i took an adventure today in the december sun.

'tis what i saw.

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women Day

Every life is precious, no matter what social class, colour, creed, sex, income, religion, culture, what have you.

Violence

Must

Stop.

Ground School complete or as much needed/completed until much closer to my SPL.
Darn weather!

Tonight our Galiano Land and Community Housing Trust EGM,  members and general community passed a motion for our Land Lease project to go ahead with the project and purchase the 10 acres by Page Drive. Our re-zoning has gone through a first hearing and results are promising. Micro-grants are in progress and already we've had reports of warmer, improved living conditions for people in our community.
All this hard work paying off!
All in steady progress with my personal plans.
And now that all the big events and responsibilities have been taken care of I can focus on getting ready for a very interesting and productive year.....at least until 12/12/12.

Takin' the Controls...

Galikat will soon be back up in action!
Taking the controls of my life, flyin' high, high flyin'.

Here's one of the many things that keeps me from YOU!
Galiano Land and Community Housing Trust...yeuh, that's us, cuttin' up red tape like machete!!

Water Bomber!!!!

Me and my classmate Aaron posing/squinting in the sun with a WWII era water bomber!

Inside the Water Bomber

Saddle up, hokies!

my words can be found in two other locations
for those who miss galikat action
i salute anyone who finds either!
all silliness and random short inspired things have transpired
treasures for those light of heart.

Still working on the Site Overhaul...

Hello.
I've been so busy. I've got so much content to upload sometimes it's overwhelming!
Until I can get some time to do that, entries are going to be sparse for the next week or so.
But by Christmas holidays this should be revamped and ready for a new year!
Oh what will this new year bring?
How will this year end?
It's up to me!
How do you plan to carry on through
and what will you do?
love you love you love you.

Occupy Sturdies Bay - Happening again this Saturday!

I support OWP Vancouver.

1/2 of Ground School...Complete.

this is all you need to know right now

Nina Simone

Right now it feels like you're singing this for me.

Half the ground school done

and the real fun is just beginning!

best quote of the day today!

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes a lot of your time. And what do we get at the end of it? Death! What's that...a bonus? I think the life cycle is backwards. You should die first and get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young. You get your first gold watch. You go to work. You work forty years or until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol - you party. You get ready for High School. You go to Grade School. You go back into the womb spend 9 months floating... and finish off as an Orgasm! - George Carlin

final thoughts of the day

thoughts for tomorrow

Mom, this is meant to be inspiring...

Bad-ass pilots. 

Check this out though,

Seriously.

I hope I never have to do this,

but damn I hope I'll be able!

a(wo)men

breaking stereotypes.

Happy One Year Anniversary GaliKat!

One year and 2900 views. Thanks everyone! After a year of jumping in and figuring stuff out, I'm starting to get the hang of this blogging thing. A picture update later, but here are some of the women who have inspired me this year..

Queen Tamara of Georgia
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
Queen Nzinga
Rani of Jhansi
Margaret Thatcher
Amelia Earhart

and for inspiration, here are some quotes...

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart


"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things." - Amelia Earhart


"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship." - Amelia Earhart


Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

The Ranee was remarkable for her bravery, cleverness and perseverance; her generosity to her Subordinates was unbounded. These qualities, combined with her rank, rendered her the most dangerous of the rebel leaders.
 -- General Sir High Rose, on the Rani of Jhansi

for strength, hope, and safe travels over water

for all my sisters

Certavi et Vici 

I fought, I conquered. 

FOR ME.

Astarte

here.

second flight alright

Kilo Bravo

c-172

nobody up here but us clouds

on laughter-silvered wing

coming in for landing...

Did I ever tell you how much fun it is learning to fly and becoming a pilot?

aWOmen, aWOmen.

Thank you, Sarah. I don't know where you found this but...seriously..!!

Thanksgiving 2011

There is so much I am thankful for.
This year, every year, every day and moment!
It was my 4th? here on the Island and to celebrate with both new and old friends was so special.
I also think we've gone a little Hallo-crazy over here....almost every event I've attended over here in the past few months has involved costumes or silly games, usually unplanned...but here are some of the pictorial highlights as well!

and the foolishness...!

the end!

First Flying Experience

My first flight of many to come....in pictures and video!

Jessa Clare, sky queen (instructor)!

my chariot - Cessna 172

<3

Thank you Island Pacific Flight Acadamy!

Japanese Love Poems

I am uploading very awesome pictures and videos from my day... to post tomorrow!
Too excited to delay.

But for now...a few years back I received a book of poetry entitled
Love Poems from the Japanese
Translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Edited by Sam Hamill

Here are some of the poems I love from this book.

Who knows
that in the depth of the ravine
of the mountain of my hidden heart
a firefly of my love is aflame.
- Abutsu-Ni


Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.
-Kakinomoto No Hitomaro


The colored leaves
Have hidden the paths
On the autumn mountain.
How can I find my girl,
Wandering on ways I do not know?
-Kakinomoto No Hitomaro


Cats making love in the temple
But people would blame
An man and wife for mating in such
a place.
-Kawai Chigetsu-Ni


Doesn't he realize
that I am not
like the swaying kelp
in the surf,
where the seaweed gatherer
can come as often as he wants.
-Ono No Komachi


Love me. At this moment we
Are the happiest
People in the world.
-Marichiko


Come at last to this point
I look back on my passion
And realize that I
Have been like a blind man
Who is unafraid of the dark.
-Yosano Akiko


Some day in six inches of
Ashes will be all
That's left of our passionate minds,
Of all the world created
By our love, its origin
And passing away.
- Marichiko


Why should I be bitter
About someone who was
A complete stranger
Until a certain moment
In a day that has passed.
-Saigyo


From the beginning
I knew meeting could only
End in parting, yet
I ignored the coming dawn
And I gave myself to you.
-Fujiwara No Teika


Life, like a thread piercing
through jewels,
if you must break,
break now!
If I live any longer
I will weaken and show my
hidden love.
-Princess Shikishi


I hold your head tight
Between my thighs and
Against your mouth and
Float away forever in
An orchid boat
On the River of Heaven.
-Marichiko


I shall hide myself
within the moon of the spring night,
after I have dared to reveal
my love to you.
-Chino Masako

crescent moon tonight

the opposite of lazy?

I LOVE AND MISS...this blog?
I really do, actually. So many things to post on you, Galikat,
so much fun and informative content, interesting pictures...
this blog is due for a complete over-haul and tidy-up.
Just gimme a lil' bit more time...
PS it's almost the 1 year anniversary of this blog.
you really don't know how much has happened this year...

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

ahh, the moonlight has found me again
and i love CocoRosie.

mmm sort of like this,
but with...MORE.

this is how i feel most of the time.

...
you all don't even KNOW how many serious posts I have up my sleeves.

thanks Dan for introducing me to this

I like to watch this from time to time.

Cats are sometimes mislabeled as lazy.
I am not lazy,
just off doing super-stealth feline things!
mrawr.

my friend found this poem in a book

on a friend's shelf.

a reminder!
tonight it smelled of winter.
busy bees must turn into industrious ants
to become honey badgers on cold nights.

feeling obtuse and lovely
even if i have a lil cold or something.
life is good.
enjoy.

updatez tomorrow.

september 24th, 2011

misty morning.
the fog is here
and i am lost
again.

i could post a silly song
but that would be too revealing, i think.
to start the day on a good note....

"Child, the key is to love your wounds" - Sarah "Sadie" Delaney, civili rights activist

"Every day is a gift, even if it sucks" - Sherry Hochman

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Ben Franklin

go here!

i know i promised pictures

but you know me.
i was looking for another song but came across

wow. If I was not galiKat from now I would have been this man from the 1950's.
Can you imagine if our beach parties were more like this?!?
There are so many good dancers in that video...

Nicola and Kevin growing amazing food in Downtown St. John's, NL. I wish my memory card hadn't been nearly full when I went to say farewell before flying on back to the west coast. So proud...so yeah! You Can Do It!

This is Matthias ClearSky. He is one of the best famers around. This is only one of this man's plots, besides tending a beautiful goat herd, chickens...I am also proud to call him a friend (cider bowl!). He teaches me a lot about food production and supplies the Island with delicious foods. Here are some more pictures I took yesterday while lending a hand.

the end!