09/30/2025
Every Child Matters 🧡
September 30th marks Orange Shirt Day, a time of remembrance, truth, and reconciliation. For me, this day is deeply personal. My grandmother attended St. Joseph's Indian Day School in Smithers, B.C. Her experience, like so many others, was marked by silence, resilience and deep anger. Now, more than ever, as the world feels uncertain and heavy, I believe in the healing power of gathering. To break bread together. To share stories. To listen, to learn, and to walk forward with kindness. Storytelling has always been medicine and it is through ceremony, craft, and conversation that we begin to understand our collective shared history.
At RavenSong, storytelling is at the heart of everything we do. As part of this journey, I’m honoured to introduce a new chapter in our artisan storytelling gift boxes. Inspired by Indigenous traditions of gathering, nourishment, and reciprocity: this gift box invites connection through small and breaking bread to hold intentional and deep space for conversations. I believe this is important As as a daughter of first peoples of this land and a newcomer to Canada. This Orange Shirt Day, may we pause to honour survivors, remember those who never came home, and commit ourselves to learning together.
🧡 Every Child Matters. My Grandmother Mattered, I Matter and my children matter. Everyday my sisters and I continue to be the voice and legacy of our grandmother who raised us and share her story.
