People travel from around the world to visit the incredible gardens in Victoria. We're visiting Butchart Gardens again today. I thought you might enjoy this video from July 2025. Where is the most beautiful place you've ever visited?

Today is Thanksgiving Sunday, and it’s my Dad’s heavenly birthday. Six years ago, on October 11, 2020, I wrote a reflection about my relationship with him. At the time, I was recognizing how much of my life I’d spent seeking his love, approval, and acceptance, and how my own inner work had helped me see our relationship differently. My Dad married my Mom and adopted my sister Margot and me when I was three. Because of him, I also have my brother Greg. There are so many layers to a life together, and not all of them are easy to understand while we’re living them. One thing I’ve come to appreciate is that love doesn’t always arrive in the form we expect or wish for. Sometimes it takes years, distance, loss, and a willingness to examine our own stories before we recognize what a relationship has taught us. Today I’m driving to Vancouver to celebrate Thanksgiving and another family birthday. My cousin’s wife shares this date with Dad. On Tuesday, my Aunt and I will travel to Vancouver Island to visit my brother and his beautiful partner. There is something lovely about spending four hours driving and remembering traveling these high mountain passes with my parents. And feeling grateful for the people who are no longer physically here, like my parents and my sister, while celebrating the people who are. What if gratitude isn’t about being thankful only for the moments we cherish? What if it is also about recognizing how the complicated ones have shaped our capacity to love, understand, and appreciate the lives we’ve been given. Happy heavenly birthday, Dad. Thank you for loving me in your way, and for being part of the woman I’ve become. As you think about the people who have shaped your life, whose love have you come to understand differently over time? Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends. 💜 Trust what’s yours, Pamela

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If Sunday’s Blessing Ball of Bliss story brought something to mind—a memory, a question, or an idea you’ve kept putting aside—give it one line in your journal. “This is something I’d like to give more room to…” On October 22, I’m opening a space to explore what keeps returning, what has energy, and what wants more room through Sacred Writing and conversation. "Something Is Stirring" is a free live workshop. Thursday, October 22 · 10:30–11:30 AM PT · Live on Zoom Save your seat: https://pamelalynch.com/stirring

You have an idea you keep returning to. Then you sit down to explore it, and the questions begin: Is this worth developing? Has someone already said it? Who am I to share it? That moment is part of what we’ll explore in Essence to Expression. Through Sacred Writing, inquiry, and intuitive coaching, you’ll begin recognizing your own creative rhythm—what draws your attention, what interrupts your trust, and what helps you stay with an idea long enough to develop it. You can arrive with a book, a talk, a teaching, or simply something you want to understand. You don’t need a chosen project. We begin Thursday, October 29, meeting weekly on Zoom from 10:30–11:30 AM PT for seven weeks. $497 founding cohort · Maximum 10 people Explore Essence to Expression → Think of an idea you keep returning to. What draws you back to it?