Blogger, Artist, Social Media, Web Designer, Photographer- I blog about nouns-people, places and things, even when it's negative I try to put a positive spin on it. @tinawinterlikfb https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com
Hello, everyone! I have some wonderful news to share about my creative journey and the projects I’ve been pouring my heart into lately
The Alchemy of Ivy Mae
I’m thrilled to announce my novella, The Alchemy of Ivy Mae! This story is deeply personal and dedicated to my beloved sister. Spanning 266 pages, it’s a heartfelt exploration of transformation, resilience, and love. Although it’s currently scheduled to post online until May 2026, my ultimate goal is to turn this novella into a full-fledged book.
Another exciting project is Vanished Chronicles: The Billionaire Exodus, a gripping story that dives into the mysterious disappearance of billionaires in a world grappling with inequality and environmental collapse. This novella has been a thrilling challenge to write, and the journey comes to an end on January 30, 2025.
I’ve also updated The Changerz blog, which has been close to my heart for many years. This project delves into visionary storytelling, cosmic events, and themes of adaptation and hope. If you’ve followed along, you know this blog is rooted in a vision I had decades ago, which I animated in 2014. It explores transformative moments that challenge humanity to grow in unexpected ways.
These creative works are my way of exploring profound questions about humanity, resilience, and transformation. Whether through novellas, blogs, or animations, I aim to spark reflection and inspire change. Every story I write is a call to action—a way to connect with others and imagine a brighter, more compassionate future.
Thank you for being part of this journey with me. Your support means the world, and I can’t wait to share even more stories with you in the future.
Just listened a little to Christy Clark about the shadow flipping and homes. She is so off base- so many people are.
She talks about how these people bought homes and hung on to them 40
years and now they should be allowed to sell and make profits. This is
where EVERYONE is going wrong.
Before people passed the land on
to their children. Now there's nothing to pass, just a condo and there's
lots of rules with condos...so they sell and split the money and then
there is nothing left because it's not enough to buy any LAND.
NOT ONLY THAT why does everyone claim a right to that land when it's
Unceded Salish Territory...so no one here really owns the land
technically.
Why are people allowed to be so wealthy but not the
First Nations that were born and raised here or anywhere in BC. and
many places in Canada. It is a very complex problem.
Especially when people inherited land from family, when they look down on others who were not fortunate to receive that same.
This poverty issue can not be solved easily. But it's everyone human
right to have food and shelter - UN Declaration- article 25. and something has got to
give.
People need to stop being so selfish and actually share.
Unfortunately the last generation, most of the boomers were taught it's
all about them and they are "spending their kids inheritance" but that
is so so wrong and goes against everything. And they have taught it to
their kids and that's why we have kids valuing $4000 purses and $100,000
cars.
The values are lost, mixed up. She was saying people in
the stock market and google - if they made a lot of money you wouldn't
take that away...well, yes I would, because it's not right for some to
be super rich and others to be super poor. It's wrong.
You are not supposed to own land...we only supposed to use it ...and share...
Here's hoping the next generation wises up and sets things straight.
------------------------------------------------------------- But I need to add a bit. How did I come to my conclusions?
I have seen it happen and felt it personally and I try to warn others.
I saw and experienced in Bucerias, when I was first pregnant was Angel. We left Zipolite because it was just after 9/11 and it was a ghost town, it always is in Sept & October and no tourists.
So I went to Bucerias to do web design. While living there, the only place I could afford was on the OTHER side of the highway. All the wealthy Canadians and Americans own the beachfront homes.
How do I know, well I knew Bucerias when it really was a sleepy little village back in 1988 or so.
And at that time a man from the states (moved there because his wife had passed) and started a new life building and selling real estate. Boy did that town change!!!!!!
It was while living on that side of the highway I experienced many issues of poverty and it brought enlightenment and it humbled me.
Imagine my surprise upon returning to Canada, pregnant and alone (by choice and because of finances) that I would be plunged into poverty.
No one will hire a pregnant woman in CANADA. And the welfare system would only give me $525 a month.
And I am sure this is true today, nothing has changed.
I had tons of debt from years of education that I took on because WCB would not fund retraining for me because they didn't recognize tendonitis at that time as a life long chronic condition that would limit my work capabilities and I was also downsized by an evil corporation that actually in time dismantled the entire company. (I had been making $45,000 year- mostly o.t. and very long hours) but silly me I paid most of it to Student Loans, rent, commuting and food.
Anyways Fast Forward to now...I saw what has been happening hear for the last 15 years and I started warning people ...saying we need policies to stop people from selling all the land to rich people- let alone rich foreigners.
When I was living in Nelson I found out the true Nelsonites sold out and moved when the housing market skyrocketed and they because a tourist vacation town, that struggles with poverty because there is only business when the tourists come and many of them are Vancouverites and Calgarians that sold their homes and moved there...and vacation half the year there and half in Mexico.
And that is lovely and all but it wreaks havoc with the housing situation.
I had heard that Singapore had rules that you couldn't buy land or cars, you can only rent. I thought that was crazy but then I realized that most islands have rules like this. Rarotonga when I visited has a rule if you stay more than a month you pay. This is to protect the original people born and raised there.
In BC, do you know how people got the land?
Through disease. Smallpox wiped out most of the First Nations and they got it from the Europeans that came here. Whether on purpose or unwittingly they killed off most of the people and then forced them to reservations by withholding food and medicine. They also gave them alcohol, so they used addiction to get what they needed.
Once that happened they stole their children and forced them into Residential schools where horrific abuses happened to them. Many of their families turned to alcholism to cope with loosing their children, their language and spiritual rights. They were not allowed Potlatches. This was a vital part of their lives.
The First Nations believe you shared the land, you didn't own it. Anyways they got pummeled and now people think they are entitled to their lands because their parents and grandparents somehow recieved it. Or they have come here from somewhere else and invested.
There is huge inequality here.
In my sweet little Zipolite I was very very afraid this would happen to their land. That developers would come in and somehow break up the Ejido and it can be done, people are very sneaky.
Anyways, once it happens, that is it and if you look at Punta de Mita near Bucerias, that's exactly what happened. They bought everyone and moved them out of a gorgeous prime property so that they could put in resorts and golf courses.
Vancouver is like that on a grand scale. We've been bought and are being sold and people are caught in the middle and we have this huge poverty issue GROWING AND GROWING. And the rich are saying "Well isn't that too bad" "We are Canadians we should help" isn't that what Christie Clark said. But she is truly clueless on what it is to be homeless.
Until you actually experience poverty, joblessness, homelessness, hopelessness you will never truly get it. And I wouldn't wish that on anyone but you walk under the bridge and see the homeless people living there for the last 6 months...maybe a year...and HOW DO YOU PEOPLE working in the downtown WALK BY all the hungry homeless people EVERYDAY as you go to your jobs...how do you do that, day in and day out...as you buy your fancy suits, shoes, cars....
Don't you realize SOME THING IS WRONG!! VERY VERY WRONG!
Anyways when you begin to try and buy that house and you realize that you don't have enough because you have to pay off the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ of student load debt and the $$$$$ rent and the $$$$$ groceries and you wonder how you will ever have enough to have a home and a family...and perhaps you find yourself 32, 34, 37 and no baby and suddenly it's a baby or ??? and you go for it and are blessed, does anyone help you and find you a home and help you with food. NO!!!
And they wonder why women put off having kids and why these men are on the internet all the times searching for something....because we are lost.
We are lost souls trying to find our way back to the land.
It's definitely not an easy issue to fix. I could be if we stopped being fixated on status and wealth and mass production of food, energy and pollution.
Well that's my 2 cents worth.
I know I am not alone. I didn't do anything bad. Life keeps kicking me in the ass, I keep getting back up, sometimes people actually reach out and pull me up...but I often fall back into the poverty pit because as Bernie says it's "rigged system"
It's true, the banks have rigged it all, with everything, the land, the education, the politicians. We are all f___d up.
And when you have cities that care more about bike lanes and a street car, than food and gardens to feed people, when you have cities and governments and corporations that care more about flooding our "Bread basket" than going green and listening to the people, when you have governments and corporations that want to kill Canada's second largest salmon run...and there is no affordable housing, that women and children live in unhealthy situations due to not being able to support themselves...LOOK,LOOK into the FUTURE....
what do you see....LOOK TEN YEARS AHEAD....
Will Vancouver wake up and share the wealth and take care of the people, treat everyone equally, give us food and shelter...
or will we have a very dark scary MAD MAXX thing happening.
IT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DON'T MAKE CHANGES.
Change begins with you and me....please start today!
This is a prototype I created at Emily Carr, it's for a app/game that I was hoping to enlighten this generation to the changes that are necessary if human life is to continue on this planet. It's based on a vision I had. This is extremely simplistic but the message is simple but not easy. Great choices must be made. It will come down to good vs evil. It always does...please let good win. Share! Share the wealth. Change your ways....get others to change too. http://thechangerzz.blogspot.ca/
If you watch just one video today, LET IT BE THIS ONE!!
"Just months ahead of the next Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
which will take place in Paris, today's event has been convened in
support to the process that will ultimately result in an agreement
intended to succeed to the landmark Kyoto Protocol on reducing
greenhouse gas emissions.
Only by acting now and standing together can we achieve the
results we need in the time we have left. Only by acting now and
standing together can we tip the scales and change the course of
history.
Among the participants, Academy
Award-winning actor and long-time conservationist Robert Redford, and
15-year-old indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez, are
expected to join the broad call for action to energize multilateral
cooperation on climate change.
Raised in the Aztec tradition, Mr.
Roske-Martinez is Youth Director of a non-profit organization called Earth Guardians"
I have been following this young man and he is a brave, eloquently spoken, highly intelligent young person with a great deep awareness of the world need right now.
We need action from EVERYONE and his speech clearly demonstrates this.
These other videos are very eye opening as well. He is a great leader of youth already and I believe he will rise to great power because of his wisdom and deep respect for the earth. He has been on his path since he was 6. Maybe he will be the president one day, if presidents exist.
Who know what will happen in the near future if things do not turn around. As the earth breaks down we could see many changes good and bad.
I know in my heart it will happen. I had a vision many years ago and I have to have faith it will happen. Will it happen in my lifetime is the question I have? Who is that old lady in my vision, is it me? my child? her child? What does the future hold...only the future knows. But I do know we can't just sit around wait for someone else to do it, we each have to do our part! WHAT IS YOUR PART?
Can we change the World? Where do we
start? What can we accomplish? What is Urbanarium? And what does it have
to do with Vancouver? These are some of the questions proposed here and
a small collection of data to support it? Where it goes....we will find
out...won't we.... http://thechangerzz.blogspot.ca/p/the-facts.html
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If only they could grow their own gardens and then could sell and share the food. And then I remember about this man. We have all the technology, food just keeps getting more expensive and everything they talk about people living in a city can relate too!! The DTES is our BRONKS and we need to CHANGE that. ARE YOU ONE OF THE CHANGERZ?
Well just a quick post as I have to get ready for bed. I was telling Angel about Vanuatu and the terrible cyclone that hit there. I was explaining they had some of the strongest winds ever recorded.
I told her how in BC here we have had the 2 warmest winters in 120 years.
I told her that it's up to her generation to turn things around because they are going to be the most affected. It's a lot, she is just 12, so I showed her these links and all I can do is hope and pray she will take advantage, that you will all look, learn and share. That somehow we can all form a community and work on making this place a better world for all living creatures.
So please check out and share. If you are teacher I hope you will share this with your students. If you are a parent, I hope you will share it with your kids.
Who are The Changerz? We are! You & Me!
Here's the animation- Sadly- we as a community sucked at Earth Hour, I sure hope this apathy isn't a sign of the times.
