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Second-Growth Timber: March 2015

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Researching your ancestors is always a source of surprises; you’re lucky if it’s not a snake pit. Every family has stories that may be truth or fantasy, or at least embroidery. I was told from youth that we were descended from the illustrious Lees of Virginia. Actually it appears that we are descended from the less illustrious Lees of North Carolina — by way of the hillbilly Lees of Tennessee. Thursday, March 19, 2015. They often visit us in the morning, their dun coats shiftin...

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Feral Flute: February 2015

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The Whistlewood Notes: Rantings and Ravings of a Mad Musician on Improvisation, Mythology and Fluting in the Woods. February 12, 2015. Music is ephemeral. It is never the same twice. Even listening to a recording is never quite the same because the listener brings a different awareness each time they listen. They can’t help it. This is what makes music so tricky to explain and so wonderful to experience. A Couple of Examples. Why limit ourselves to imitating someone else’s improvisation? I admit, creatin...

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Second-Growth Timber: August 2014

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Monday, August 11, 2014. After a couple of dry summers, sometimes classified as severe or extreme drought, this season has been moist and comparatively cool. By mid-August most years, the grass is dry and crackling. Trees begin to lose leaves. The only bright green along the roadsides is the budding ragweed. Cooler weather has been another surprise gift. But even with this unexpected bounty, precipitation for the region is still below average. And of course, the ragweed is still thriving. The first storm...

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Second-Growth Timber: June 2014

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Monday, June 16, 2014. We shredded a few of these in class. I discovered by taking daily quizzes that I don’t mind drawing a blank as much as I mind thinking that I know the answer when I’m actually wrong. I know people who could. Identify this tree in five. Seconds. With the botanical. Key, it took us half an hour,. But now I know what makes. It a bur oak. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Denise Low, 2007-2009 Ks. Poet Laureate. The Mythical Jacquaflute Arrives!

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Feral Flute: November 2014

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The Whistlewood Notes: Rantings and Ravings of a Mad Musician on Improvisation, Mythology and Fluting in the Woods. November 15, 2014. What Do You Hear? I teach a music history class for non-music majors. One of the first things I make my students do is talk about music. I play musical examples for them and say "tell me what you thought". And silence falls. Or "what made you like this piece, the instrument sound or the melody? I try to create music that connects with the world around me, with myths and h...

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Feral Flute: April 2015

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The Whistlewood Notes: Rantings and Ravings of a Mad Musician on Improvisation, Mythology and Fluting in the Woods. April 30, 2015. Improv based on O'Carolan's "Farewell to Music". I'm mixing up the "simpler" folk tunes (some of which aren't that simple! With Telemann and Troubadour music. The idea is that there will be some songs I learn more easily (which will hopefully encourage me) while I'm struggling with the longer pieces. In time, I hope to share a wider variety of tunes. View my complete profile.

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Second-Growth Timber: March 2014

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Snow-piercers. Some people say it's bad luck to bring the blooms inside, but that little nosegay delighted me. There are 75 varieties of galanthus,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Denise Low, 2007-2009 Ks. Poet Laureate. International author Xánath Caraza’s latest book is a moving prayer, in Spanish and English, to water. The Mythical Jacquaflute Arrives! 2014 McHenry County Fair. Cupid and Psyche for Beginners. Closed. Shut. Defunct. Boarded Up.

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Second-Growth Timber: April 2014

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014. I’ve never felt like a stranger in the timber here, even though I’m still learning the names of the trees and finding new wildflowers hiding under the coral berries every spring. The spirit of this land has known me since I was knee-high. The violets speak for me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Denise Low, 2007-2009 Ks. Poet Laureate. International author Xánath Caraza’s latest book is a moving prayer, in Spanish and English, to water.

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Second-Growth Timber: Spirit Villages

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014. Watching the timber recover from logging, farming, grazing, drought, storms and time, I’ve come to trust the resilience of the land. With humans or without us, the earth will survive. Gaia takes care of her own. Reading Ronald D. Parks’ meticulous and compassionate book, The Darkest Period:. The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873,. 8220;like a flock of Turkeys.”. Yet they survive. In Oklahoma, Kaw City flourishes. The Kanza tribe. The stolen Shunganunga Boulder.