Life is flourishing this summer. Astonished! Summer-Literacy students are delving into ‘Crazy Rich Asians” by Kevin Kwan. Astonished! Core Members are spending Monday afternoons exploring the natural world at the community garden they planted in June. They are engaging with nature through experiences like painting, meditating, making a bird feeder, and generally having fun and creating culture at the garden. The Big Sky Summer Adventure Program is a great way for Core Members to be together and be part of summer events, like the Queen City Ex, a Red Sox baseball game, a campfire, or a movie night. Check out our summer news here…..

At Astonished! the strengths, dreams, and needs of the Core Members set the direction for our work and our play. To see where our Strengths, Dreams, and Needs have taken us recently, click here.

Check out all the ways we are Creating Community in these unique times. Click here to view the April 23, 2022 e-newsletter.

We know everyone could use a little good news these days. We hope these stories from Astonished! will be blossoms of good news in your day.

Click here to read ‘A Little Good News’ in our July 2021 newsletter.

In harmony with the UN International Day of Disabilities, Astonished! is hosting its 6^th Annual Walk & Roll. It will be a virtual event, for the first time ever, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Walk & Roll is a family-friendly pledge event that aims to raise funds to support the work of Astonished! We invite you to create a team or join a team and come walk and roll with us. December 3^rd at 7:00 via Zoom. To learn more, create a team, or support someone, click here.

We hosted our first Walk and Roll in 2015. Students in Dr. Brenda Rossow Kimball’s Kinesiology 342 (Developmental Disability and Well Being), at the University of Regina, had the opportunity to put their learning into practice. Student groups partnered with community groups to recognize the International Day of Persons With DisAbilities. It was a steep learning curve for all of us; but together we carried out a successful event. Since then we have hosted four more Walk and Rolls and they have been getting bigger and better.  BUT, now it is 2020 and the pandemic creates some new challenges for us. We hope you are up for a challenge!