#alderhill

[sleepvines]

What happens when a handful of average folk have had enough of missing persons cases, lost pets, and stolen goods, and decide it's time to form a secret club for fairy hunting?

Very bad things.

The Greyhound Circle was nothing more than a club of Alderhill's most staunchly anti-fairy residents at the time (the 60's). They genuinely believed that if they braved the wilderness to figure out how their enemy ticked, they could purge a good swath of fairies from the woods in the name of safety. They were wrong. So wrong in fact, that most of their members never escaped the Hill, and the few that made it out alive never set foot in the forest again.

The conflict they stirred went unbeknownst to the village, but the impact it had on the Hill and her people made history. Even with their small headcount they cleaved a brutal wound through the fairies' domain. And it cleaved through them in turn. On both sides things have undoubtedly changed, but only the Hill's people remember.

[umberpath]

finally got outside to draw and take nice pictures of the sketchbook :-]

[sleep-writes]

reread a fun chapter of the ol' WIP, faith in writing restored ✨

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[soberisdope]

Meet Elaine Alec

wáy x̌ast sx̌əlx̌ʕált

My name is telxnitkw, it translates into “Standing by Water” and was given to me on the day I was born. I am Syilx and Secwepemc although I also have roots with the Colville and Nez Perce nations.

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Elaine Alec (she/her) is an author, political advisor, women’s advocate and spiritual thought leader and teacher and is a direct descendant of hereditary chiefs, Pelkamulaxw and Soorimpt.

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For over two decades, Elaine has been leading expert in Indigenous community planning, health advocacy and creating safe spaces utilizing Indigenous approaches and ceremony. She is the author of “Calling My Spirit Back” a book which links an extremely personal examination of lived experience to a much broader overview of serious national sociological concerns, accompanied by tangible steps to approach them.

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Alec was a founding member of the Comprehensive Community Planning Mentorship Initiative in British Columbia. She is a founding partner at Alderhill Planning Inc. and is a regular speaker at conferences and workshops on the topic of Indigenous planning, governance, healing and trauma informed approaches in planning.

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She is involved in the Sexual Harassment, Advice, Response and Prevention for Work Places Advisory Committee, a board member with the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives (CCPA-BC) and recently completed a 3-year term as the Union of BC Indian Chiefs Women’s Representative where she advocated for Indigenous women and girls safety through facilitating safe spaces to plan and drive policy change at various levels of government.

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Elaine resides in Kamloops, British Columbia with her husband Ryan Day and is the proud mom of Kyle Maxakn Alec, Phoenix Maxaknitkw Alec and Teslin Pelkamulaxw Alec.

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Calling My Spirit Back is an exceptional piece of Canadian writing by an Indigenous author that addresses our particular period in Canadian history when the conversations about systemic racism and abuse of women and the historical and ongoing trauma of our First Nations are finally starting to resonate beyond their typical boundaries.

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This book is welcome and much needed contribution to that dialogue, not only in its vivid details but in its approach to healing.

It is a truly moving work that links an extremely personal examination of lived experience – told with startling honest and precision – to a much broader overview of serious national sociological concerns, accompanied by tangible steps to create spaces for diversity and inclusion based on Indigenous knowledge and teachings.

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Her honesty is authentic and at times heartbreaking and her candor regarding the ownership of her own failings as she faces her challenges is rare and vivid.

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Calling My Spirit Back is Elaine’s first book. She is a partner and owner with Alderhill Planning Inc. and works with Indigenous communities across Canada to promote healing in planning, governance and.

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Elaine shares much of her work on her YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/elainealec and her website www.elainealec.com and her social media accounts www.instagram.com/elaine_alec_writer_speaker and www.facebook.com/elainemackensiealec

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Calling My Spirit Back is published by Tellwell Talent (June 27 2020)

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Available: www.elainelaec.com. Amazon, Kindle, Indiebound, Indigo Chapters, Rakuten Kobo, Smashwords, Apple Books

https://anchor.fm/soberisdope/episodes/Calling-My-Spirit-Back-with-Elaine-Alec-Healing-of-IndigenousFirst-Nation-Communities-egn4al

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[sleepvines]

I think it's finally time to craft a guy who will annoy the shit out of marlow

[sleepvines]

an absolutely excellent lil' rendition of Cillian I commissioned from @donnyclaws! It's thrilling to see him in such a different style :]

[sleepvines]

hollon I need another set of eyes. is this an improvement? I'm wondering how much of the editing is making things better and how much of it is sliding pieces around. yellow is the new one -Hatchet

[sleepvines]

editing today is going well. I realized how much I dislike the opening scene so I'm modifying it a little. I don't know if it's just over familiarity with the text or the discomfort of reading a petty argument play out but the tweaks are helping -winn

[sleepvines]

he's earned good days

[sleepvines]

I've decided we're doing a draft three of Alderhill, even if it's only small edits. For one I would like to see it now that we haven't been staring at it for months, and two... I need a consistent hobby again. -🍂

[sleepvines]

a Cillian hoofing it and some mostly post-story doodles while I reanimate my interest in the story

[sleepvines]

hey there, Cuckoo

[sleepvines]

Third draft vs first draft

Things are improving, I think! -🍂

[sleepvines]

Awkward Conversations

Took a second attempt at this one, now I'm finally happy with it! I haven't done any full color work in a while so this was fun

It doesn't portray any of the written scenes, just an unspecified argument