by Sarah Weaver | Jan 12, 2026 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
I read this poem recently at a solstice event, and referenced it on my Coastlines blog today (https://linesfromthecoast.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-light-returns.html). I’ve had requests for it, so am reprinting it here. Because of the formatting, I’ve...
by Sarah Weaver | Dec 12, 2025 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
I posted back in April about a talk I gave to Capital Unitarians about my journey into poetry. At the end of November I gave a version of the same talk to the larger Unitarian congregation in Victoria, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Victoria. I talked...
by Sarah Weaver | Jul 23, 2025 | Commentaries
A little over fifteen years ago I spent the last week of 2009 with a group of about 30 others, being tutored by Joanna Macy in facilitation techniques for her pivotal “Work that Reconnects”. That time with Joanna was formative for me, and for the work I...
by Sarah Weaver | Apr 7, 2025 | Commentaries
It’s hard to believe it’s been over six months since my last post on this site! It’s already April again, National Poetry Writing Month. And in Victoria, spring is emerging, just in time to whet poetic appetites. Rhododendron blooming, early April....
by Sarah Weaver | Jul 5, 2024 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Since my last post in early May, I’ve been working on poetry. I had the opportunity to spend a day with Metis poet Conor Kerr (https://www.conorkerr.ca/). Kerr’s latest book is a collection of poems about how we all have roots in the “old gods”...