Writing & Heart Blog

NEW: 03/2022: Read my new piece – following a path through books and libraries – on p. 56, “For the Love of Books” in ON SITE REVIEW 40: the architect’s library

NEW 02/22/2022, Read about Care for the caregiver in Voices5 book – in Voices of the 21st Century: Conscious Caring Women: new entry in my blog tells you about “Memory and Acceptance, Lessons from my mother” (02/02/2022)

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02/27/2021, Heart story in Voices4 book: Voices of the 21st Century: Resilient Women Who Rise and Make a Difference; PURCHASE

In my Heart Blog, you’ll find stories shared by my Heart sisters of Women@Heart of CWHHC, about Bicuspid Aortic Valve – Open-heart surgery survivor at UOHI, Heart genetics, Caregivers, living with uncertainty

01/2021, Heart story video: I was convinced to tell my story of open-heart surgery and living with uncertainty for 27 years, and learn to thrive, in the Video interview with publisher of Voices of the 21st Century, Gail Watson (11 mins)

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Genetics

Belonging – Genealogy/family genetics – comparative DNA testing plus life-long genealogy research of mostly Celtic, French and Québecois (See “Watson Family Tree” on MyHeritage.com; “Watson Family Tree” on Ancestry.com; and DNA tree on 23andme.com) – August 27, 2021, RIP Cousin Margaret Mary Salome O’Neill Timmons (a proud 100 years and 10 weeks old); June 23, 2021, RIP Uncle Redmond Charles Hamilton Quain (93 years young).

Still kicking! Aunt Mary Watson Hayes Burns, 94; Mum, Joan Wendy Lynn Quain Watson, 87

I continue my twins research and art installation ideas. Connected to genealogy are the Generations art installations (see Portfolio page)

08/2021, Writing video: Why do I write? Karen Joan Watson – Interview “on writing” (20 mins) by Canadian Military Spouses Book Club 

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Geography

On the Eco-art page, I tell you about making these installations like “Crown of Thorns,” “River Stone Work, Ireland,” with environmental awareness, a sense of place and belonging, language, geology, growing awareness of indigenous peoples’ history and culture (see also About)

NEW 03 and 01/2022, As an enthusiastic artist-participant featured in Tree Songs 3 and 4 – tree festival, here is my video presentation about growing up in the Gatineau Hills in the summers, making things, and the “Crown of Thorns” (1o mins)

On the Portfolio page, you can see photos of my Eco-art / landart, and other artwork like Generations art installations

2021, Eco-art and heart story video: Over the years, this arts video interviewer has taped me making eco-art in the Gatineau Hills. Here she interviews me from her home in Europe: Video interview by artsvlogger-Multiple Arts: “Karen Joan Watson, Eco-Artist and Author, Ottawa, Canada” (45 mins)

2003, I love this eco-art (ecoart) book, which explains the philosophy of landart and eco-art. My “Crown of Thorns” installation around a majestic old maple on trail #5 at the Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area is featured in Art for Earth’s Sake: The Millennium Project