A couple of weeks ago, I pulled a card from a Chakra Insight Oracle deck by Caryn Sangster. The question I asked before drawing it was, “What should I focus on as I move forward through this period of my life?” The card read, Honesty. In the past three months, I’ve been pulling more cards … Continue reading Personal Myth-Making 101
When I checked in on my website recently, I was jarred by the contrast between the direction my writing took over the past year and where it left off on March 1, 2025, the date of my last two posts. I created this website in late December 2024, after three months of revising a hope … Continue reading Hey World, Look What I Made!
As the sun rose on the third day, the young woman felt her power return. A new strength surged through every cell of her body and she again heard the gentle hum of The Mothers’ chant. There were nine of them gathered in the room and their voices rose and fell in a gentle murmuration. … Continue reading The Elora Sky Sanctuary
At some point between its release date of April 17, 2020, and the following September, I watched Bali: Sharma Springs, an episode from Apple TV’s documentary series Home. I know this, because it inspired the setting of a series of novel chapters I wrote over the Labour Day long weekend of the same year. During … Continue reading How Bali’s Sharma Springs Inspired My Eco-Fiction Novel
I could tell you that my recent decision to read as many books about trees as possible is solely based on the fact that I’m conducting research for my latest novel. That would certainly be a reasonable argument, since my book is about a 22-year-old woman whose dream is to reforest the world. To help … Continue reading Discovering Trees: A Year of Reading for Reforestation
I think we are most ourselves when we float along the stream of life in a state of non-doing, in a state of allowing, of not trying to control the outcome of anything and with no destination in mind other than a gentle idea of how we want to feel when we arrive. I know I … Continue reading We Are. Here.
Monique Chénier 