For over a decade we have been sending out Christmas cards and yearly news to our friends, family, and fans of Emily Isaacson. It is one of our main goals of the holiday to connect with you all.

We yearly keep in contact with the 11 Stó:lō Nations and their chiefs. Emily Isaacson's book A Familiar Shore about aboriginal healing has been well received from Stó:lō professors at UFV to native homeless youth. The book was launched at The Reach Gallery Museum in conjunction with the exhibit on colonialism. Emily's websites to return the First Nations people to the roots of natural healing have received hundreds of thousands of visitors, and are making First Nations rights to aboriginal medicine a priority.

Emily Isaacson’s websites have attracted almost 1.5 million visits since 2006. Her poetry has touched the hearts of millions around the globe. If you have read a poem that is meaningful to you, please contact us at the WLI and share your endorsement of our message of healing.

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 Although poetry is unlike desert,

and prose is like the main course,

dive into some poetry this month

and taste its sweetness.

Emily Carr wrote in her books about the fields of wild lilies in early British Columbia. If you are wondering what a wild lily is, well it refers in this case to any earth-bound lily in contrast to the gilded lily or fleur-de-lis.

I never will leave you,

be I poor or of wealth,

as the sun crosses the sky,

without guile, without stealth.

And though the ashes remain of our years,

they are sacred because of our butterfly tears.

--Emily Isaacson

Victoriana