volume 3 of up north: 1979-1980 october-december   work & days: a lifetime journal project

 

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In this short, intense volume I have three months in the lake house. Part 1, Jam and Ezra drive back with me. When we arrive in moonlight we make our first night's bed in the grass. Trumpeter swans are staging on the lake, which starts to freeze when they leave. I need money, trying cone picking with my mom. There is the winter's firewood to look after so we rent a chainsaw. We have books from the college in Grande Prairie and the extension library in Edmonton. There are a lot of photographs. While Jam is away for two weeks I film a swan on the ice and other of the Notes in origin shots. Part 2 deep sex and scared fighting. When there's a blizzard Jam finds lesbians in Hythe. My parents are in Arizona for the winter so we have Christmas in bed. At the end of the volume I leave my car in a ditch outside Hythe and take a bus to Edmonton to look for work while Jam stays chipping away at her thesis in the snow.

Notes: Whitehead, Thoreau, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, CS Lewis, Bragg, David Milne, Krishnamurti, The Chestry oak, Inuit writing, Joseph Rock, James The sacred fount, Fan village, book about the Mevlevi, LM Montgomery's diary, Durrell Clea.

Mentioned: Jam Ismail, Mary Epp, Ed Epp, Rudy Epp, Bernice Horneland, Helmer Dolemo, Tone Tofteland, Fred *, Slip *, Hazel Tofteland, Miss Veltenhuis, Daphne Marlatt, David Mann, Heide Holst, Mrs Grotkowski, Luke, Roy and Sara Chisholm, Betty Jo and Larry Stamm, Jesse Stamm, Maggie Shore, Sadie Flaten, the Gerry Lobergs, the Lin family, Diana Kemble, Josie Cooke, Bill Volk, Cheryl S, Trudy R, JoAnn Kaplan, Andrew Campbell-Fowler, Tony Nesbit, the Peters boy, Mardy *, Janeen Postman vanden Berg.

The campground at Chilliwack, the Lillouet road, 70 Mile House, Quesnel, Prince George, the Tofteland house at Valhalla Lake, La Glace Credit Union, Valhalla Centre School, Hythe, Beaverlodge, Grande Prairie, La Glace Golden Age Club, La Glace School, Holland Park.

The Shakers, Tantric art, Dinesen, Ms magazine, Time, space and knowledge, Bachelard, Spiritual midwifery, HD Bid me to live, Shaking the pumpkin, Vaughn, Monet, From the legend of Biel, Handel Lascia qu'io piango, Mavis Gallant in Paris, Cry the beloved country, Einstein, Technicians of the sacred, Natalie Granger, Doris Lessing, Maclean's magazine, DH Lawrence, Dorothy Richardson, Omni magazine, The black rose.

Rather than pull extracts on this page I've again provided somewhat edited parallel pages. Have only linked from these more readable versions.