January 28, 2005
Mistress Moon
Poets and lovers have long been fascinated by the moon in all of her phases.
Winter moon,
beauty wrapped in lace.
Look now!
The man in the moon has a woman's face.
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Night Sky
Moonlightlace
I looked out my skylight and saw lacey snowflakes embracing the moon only hours before it blossomed into fullness.
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January 13, 2005
Frozen Cascade
My brother David photographed this astonishingly beautiful ice formation. This was taken close to his home in Adams Center, New York.
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How many pounds of beaver pelts can this canoe carry?
Students from South Haven's Central School engaged in a lively discussion with Ken Pott during a field trip to the South Haven Center for the Arts recently. Pott told students how this Quebec birch bark canoe was consstructed and how canoes like it were used by the French to carry furs and other goods. The fur trade flourished from 1650 to 1860 in New France. Furs from that region wound up as fur hats worn on the streets of Paris.
Answer/Question
If a 36-foot birch bark canoe could carry a crew of 10-12 and 5,000 pounds of furs, how many pounds of furs could a 16-foot canoe carry with a crew of 2-3 men?
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Hope on the Horizon
A Quote from Deepak Chopra from “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire”
Words to contemplate:
“If we look at the world today, we see a hierarchy of interdependently co-arising events. Social scientists claim our collective behavior is creating an unsustainable environment due to the depletion of timber, minerals, and fossil fuels, leading to other devastating effects such as the greenhouse effect, changing weather patterns, hurricanes and rising ocean tides. On the surface these different events don’t seem related, but they are. They are a result of our constructed collective sense of self and they synchronistic ally simultaneously co-arise. Religious conflict, pollution, terrorism, depletion of topsoil, nuclear plants, drug addiction, extinction of species, poverty, crime, drug wars, the gun industry, floods and famine, dangerous chemicals in the food chain and wars are all related.
If each of us could aspire to express our expanded self and if each of us could share the knowledge and experience of our expanded selves, with one another, perhaps we could create an environment based on respect for life , and achieve a restoration of balance in the oceans, the forests, and the wilderness. This transformed environment would, in turn, result in the simultaneous co-arising of events that would lead to a completely new world,. a new world, On this ideal planet we would find peace of mind, a sense of the sacred, economic partnerships and prosperity, efficient and clean energy industries, a scientific understanding of the new reality, a flourishing of the arts and philosophy, and a true awareness of our inseparability. In such a society we would see clearly that love is the ultimate force at the heart of the universe.”
Deepak Chopra
Let us start to build this new world though by thought and deed by deed. The generous outpouring of money, medical care and all kinds of assistance to the victims of the Dec. 26 tsunamis is evidence, I think, that thousands of people all over the globe realize that the human race is one family created from the same cosmic clay and each person’s life is a single strand in a giant web of life held together with Love.
KRISTIN HAY.
Jan. 10. 2005
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January 04, 2005
Canoe Splashes Down in Art Center Gallery
This 16-foot birchbark canoe is now on display at the South Haven Center for the Arts in the upper gallery. The canoe, which is on loan from the Fort Miami Heritage Society, is part of the current exhibit,"Ni-Ko-Nong-The Trailblazers of Early South Haven."
The exhibit will be at the Center through February 7. The canoe is 16 feet long and weighs 85 pounds, light enough for one man to portage, according to Kenneth Pott who was instrumental in getting the canoe for the exhibit.Ni-Ko-Nong is a collaboration between the Historical ASsoication of South Haven (HASH), the South Haven Center for the Arts and the Public History Department of Western Michigan Universtiy.
The lashings on the canoe are spruce root, and the seams are sealed with a mixture of bear fat, spruce gum and burned wood, according to Pott. The canoe is in the style of those built by natives, however, it is a Quebec canoe, a design adopted by the French. Pictured here with the canoe are Center Director Michael Fiedorowicz and Ken Pott, executive director of the Fort Miami Heritage Society.
Sue Hale of HASH is the curator of the exhibit. When school groups take a tour of the exhibit, they will see the canoe and view a video showing how it was built.
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January 03, 2005
South Haven Food Critic Goes to Sackett's Harbor
When I was on vacation recently in upstate New York, I landed this big fish sandwich in a small cafe in Sackett's Harbor. This town is on Lake Ontario and like South Haven, draws many tourists in the summer. However, the city fathers have made sure that historic buildings are preserved and there is not one condominium in the town. Small cottages nestled in woods dot the coastline.
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