Tanya Tagaq, moers festival 2012, photo by michael hoefner Tanya Tagaq CM (born Tanya Tagaq Gillis, May 5, 1975), also credited as Tagaq, is a Canadian Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. Tagaq was a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
dVerse — Poetics — Spirits Promise
Painting by Joseph Farquharson ‘Cauld Blaws the Wind Frae East to West’ (1888) Mountainspirit guides us, watching above, solid below;her strong arms hold in warm hearth promise. Mountainprotects us from harm, towards uncertain unknowns.Despite wind’s cold voice chasing us; we rest,dreamless. Valleyspirit opens us to her green velvet;tree nation’s welcoming swath sways in whispered hope.Valleytarries…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #120 – March 1, 2022
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! There is quite a collection this week! The Card Counter (2021) Starring: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe Director: Paul Schrader Genres: drama, crime Synopsis: The Card Counter, namely William Tell, is a man haunted by his past. He’s just gotten out of federal prison…
Women Music March 2022 — Day 1 — Vanessa Collier
Vanessa Collier photo by TrinidadSteve There’s a young lady came onstage with me, I forget where I was, but she’s playing an alto saxophone, and man, she was amazing. –Buddy Guy from Vanessa’s website: Those are the words of Buddy Guy in a recent issue of American Blues Scene, describing an impromptu performance with Vanessa…
dream from beginning of february 2022
The dream I had wasn’t a dream as much as an image that presented itself to me when I was asleep. I don’t have the artistic ability to create exactly how it looked but I can say it looked sort of like this. The patterned material on the right is supposed to represent what I…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Cold Mountain
This weekend I met up with my family at Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids to walk the indoor gardens. After my younger son, his wife, and their baby daughter left, older son and I took a stroll through the Japanese Gardens outside. As we walked through and around the pond we were…
TSM 200 — Revived
Boxed in with square plates, floundering, unable to breathe. Darkness surrounds; I sink to the bottom, inert ink chrysalis. Bu bum.. bu bum.. shaken infused with grumble vibration; woozy slakes corners smooth, fills deflated bags with vivre. I rise, kicking, alive. As part of the celebration, Carrie has asked that we say a little bit…
