes. Be in the right place, have a bit of luck, being open to a bit of surprise. On Sunday I was really sick with some kind of blow-through flu/cold that laid me out all weekend. But I managed to drag myself out of bed later in the day and get a walk in. One of my favourite walks on my home island takes me down a little …

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Touching home

April 20, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Being, Bowen, Featured, Travel

It’s late April on the coast. Huge flocks of geese are finding their way north making a beeline from their stopping grounds in the Fraser River estuary and heading straight over our island as they follow the inlets and mountains on their journey to Alaska. The sea lions are still out there barking and normally their presence would be a sure sign of spring as they come in with the herring, dragging all the mammal eating killer whales with them. But this year has been weird and we’ve had a herd (pride? flotilla? complaint?) of sea lions in Mannion Bay …

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Five years ago

March 13, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Being, Complexity, Featured One Comment

The door of our local pharmacy, a couple of days after the COVID-19 health emergency was declared in March 2020. Journal entries from March 12 and 13, 2020, remembering the first days of lock down and the day that the world changed. I started keeping a decisions journal to track the things I was doing and why. Here are the first two days of entries. March 12, 2020 Newxlelexwm Bowen Island. Cancellations. Of everything. First coaching call with a client about how to bring their events online. Systems awareness helps us to bring our capacities on line. Me. Feeling generally …

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