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What a great song leader Sarah Lee Guthrie is! She really nailed the passion and energy behind my song (video above of 'Rise Up Eagle') and got the audience singing. It's an honor to have her lead this song by the Washington monument too.<br />
'There's an eagle in this land, it knows the taste of freedom, it loves the taste of freedom,<br />
Rise, up, Rise up, Eagle!' Yes!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-40726592048546921422017-04-22T15:07:00.001-07:002017-05-15T12:27:02.344-07:00 New Website!<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Come join me at <a href="http://www.bascomlodge.net/">Bascom Lodge</a> as we weave our magic, creating our own chants and songs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0px;">In this two hour workshop we will determine if we’re Thunderbirds, Horned Serpents, Pukwudgies or Wampuses and then create incantations, chants or poems based on our character. What is the sound at the heart of the snake horn fragment? Our creations can be performed or kept secret.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Over the years he has taken part in "Sounding Mohican Pathways," an educational and cultural exchange program that I created in collaboration with Tammis Coffin, Education Director at the Mission House. This program received a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Stockbridge Cultural Council.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">This program built bridges between the Stockbridge community here and the Stockbridge Mohican community in Wisconsin. Working with contacts at the Mohican reservation and at the Mission House and Indian Museum here, I organized an interactive music program that incorporated stories, songwriting and history. Shawn and I presented an 'origin of song' program at the Stockbridge Library as well as the "Sounding Mohican Pathways" walk down Main Street to historical sites.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> ~</span><span style="color: lime;">><a href="http://www.oovrag.com/essays/essay2008c-4.shtml">"Freedom from Want" essay written</a> by Carlos Bulosan for the original Four Freedoms</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was an honor to sing at First Unity: great band, powerful sermon and meditation. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Loved sharing the stage with Sierra Davis, Alan Armstrong and the Unity singers.</span></div>
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Missed my peeps in the Berkshires and DC,<br />
but so moved to be with marchers in St. Pete.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-59848057104904806432017-01-25T10:29:00.000-08:002017-01-25T10:29:04.262-08:00NOMAD Art Bus ~ Art for Everyone<br />
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A canvas on wheels and a program whose motto is Art For Everyone.</div>
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BRAVO!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-69477855742341875262016-09-13T20:53:00.001-07:002017-01-26T21:16:55.038-08:00We are water and by water are led...<br />
A friend heard the water protector's moving testimony: 'I am made of water..' and it reminded him of my song<br />
<span style="color: cyan;"> </span><b><span style="color: cyan;"><a href="https://joannespies.bandcamp.com/edit_track?id=2408206935">By Water I Am Led</a> </span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">(</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Spoken Intro)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Twelve thousand years of tears are standing in my throat </b></span></span><br />
<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A hundred million fears are woven in my coat</span></b><br />
<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Illusion and memory are all the same</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Can you tell me, what is my name? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Beyond the mountains I move along </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My voice is hidden, then my voice is strong</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>After so much silence and separation</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Will you praise my beauty, my reparation?</b></span><b><br /></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Rising, falling, known, unknown</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>My water blossoms in your bone</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>I am the heart of tree and bird</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>I am the river, a holy word</b></span><b><br /></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>(sung) </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>I'm standing by the riverside </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Lost and ramblin' in my pride </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Never knowin' in my heart and my head </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> I am water and by water am led </b></span><b><br /></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Let the memory of the soft green ground</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>And the majesty of each simple sound</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Hold me when I’m tumbling down</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>I am water, missing and found</b></span><b><br /></b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Chorus:</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> Landlocked, full of fear </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> Sound your torrent that I may hear </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> Where I’m stubborn, let me flow </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> Where I’m ignorant, let me know </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Let the spirit of the earth and sky</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Keep me when I die</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Carry me to the river and sea</b></span><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>I am water and I am free</b></span></span></h3>
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My song 'Survivor Tree' was written for a ceremony honoring both Jane Goodall and the Survivor Tree on International Day of Peace:<br /><span style="color: cyan;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Vt9usD7Pg">Jane Goodall Honors the Survivor Tree</a></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">You stood in the darkest day</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Covered in fire and ash</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Even your roots were blown away</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">How could you be so torn</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Come back and be reborn</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Come back and hold the sky</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">We watered your roots</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">Nurtured your shoots</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Sheltering you </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">Take all our tears</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">And water your roots with love</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Water your roots with love</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"><br />
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Water your roots with love and peace</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">We will rise</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Let us be wise</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">When we are sure we’re right</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: medium;">Let us </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 19px;">water our</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: medium;"> roots with love</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Water our roots with love</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"><br />
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Water our roots with love and peace</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 25.000000pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Where we are blinded</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Let us see</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">When we lose courage</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">Help us stand like a tree</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">We’ll water our roots</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">We’ll water our roots with love </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">Water our roots with peace</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">We’ll water our roots with love and peace</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 25pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;">We’ll water our roots with love and peace</span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-56392522394976526592016-09-07T11:44:00.001-07:002016-11-14T04:30:04.679-08:00 trees<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-75476924023320253292016-08-01T08:14:00.001-07:002016-11-26T06:28:35.043-08:00 wampus wishes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Thanks to all who came up through the rain and the fog to magical Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts.<br />
We crawled, flew and climbed as we became many creatures, made their unique sounds and explored what their wishes might be.<br />
New names and words were invented.<br />
Our wishes went out into the world.<br />
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Thank you to the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire and the MCC for supporting the arts.<br />
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Thank you to Derek Gentile and Gillian Jones from the Eagle for visiting our workshop.<br />
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<a href="http://www.berkshireeagle.com/local/ci_30191269/magic-and-mountian-harry-potter-book-release-celebrated">Berkshire Eagle article</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-61803234858855161902016-07-22T21:19:00.004-07:002016-07-23T05:58:48.943-07:00Magic Words<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">Just completed totem for my Incantation and Song Magic workshop </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">to represent: </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">Wampus (Body), Pukwudgie (Heart), </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">Horned Serpent (Mind), and Thunderbird (Soul)</span></h3>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>In the very earliest time</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>when both people and animals lived on earth,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>a person could become an animal if he wanted to</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>and an animal could become a human being.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>Sometimes they were people</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>and sometimes they were animals</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>and there was no difference.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>All spoke the same language.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>That was the time when words were like magic</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>The human mind had mysterious powers.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>all you had to do was say it.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>Nobody can explain this:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>That’s the way it was.</b></span></span><span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Thanks to The Sun Magazine for publishing this Inuit poet in </b></span></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica";"><b>their July issue.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica";"><b>sheds light on incantation..</b></span><b style="color: orange; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To register for workshop e-mail spiesarts@gmail.com by July 28th</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="color: orange;">More info at Berkshire Edge ~> </span><a href="http://calendar.theberkshireedge.com/search.php?s=july+31st&word_search=true"><b><span style="color: magenta;">calendar listing.</span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Building an incantation house for upcoming workshop makes me think that function follows form. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Adding birch mask creates new dimensions to explore with group.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;">This old print from my Art Cart work is perfect for the roof. How does the Ilvormorny school take into account Native American culture? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">It was exciting to create a three-sided 'house' in a workshop with artist</span> <a href="http://berkshiremuseum.org/portfolio-item/living-earth-work-robert-hite/" style="color: magenta; font-weight: bold;">Robert Hite</a><span style="color: magenta; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">and others at the Berkshire Museum and Hancock Shaker Village.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">"Incantation House" will come up to Mt. Greylock with me for the incantation workshop I'm leading at 2:00, July 31st. To register, e-mail spiesarts@gmail.com</span><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you think traces of the Ilvermorny School influenced <b><i>Moby Dick</i></b>?</span></div>
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Getting ready for my July 31st performance on Mt. Greylock, I'm pondering what Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Wharton might have encountered when they visited this lofty peak.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Would all these writers fall into the Horned Serpent category at the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardy? </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's fascinating to study the mythology of <span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: '"helvetica"'; font-size: 18px; text-indent: -36px;">Thunderbirds and Horned Serpents. Pukwudgies and Wampuses will require more imagination. </span>We'll look into this at the Incantation Workshop before the performance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The horned serpent symbol is one of many snake-like deities with horns associated with Native American tribes, often symbolizing rain, thunder and waterways.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Mt. Greylock is not only the highest mountain in Massachusetts, but J.K. Rowling has designated it as the home of the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardy!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; text-indent: -36px;">In this two hour workshop we will determine if we’re Thunderbirds, Horned Serpents, Pukwudgies or Wampuses and then create incantations, chants or poems based on our character. What is the sound at the heart of the snake horn fragment? Our creations can be performed at the evening show or kept secret.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Senator Elizabeth Warren said: “Defense Against the Dark Arts, Prof? (J.K. Rowling)? Where do I apply? Trump, Death Eaters - I got this!”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let’s see what we got in the way of defense and magic.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff9900;">To register by Wednesday, July 27th e-mail </span><a href="mailto:spiesarts@gmail.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: orange;">spiesarts@gmail.com</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pay what you will: legal tender or dragon heartstring</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: orange;"><b style="color: #dc80ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> According to J.K. Rowling, <span style="color: magenta;">---><a href="https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/ilvermorny">The Ilvermory School</a> was located atop Greylock in its misty past.</span></span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: orange;">Like at Hogwarts, Ilvermorny students are sorted into four houses, and as with Hogwarts, fans can take a quiz on </span><a href="https://www.pottermore.com/"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Pottermore</span></b></a><span style="color: orange;"> to determine which Ilvermony house they belong to. The choices on this side of the pond are named after magical creatures rather than school founders: Thunderbird, Horned Serpent, Pukwudgie, and Wampus. The first two are exactly what they sound like, the third is “a short, grey-faced, large-eared creature distantly related to the European goblin” (one of whom helped the school’s founding family in their time of need), and the fourth is a kind of panther.</span></span></div>
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<b style="color: orange;">I envision Senator Warren leading our chorus Sunday evening, with a few incantations from J.K. Rowling thrown in for good measure. </b></h3>
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>I'll be weaving in songs and poems from 'Me & Melville' and words from Berkshire literary luminaries who have visited this majestic peak, along with original songs.</b></span><span style="color: orange;"><b> </b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: orange;">Allow at least a half hour drive from Rt. 7 in Lanesborough to the top, and consider staying for dinner at the Lodge at 7:00. Reservations strongly suggested.</span></h3>
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Monday, June 27th - Air <br />
It was a warm, sunny morning with not much of a breeze.<br />
Poems went inward to breath, lungs and depth of breathing.<br />
Noticing number of breaths for inhale and exhale.<br />
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someone wrote:<br />
leaves on tree beside me<br />
shimmer and move<br />
my lungs smile<br />
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There are an infinite array of fire mandalas, and infinite ways<br />
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Join me tomorrow outside the Stockbridge Library, June 20th<br />
the first day of summer, to create your mandala.</div>
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Twelve thousand years of tears are standing in my throat<br />
A hundred million fears are woven in my coat<br />
Illusion and memory are all the same<br />
Can you tell me, what is my name?<br />
Beyond the mountains I move along<br />
My voice is hidden, then my voice is strong<br />
After so much silence and separation<br />
Will you praise my beauty, my reparation?<br />
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Where is the watershed?<br />
<span style="color: lime;"><br /></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: lime;">from "Where is the Watershed?" by JoAnne Spies </span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: lime;">listen ~>: </span><span style="color: magenta;"><b><a href="https://joannespies.bandcamp.com/track/where-is-the-watershed">"Where is the Watershed?"</a></b></span></span><span style="color: cyan;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">local~>:<span style="color: magenta; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HousatonicRiverInitiative/" style="font-weight: bold;">Housatonic River Initiative</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">1.Where is the place that urbanites, suburbanites, and rural residents inhabit together?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">2.Where is the place to learn and practice sustainable ways that satisfy basic human needs?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">3.Where is the place nearest at hand to restore & maintain ecosystems & wildlife?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">4.Where is the place to re-localize & decentralize political, social and economic features?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">5.Where is the place to remanufacture products from recycled material?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">6.Where is the place for students to learn about ecology?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">7.Where is the place to begin both reducing climate change & planning suitable adaptations?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Answer: The watershed in the bioregion where you live.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">See </span><span style="color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://planetdrum.org/" style="color: #f2984c; text-decoration: none;">planetdrum.org</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-31224581079964690612016-06-13T05:37:00.002-07:002016-06-13T05:56:55.995-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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stubbly concrete where I grew up. I yearn to take the time to wonder about and dwell upon (live in) the elements around me today and 'all the colors of the dawn and dusk.'<br />
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We won't meet at dawn, but at 10 a.m. the next few Mondays to 'concentrate our minds on the Remembered Earth.'<br />
Each session focuses on an element.<br />
Monday June 6 - earth<br />
June 13 - water<br />
June 20 - fire<br />
June 27 - air<br />
July 11 - ether<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first session of Dance, Dream and Doodle on June 6th moved outdoors into the sunshine.</span></div>
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Dancing, singing in harmony and writing culminated in individual songs.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">Next week we meet at</span><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="color: magenta;"><b> <a href="http://www.thesba.org/save-stockbridge-bowl-campaign/history-geography-facts-about-stockbridge-bowl/">Stockbridge Bowl</a></b></span><span style="color: cyan;"> at 10:00 am to celebrate water using a similar format.</span></span></div>
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<b>These DDD sessions grew out of an exploration of mindful eating.</b></div>
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<b>For every meal that I eat mindfully, </b></div>
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<b>at the end of the month. $3 a day would be close to $100. Let's share and collect boxes.</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749540126145675414.post-26431052977476472712016-06-02T04:40:00.001-07:002016-06-09T05:09:08.761-07:00The Stockbridge Library annual meeting hosted four representatives of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe that was a fitting tribute to the first people who lived here.<br />
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The <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://stockbridgelibrary.org/2016/06/procter-museum-archives-reopening-celebration/"><span style="color: cyan;">Procter Museum and Archives</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> </span></span>reopens June 25th, and will have a wonderful display of Stockbridge Indian artifacts and art.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">"Sounding Mohican Pathways," an educational and cultural exchange program that I created in collaboration with Tammis Coffin, former Education Director at the Mission House, received a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2011.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm grateful to the MCC and the Stockbridge Cultural Council for this program that helped build bridges between the Stockbridge community here in Massachusetts and the Stockbridge Mohican community in Wisconsin. In addition to a 'historical/musical' walk that I led to the Housatonic River and Indian burial ground in Stockbridge, there was a music program at the library that wove together stories, songs and history. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #000033; color: #f2984c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">There's a wealth of new books that the Stockbridge Indians gifted to the library museum with new stories and history to explore!</span></div>
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