Book Writing: Day Eight (on the Mainland)

Anna Vandas

• Interviewed the lovely Anna Vandas at Wendell’s in Fort Langley. She is a singer, painter and dancer - making her living as full-time artist. What a beautiful woman inside and out. I first met Anna through her husband Dave a couple of summers ago. Her and I have never hung out before, but after one 2-hour talk over java (french vanilla latte for me and caramel frappuccino for her) she felt like such a kindred spirit. Afterwards, I dropped her off at the Dance Barn studio, which I had always wanted to see in person.

See Anna and the Dance Barn troupe in action at their performance:

Freiheit {Freedom} May 2, 3 & 4 at the Chief Sepass Theatre (9096 Trattle Road, Langley.) Go here for tickets.

• Visited with my dear friend Keela Keeping and dreamed together about what God wants to do with “In the company of beautiful people…” We are talking about doing a documentary and other media elements for the project; talked about getting funding for the project, etc. Keela always encouraged me to dream big because God is BIG.
• Stopped by the Christian Info Society office in Langley to see how the layout of Options turned out. After working with Darian Kovacs from canadafire on the first issue of salt. magazine, Christian Info approached us to partner with them to rebrand their magazine, Options. So salt. is no longer, but we are working hard to be all that we dreamed of for salt. (young, savvy, thoughtful, challenging, Canadian) and more. My role is as Associate Editor with the mag for at least the next year.

[Weekend @ home]:

• Had an amazing weekend mostly spent at a Vision Retreat for our local church: Every Nation. It was the most honest, transparent, transformative meeting I have ever been a part of with our community in seven years. Michael and I feel rejuvenated, inspired and full of hope for our church community and a healthy weight of responsibility for the part God is calling us to play there.
• Saturday night we hung out with Avital, Chris and Jeff at Spanish Banks. What a gorgeous evening.
• We completed the day by watching the web-release Cult of Sincerity. I fell asleep before it was over.
• Sunday morning Michael cooked eggs, sausages and pancakes for breakfast. Yum. I had a great hang out with Megan in English Bay before heading back to Bowen in the afternoon.