volume 4 of up north: 1980 january-june   work & days: a lifetime journal project   1   2   3   4           Part 1 I take a bus to Edmonton, leaving Jam in the lake house on her own for the rest of the winter. From the Y find a weekend job looking after a mentally disabled girl, and then a month-long live-in job looking after Pat the 90-year old railway man and his three teenage grandsons while the parents go to Hawaii. During these jobs I keep working in the ways I had up north. In part 2 I'm in Vancouver at the Hotel Europe, Jean-Vi and Katherine visit. Part 3 I go tree planting up Jervis Inlet on a barge. Hellish early season with a Brinkman crew led by Nora *. Sleet, howling wind flapping the little tent at night, an air mattress that deflated, 45 degree slopes. I start cooking for the crew, alternating with the crew chief's boyfriend. Briefly in Vancouver between contracts. Part 4, planting and cooking near Bella Coola. I don't provide edit versions for this vol because none of it is from the lake house. Notes: Jane Roberts' Seth material, de Chardin Le milieu divin, Celtic mythology, Yeats, geographic visualisation, weather systems, Denise Levertov, Chinese history, Greek mythology, parthenogenetic lizards, Jung, electronic music, Ehrenzweig The pictorial space of Bridget Riley, Liu The travels of Lao Ts'an, Richard Mulcaster, The gospel according to Thomas, Tibetan book of the dead, La region centrale, The black stallion (the movie), diatoms, moths, National Geographic, music of north India, Pistis Sophia, birdsong, optics, photomicrography and photobiology, genetics, the Lightning Field, Sappho, Mentioned: Jam Ismail, Don Carmichael, Diana Kemble, Paul Kinsella, Cheryl S, Trudy R, Daphne Marlatt, Roy Kiyooka, Judith Sandiford, Maggie Shore, Carole Itter, Rhoda Rosenfeld, Josie Cooke, Sandy Rodin, Renee Rodin, Marion Bancroft, Joyce Frazee, Shan *, Dale *, Jean-Vi Lenthe, Katherine *, Hildegard *, Greg Morrison, Indra Kagis, Don Druick, Pat Smith, Ina Dennekamp, planters Kim Nora Wren Jane Mark Elizabeth Susan Park Hillel, Henry Brownrigg , Roy Chisholm, Luke, Buddy Hardy, Madge Herron, Nell and Marty in Hythe, Edmonton YWCA, Hotel Europe at 43 Powell in Vancouver, the Blue Mule studio, Women's Day benefit at the Polish Community Centre, the Classical Joint, Clearbrook Road, Daroka's, women's dance I think at the Fisherman's Hall on Powell, 3 Vets, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Deacon's Safety Supply, Jervis Inlet, Pine Free Clinic, Williams Lake, Bella Coola, the Ukrainian Hall on Pender, the Swedish Ballroom, Silver Creek, St Teresa, Beaver Indians, How to grow orchids, Thoreau, Dorothy Richardson, Penthouse magazine, James Agee, HD, Gertrude Stein, Bach's mass, Helen in Egypt, John Muir, Circle Lo, Susie Wong, the child Mozart, Rembrandt, Eva Hesse, Rafferty, Ingrid Suderman, Phyllis Mailing, Marie-Claire Blais, Krishnamurti, Kawabata The master of go, Two silhouettes on the shade, Brinkman Reforestation, Germinale, The tale of Genji, Maya Deren, Sheila Watson, Krishnamurti, Robin Blaser.