Community Salons

Meet Ocean, , fashion designer, gym bro that you might not expect, a really good, genuine person that’s doing things. Really cool things. That he loves, including being asked to participate in NYC Fashion Week. This was my first time meeting and cutting Oceans hair and it was truly a pleasure. So often “young people” don’t get their flowers. Here are your flowers, Ocean. Keep doing what your doing. This is a wild world and it’s all yours for the taking. Kill New York. We’re all rooting for you. Shout out to Oceans folks for helping to create such a lovely person and Happy Nee Year to all!

Meet Kele!
Kele, pronounced like Pele, came to Community Salons from not too far away.
Kele is great, so nice and so smart.
Kele is on tour starting tonight. Vancouver tonight and making their way to Victoria with stops along the way, including Duncan, Gabriola, Nanaimo among others. I really like Kele. There aren’t too many like , I believe, living in reality and caring in real time and on the right side of “WOKE” (the left) Kele cares about you. That you can feel. Kele is also a talent that must heard. Give a follow and a listen and your support. I do.
Here’s a blurb not from me:
Kele Fleming is a deeply gifted singer-songwriter who resides in British Columbia. Kele (pronounced Kelly) gracefully weaves the vulnerability of traditional folk with the raw power of rock and roll. Her voice is a thunderstorm of emotion and grit that generously pours into the souls of her listeners. Her music is packed to the brim with complex musicality, tender lyricism and contagious passion. Kele’s work explores deeply personal themes that she executes flawlessly. Her music is similar to the likes of female powerhouses such as Neko Case, Lucinda Williams and Kate Bush yet her sound is entirely fresh. Kele’s is armed with ferocious lyrics, a mesmerizing voice and a profound aptitude for instrumentation- the combination is rare and refreshing.
Thank you, Kele. It’s such a pleasure.

The people I met are not the ones I was thinking needed me. A HUGE shout out to Project Reconnect for helping me shift my thinking on who’s out there and who might need our help. It’s heartbreaking and inspiring and hopeful. Here is an exert from Vic News. Link in bio.

In the spirit of assisting the homeless, Project Reconnect opened its doors for its one-stop annual fair, offering unhoused folks access to free services, food, resources, and referrals.

Downtown Service Providers and the Alliance to End Homelessness in the Capital Region (AEHCR) hosted this year’s event Wednesday (Oct. 9) at Victoria’s Central Baptist Church.

Silvia Ceacero, CEO of AEHCR, explained that this year’s fair, typically held in August, was moved to a later date to better assess and address the street community’s needs before winter.

Upon entering, attendees received a bag containing winter garments and a hygiene kit. They also had the opportunity to connect with 42 organizations offering a variety of services, including medical care, ID replacement, housing needs assessments, massages, haircuts, and more.

There are just some people that you meet and fall in love with instantly. Meet Alicia. Alicia is one of those. Alicia is a teacher of Spanish at Uvic, is a mother of two wonderful children, (Including her daughter who graduated from YALE and is also an awesome person ). Alicia is just so nice and so cool and so smart and so refreshing and so kind and so supportive amd so real and so into what’s important with life. Alicia is now offering private lessons for anyone who’s looking to speak Spanish. If one was to ask for a Spanish tutor it would not get any better than this wonderful woman and for anyone looking to learn a new language, would be the only recomondadion you need. Thank you for coming in, Alicia, you are and were an instant fave.