I have not posted for ages. A year ago , I became interested in making jewellery and in particular Buddhist Malas that are used for chanting. The malas have 108 beads. Each bead is used to visualize as one chants the individual mantra of a specific spiritual force such as Vajrasattva or Kuan Yin. I made so many malas that I went to craft fairs to recoup my costs. Here is a craft fair I attended last spring in Mckenzie that was held in the community centre hockey rink. Last year I applied for a $25,000 dollar federal government grant to purchase a portable television and editing studio to record the digital history of immigrant seniors to record their stories as a legacy project for their children and future generations. In March of 2017 , my funding proposal was approved and I now have one year to record the digital history of 30 seniors who reside in Calgary. By mid June the studio should be up and running. People being interviewed are between the ages of 60 and 105.
