| volume 5 of up north: 1980 june-november | work & days: a lifetime journal project |
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A beautiful time, mostly at the lake house, on my own and working. In part 1 arrive back at the lake house in mid-summer, Jam is there for three weeks into July, Janeen and my brother Paul visit. I worry about sex. In part 2 I settle happily into my ownself, am a responder at environmental hearings where I meet Irmgard Tiesenhausen and her son Peter. In part 3 I film the porch rail footage that will end Notes in origin. Hitch-hike to Vancouver hoping to make money picking apples. Part 4, back in the lake house. In part 5 a sweet time working with my then late-fifties parents who hire me to help build a house with them. Parts 5 and 6, marvelous last months in the lake house, finally writing what I can like, what later becomes the play of the weather. This volume patches together several daily record books and journal books and its transcription is inconsistent. Journal transcription - ie the large hardback volumes - sometimes remains in lower case with spaces rather than punctuation, whereas daily record - smaller hardback volumes - is always regularized. Instead of excerpting on this index page, I'm offering edited versions, all linked to unedited originals. Reading notes: Jung, GRS Mead, Grotowsky Towards a poor theatre, The structure of English, Yeats, Edwards The Field of Stones: a Study of the Art of Shen Chou, Cam Hubert (Anne Cameron) Dreamspeaker, Lessing Shikasta, Le Guin The dispossessed, Hegel Phenomenology, Pound Selected Cantos, Richardson Pilgrimage, Funk and Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary, Gopi Krishna Kundalini, Anne Righter Shakespeare and the idea of the play, Geraldine Cummings Swan on a black lake, Hugh Kenner The Pound era, Emerson on Thoreau "Biographical sketch", Coleridge *, Olson Muthologos: collected lectures and interviews, Peters Unquiet soul: a biography of Charlotte Bronte [I think], Iamblichus on the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, Sappho, Sally Gearhart The wanderground, Joyce Marie Smith Fulfillment, Kapleau Three Pillars of Zen, Mary Staton From the legend of Biel, Inuit poems. Mentioned: Mary Epp, Ed Epp, Jam Ismail, Janeen vanden Berg/Postman, Mary Davis, Chester Ronning, Peter Dyck, Luke, Nelly Konrad, Helmer Dolemo and Bridgette Horseman, Roy and Sara Chisholm, Peter Tiesenhausen, Mrs Tiesenhausen, Mrs Lin, the Lobergs, Rudy Epp, Daphne Marlatt, Joyce Frazee, Gloria Callihoo, Richard Harpe, Yvonne Macalister, lawyer Mr Ingram, Don Colley, * Solterman, Dr Klemm, * Romanchuk, Judy and Michael Bopp, Nadja Korpus of the Alberta Cultural Fund, Joe Comerford, Bernice Alstad Penson, Don Carmichael, Jean-Vi Lenthe, Cheryl Sourkes, Tony Tiller, Jean Waite, Paul Kinsella, Diana Kemble, Maryanne and Peter Konrad, Luisa and Peter Konrad, Roseanne Konrad, John Tofteland, Betty Jo and Larry, * Borggedahl, Nick Sieburt, Mary Sieburt, Nell and Mardy in Hythe, Joe Farnsworth, Glen Sandboe. Connally Wong's cafe in Hythe, Cheiftain Development Company sour gas plant hearings in the courthouse in Beaverlodge, Valhalla Lutheran Church, Spring Lake Road, Wembley Rd, Hythe, La Glace, Fort St John, Chetwynd, the Bilnor at Williams Lake, 100 Mile House, the Cache Creek junction, Spence's Bridge, Vancouver, Kelowna. Turner, Rembrandt, Bonnard, Picasso, Bach, Kawabata, Donne, Nietszche, Wagner, Noel Birch, Martha Haslanger, John Heydon, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Emerson, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor, Hildegard von Bingen, Stanley Spencer Self portrait with Patricia Preece, Jayne Mansfield, Nana Mouskouri, Don Giovanni, Lorine Neidecker, Flaubert, Conrad, James, Finnegan's wake, Gaudier Jerska , McLuhan, Limbourg, Tennyson, Stevens, de la Tour, Herbert, Limbourg, C.S.Lewis. |
[2005] house in ruins
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