Harrison Owen periodically restates his invitation to the world to not only join in Open Space but to go as far as you can in Open Space and see where it takes you. I feel like my work of late has been about this in many ways, and Harrison’s recent post to the OSLIST came at just the right time for me. Here is what he says: A long time ago a good friend, Ralph Copleman, was to be found in the middle of a large circle of peers dressed in a flowing cape and repeating the words, “Everything is …
From the Ontario trip, three new musicians: I saw Michael Ketemer playing a beaten up old Larrivee at the Peterborough Farmer’s Market on Saturday. He bore a little resemblance to Neil Young, with long stringy hair under a ball cap, but he is a much different kind of guitarist. Lovely virtuoso finger picking Celtic guy. He played a few very unusual set dances and some jigs and reels for me and we talked a little. I asked him which of his albums he was most proud of and he handed me “Yellow Stockings” which I bought. You can listen to …
Humid air full of cicada song, crickets and the slow drawl of tires on gravel roads. Ontario summer rural. # Pink thunder heads full of lightning rising out of the twilight. Ringed by storms on an evening swim in the clear waters of Georgian Bay. # Humidity broken, crisp clear Beaver Valley summer air. Now is the time the local apples take in their sweetness. # COME ON YOU SPURS!!! that is all… #coys # The hush of wind in the poplars and a mourning dove. Sometimes Victorian Ontario awakens to the present. # Off to Peterborough today for more …
My summer is drawing to a close, although the weather is still lovely and I’m only easing back into work. Coming off ten days in Ontario where I was at my sister’s wedding, enjoying some extended time with an extended family that lives all over the world. We only come together for weddings and funerals and this is the far better reason of the two. The wedding was in Thornbury Ontario, where my parents live, in the heart of Ontario’s apple growing country. From there we went down to Peterborough where my new brother in law Steve Weir is from. …
And he’s right. If you’re in London UK, you might want to think about this free evening offering on September 6 with Johnnie and friends: We can’t go on meeting like this. This emerges from my experience of all sorts of events of late. I think there may be a gap in the market for something that allows us to meet in ways that are more satisfying. The focus is on connecting with others in engaging ways – without resorting to formats of expert speakers or simply pouring drinks, putting on music and hoping for the best. I’d go. Heck, …