Tag: Recreation

  • Who Knew This Could Happen?!!!

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    A spectacular video from Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota demonstrates the incredible capabilities of nature.  The footage is of snow getting pushed ashore in the spring.  This is called an ice shove or shoreline ice pile up.  It is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake onto the shore. They are caused by…

  • Saturday’s Prayer

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    In the animation above, from the NFB’s 1977 “Poets on Film No. 1,” Canadian actor Paul Hecht reads Cohen’s poem “A Kite is a Victim,” from his 1961 collection The Spice-Box of Earth. “A Kite is a Victim” is about process, it’s a formal meditation focused on the image of the kite, which flutters through each…

  • Whisky and Poetry Salon

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    It doesn’t get better than this! In November 2012, Kim Ohanneson & Karolyn Kiisel of Literary Libations, and Johnnie “theScot” Mundell, “ambassador” for Morrison-Bowmore Scotch, inaugurated the Whisky & Poetry Salon at the B Black Penthouse in DTLA (downtown Los Angeles). Our goal has been to trade guests “whisky for their words”, to create an intimate literary and poetic…