May 26, 2006
London, ON

working... working... working....
xxx K

May 18, 2006
Poplar Beach, ON

Am back up at the cottage for five more days of solitary work and hibernation. This is likely to be my last solo voyage to Poplar Beach as the cottage is getting sold soon! (boo.) But I am so so so grateful for all the magical and incredible times I have spent here over the last 15 years. I will never forget. I have been deep deep into my writing and studies this trip. It has been totally drippy wet and unfortunate out, so I haven't been spending much time running about the forests and beaches. Instead I have been focusing inward and soaking my brain full of new knowledge. Have been working on a bunch of new tunes- both vocal and instrumentals. Am writing a song in honour of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and my favourite poem Kubla Khan . It is for him and all other artists and poets who had -and still have to- go to the very deepest darkest writhing pits of torturous artistic despair in order to birth their great art. But I'd know nothing about that... xo, K

May 2, 2006
Poplar Beach, ON

LOVE the spring, all the wee trilliums abloom and little birdies aplenty. Am at the cottage on Lake Huron for some more crazy-making creative hibernation. This always involves various kinds of writhing and flailing and tearing of one's hair out (and often -in the finer season- some serious barbecuing and triple-fermented beer-drinking) ...until you finally arrive at some crafty and glorious self-satisfied epiphany. Love that! Worth it every time. Makes me want to do gymnastics at sunset on a cliff edge, (see below) -o yeah!

Purrrr. xxo