This is funny. I disagree a little. I am a hippy: I am not opposed to smoking grass, but do not use it, or any drugs except a very occasional alcohol beverage, and I also do not stink (but I am opposed to being around people who do).
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The Path
A path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others in leaving it if that is what your heart tells you to do. Look at each path closely. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself one question. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good, if it does not it is of no use.
~ Carlos Castenada ~
8×10 Kingston Waterfront Path
Categories: Art, Kingston, Laura Moreland, Ontario, Original Art work of Laura Moreland, View, Wolfe Island
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The Hokey Pokey Clinic
I had to laugh today when my friend Little Red Riding Hood posted this in her Facebook wall. Perhaps it is an old joke? I never heard it until today, so it was totally new to me.
Still I thought, isn’t living in a Tiny House sort of like this? Small and sort of funny but it really does turn people around. You can’t be a huge consumer when you live in such a small space. Funny too because you would never be able to turn yourself around if you did not stop buying stuff, that is for sure. It really does not take much to make a Tiny House look like a hoarders space.
So here I am in the Hokey Pokey House… and that’s what it’s all about…
Categories: Materialism, Stuff, Tiny house, Tiny House Ontario, View
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The Ancestors Noweta
Before Tiny House Ontario was built, I thought I would build back a lot farther on my land than I did. Perhaps it was the Pukwudgies, that made me dream about building? I don’t think so, I feel that the ancestors have a plan for me. I dreamed a few nights before I was to build that my Grandma Moreland was standing there in the forest and she said that I should build it, there where she stood, so I did what she said.
I had been living there about a week last summer and while I sat writing I felt that there was someone watching me. It did not scare me, but rather I felt it was someone familiar who would protect me, who made me Noweta (welcome). When I looked up, I saw a face looking at me from a Maple tree that sits VERY close to the corner of the Tiny House.
I call this my Ancestor tree and I give the Ancestor treats like cheese, coffee and tea and I also burn sweet grass and white sage near the base.
This afternoon, I caught the Ancestor smiling at me and I decided to take his photo of the face in the tree and also to take a photo of the tree, from the upstairs window… I was very surprised to see such a straight line of trees in the forest! Funny that I had not noticed it before but it really is right at the corner of the house so I cannot see in this due South-West Angle, at all, because of the corner beam.
I think I have to give a little bit more research into my Native Delaware Folklore! Does anyone know about tree spirits?
Categories: Erazim Kohák, Forest, Nature, Ontario, Open your eyes, Simple living, Tiny House Ontario, View, Writing
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Sailing Bye
When I was a young girl, I was a guest from time to time on Simcoe Island with my parents, to visit Bruce Orr and his family. They had a fantastic cottage there on the beautiful shore on this jewel of an Island.
Bruce’s family had owned the land for a long time and actually his ancestors had been lighthouse keepers there since, I believe, the light houses were built. When I was a teenager and learning to paint he asked me to paint a photo of the Simcoe Island lighthouse for him. I tried, but I did not have the skills to do it.
Over 30 years later, I can paint quite a lot better, so I thought I would give it another shot. It is still difficult to paint because of the roof lines. Finally, at long last, here is my best shot. I hope you can see it from Heaven Bruce, it is just a little 8×10
(Special thanks to Colleen Murphy who gave me some great tips for photographing the water in this image. I am sure you will agree that this is a much clearer capture than the first version which I have since removed)
This is a genealogy link to the Orr family and this lighthouse.
Categories: Art, Laura Moreland, Ontario, Original Art work of Laura Moreland, Simcoe Island, Time, Tiny House Ontario, View
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