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Dance
with the West Wind
Acrylic Ink on 2" Gesso Board by
Roderick
MacIver
Unframed
Original
(30" x 30") $700
Limited
Edition Prints
Now
on sale through February 20th |
It has been
a little warmer around here lately. Red foxes and coyotes have
begun their mating season, and you can hear them yipping and yapping
in the late evening and very early morning.
In
the midst of winter
I discovered within me,
an invincible summer.
—Camus
Out in the
winter woods, life has adapted to the cold. Food is scarce. Water
is frozen and animals hibernate and wait for spring. Some species
have developed a form of anti-freeze. Ruffled grouse tunnel into
the snow and wait out winter storms. Precious calories are conserved.
 The
human world is changing. It is always changing. What worked yesterday
doesn’t work today. In the face of change, we need inner
resources.
Deep inside,
an invincible summer. Now, simple things give life meaning. We
go out into the stark winter woods and find beauty there. We go
inside to seek shelter from the winter cold and find our inner
warmth, our inner beauty. Difficult times bring out the best in
us.
In the winter
wind, cattails release their 125,000 seeds. In the spring, new
life.
In celebration of the Great Dance of Life,
Roderick
W. MacIver
About
This Week’s Painting
I recently saw a documentary on the music
and life of John Denver in which his song "The Eagle and
the Hawk" was prominently featured. One stanza in particular
inspired this painting:
Come dance with the west wind,
And touch on the mountain tops,
Sail over the canyons,
And up to the stars.
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A
Death on the Barrens is a powerful book of wilderness travel
and spiritual exploration. It is the story of five young men setting
off on a canoe trip through Canada's arctic in 1955. The group was
unprepared for the winter and their leader died of hypothermia. One
of the young men on the trip, George Grinnell, worked on this memoir
for fifty years. This Heron Dance edition contains one-color wild
nature paintings by Roderick MacIver.
And
the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
—T.S.
Elliot, excerpted in A Death on The Barrens
A
subscriber, who read A Death on the Barrens, sent us this
letter:
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Heron Dance is
running low on some popular items, including our 2009 Calendar
and a number of notecards. We have less than a dozen copies of some
of these items and we want to give Heron Dancers a heads-up because
once these products are gone, we have no plans to re-print them.
"I
immerse myself in the Eternal Present as I walk, reeling in the absolute
immediacy of a trail twisting and turning through the trees. The forest
opens to me. Around every bend, a new world awaits – a glimpse
of some wild creature darting across the land, a beaver pond appearing
unexpectedly, a rare flower blooming. There is no end to it. I savor
these small, elemental surprises as the abstract concerns of a more
complicated way of life gradually fade away. I become a part of the
forest – a woods wanderer, a seeker of wild things, a chaser
of butterflies. And the gap between self and other narrows."
—Walt McLaughlin, Forest Under My Fingernails
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The
Heron Dance Pause for Beauty Blog
Heron Dance has entered the blogosphere! Each
week, we will post the latest Pause for Beauty nature art painting
and letter to Heron Dancers on http://pauseforbeauty.blogspot.com.
We hope the blog will help expand the community of Heron Dancers and
will be a creative and cost effective marketing strategy for Heron Dance
during these challenging economic times.
We are asking fellow bloggers to help spread the word about our new
Pause for Beauty blog by publishing a post about Heron Dance
or adding a link to our blog or our website. It would be great if your
posting contained your own thoughts on Heron Dance, but feel free to
use the text in the “About
Us” section of our new blog if it is easier for you. Publishing
a Heron Dance post on your blog will help broaden our support base and
sustain us through the coming years. Thanks and happy blogging!
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