Weaver-Kruhoeffer Cabin walk CCC Camp Pelican Steven X and Mossy Equality

Re-exploring the Pelican Beach of my childhood with new eyes, Steven and I sat and connected with the energy of Peg and Pete Weaver who built this cabin in 1947 and then retired here in 1976. Pete passed over in Brainerd in 1981 in the cold depths of a January winter and Peg, remained here to finish out the front porch where she wrote on her computer and shared many stories with friends and relations until age 92, in the fall of 2002, Kerry Nate and I moved her into Woodland Assisted Living in Brainerd. Kerry Johnston became a special support person here over the years, and did the finishing work for her on the cabin. Thanks Kerry! Fun to see Steve here taking in the beauty and energy of the area on this fall day!

As we walked around the Pelican Beach and woods, we happened on the old CCC Camp where the washroom and water tower were as featured in Jim Henderson's book. We couldn't help but think of the beauty of the equal signs. Like the logo of HRC and the desire of a lot of us who are two spirited, to have true equality and share the beauty of this life with full recognition and acceptence of all people. Thanks for being a bright light!

Pelican Lake Beach - Xiaosong from Tianjin near Beijing

Over the past weekend, I was fortuneate to meet a Chinese trained physician that shares values about nature and other connections in life. Xiaosong, has taken up the name of Steven here in the English speaking midwest and it was fun for me to have my brother Jim and Kerry Johnston the property care taker meet him. Here he is walking the beach after we had flushed out two eagles. So grateful for the enthusiasm and interest in all of Creation.! Mitkuye Oyasin

Amy Brown and Jesse Weaver Splitting and Hauling Oak

As part of closing up the cabins for the winter, after hauing in the hoses and putting up the storm windows, we split and stacked oak to keep future fires going. Interesting to think about how wood fuel with be part of the energy balance in a post petroleum based economy. For me, having more of the family furniture and heirlooms safe in St Cloud under the care of Jess and Amy seems "right" for some reason. Thanks Amy and Jesse for co creating a fun and grounding weekend at Pelican Lake.
Nice to know the the eagle is still around to honor the land!

Jesse Weaver Load Oak for Splitting

I am grateful for my utilitiy trailer to haul the oak for splitting by the small cabin. Jesse and Amy both split the logs like this one prior to loading up the trailer with shelves and an oak library table I onced envisioned would be part of an environmental learning center here. Interesting that Haeberle, Jenkins and the Shattuck Group, may have had a similar vision early in the 20th Century with a map labeled "Shattuck Camp" for this area, as Shattuck and St James are schools in Faribautl whose mission it has been is to educate boys. Thanks Jess and Amy for the fun comeradarie here in the cool land!

Cutting Oak Logs Pelican Lake Preparing for Splitting

Quite a change in weather for me, having just arrived back from the UK, with mist, and rain and very green conditions with the old ones, the yew tree nation of hundreds if not thousands of years on the green isles. Here back on Turtle Island, AKA N America, we already had a light dusting of snow that can be seen between the leaves here. Jess and Amy, were looking in the big garage, as I was trying to start the saw. I took time to BREATHE into my gut...hara, and decided to go with them to sort what might be useful for Jesse and Amy in their lives in St Cloud. Fun to continue the sorting and letting go of things that no longer serve my journey, and give some to the next generation. Sharing the garage allowed me to share the stories of this land that our family has stewarded since 1967. Now "owned" by Jim and Melanie, the garage, that I had built in 1982 in memory of Paul Henry Weaver, died in January 1982 in Brainerd, I built to honor his love for this beautiful part of the planet and hopefully to serve as an educational center. While sorting through shelves, books, and other tools to support future life, I mentioned to Jess and Amy that I had a dream of creating an environmental teaching center here AND that the years of having an initi, sweat lodge frame here on the land, really was a part of that dream fullfilled and that I am grateful that he could be part of and witness that tradition here on this land and also in South Dakota. I still see the spirits of Peg Weaver and Theresa Blackbear who met and prayed together on this land, and I am moved to create communities of resilence to carry on their teachings in a good way. I look forward to seeing our that manifests during the transition time from petroleum dependence.

Amy and Jesse Pelican Lake Computer Network Transition

After getting on the storm windows at Melanie and Jim's Pelican Nature Cabin, AKA The Palmer Cabin, Jesse discovered that there is now a linksys router for wifi connection to the cyberworld here at the cabin. Here they are checking things out on line, while I listened to Barack Obama's speech to HRC, the LGBT lobbying group that has done so much to educate Americans on equal rights for ALL Americans. I have had the HRC equal sign on the back of my van for years and am grateful to have a president that asks all Americans to be Christ-like..."to love our neighbors, no exceptions". I wonder if Rev Dobson is focusing on his own family in Colorado Springs, just a thought and will pray for all religious fundementalists, Christian, Moslem who choose not to honor their own lives here on Mother Earth. Thanks Amy and Jess for your kind compassion during this transition. Peace, love joy and beauty.
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1947 Cards Celebrating Centenary of US Postage Stamps

One of the things I really enjoyed as a kid, was collecting stamps and noticing the art and stories of different nations on thier stamps. One of the casualties of the email era are all the cool stamps and the romance that comes from them, and fine art like the engravures and all. So when I was sorting through "stuff" and thinking about canasta with my sis Jane and her family, here are some cool cards, from the year of my birth...Cool or what. Images of Ben Franklin on the 5, and George Washington on the OS X, oops its not a Mac operating system its the roman numeral for 10 . Also grateful for the art on the older cards.
Along with the dominoes I look forward to some future games with this set. Anyone for hearts? :-)