KETTLE VALLEY RAILROAD

KETTLE VALLEY RAILROAD

(a 20-mile trek)

So subtle the slope up of man’s

taming his path through rock,

his pass small and temporary

as himself and his plans,

even Kyle thinks so as we walk

that old great road now airy

of train whistle, only a linger

of creosote smells, the great heave

and gasp of steam silenced,

the tomb tunnels putting a finger

to their lips, giving us no leave

to shout, our breath tensed

between the guard rails for tourists.

Some played to their death here,

their gathered flowers an unbelonging

memorial, Erik says, his fists

full of raspberries, while Kyle, near

every precipice, disdains wronging

his stomach with goodness, preferring

the pizza picnic we brought secretly

to supplement Aunt Ann’s liverwurst

on rye.  Erik is undemurring

after ten miles, his sweat wetly

staining, while Kyle will be first

at the twenty mile mark still

dancing, still asking me geometric

and engineering questions; every trestle

a new promise that, yes, he will

build bigger, bolder; so energetic

for man’s grandeur.  I must wrestle

for a rest, sharing the last

water with Erik who sees

God’s grandeur through my eyes,

the mounts and river are the cast

of a vast drama for man’s ease

to know what’s wise.

Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2012 K’lakokum

For photos of what we visited in 1995, and for history of the railway, go here:  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_Valley_Railway.   Many of the trestles were destroyed in the forest fire of 2003, featured on the cover of South of Tuk #100.  For S of T website, see   http://southoftuk.blogspot.ca

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Today’s book selections:

ITEM AJ57...AMERICAN FASCISTS: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT & THE WAR ON AMERICA Chris Hedges $8

[AZ]ITEM AZ02…HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE J.K. Rowling $6

[AZ]ITEM AZ03…J.K. ROWLING: THE WIZARD BEHIND HARRY POTTER Marc Shapiro $15

[KE]ITEM BA16…SEXUAL HARASSMENT: HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SPEAK OUT June Larkin $15

Girls are harassed in high schools every day, and no one seems to be dealing with the problem.  In this book, Larkin interviews teen-age girls and reports on how sexual harassment is a part of daily high school routine, with complicity from administrators, educators, and officials.  As long as harassment remains a fact of school life, equal opportunity in education must remain unrealized, she contends.

ITEM IB07…THE APPEAL OF FASCISM Alastair Hamilton $20

CONDITION: dj is poor; book is good, one inscription.  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

ITEM UE09…STICKS AND STONES Lewis Mumford AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE $15

Mumford investigates the evolution of architectural style in the USA and demonstrates the relationship between that evolution and other cultural trends.  He begins with the New England Village as a single architectural entity, then covers the meeting house, Jeffersonian neo-classicism, early industrialism, utilitarian crudity, Gothic revival, Crystal Palace, growth of cities, the skyscraper, regional planning.  He discusses McKim, Mead, Penn Station, the University of Virginia, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Richardson, the Brooklyn Bridge, Wright, Sullivan, and the Harkness Memorial.

This is a recent undated reprint of the 1955 2^nd revised edition of the book; ISBN 048620202x; softcover; 113 pages; very good condition.

ITEM YC68…MEDIEVAL PEOPLE Eileen Power $9

ITEM YF89…THE FARMER FROM TEKOA [Amos] Herman Veldkamp $8

ITEM YJ55…THE SCRABBLE COMPANION Brandeth & Francis $17

ITEM ZQ11…THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS William S. McCartney $25

ITEM 0504…HEALING CODES FOR THE BIOLOGICAL APOCALYPSE Leonard Horowitz $35

[EC]ITEM 0507…A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE Ben-Sasson $55

ITEM 0524…STORIES DONE Mikal Gilmore $8

ITEM 0537…THE EVOLUTION CONSPIRACY Matrisciana & Oakland $9

ITEM 0641...ADMIRAL SOUCHON AUF GROSSER FAHRT signed by the admiral and numbered, number 1 of 875; dedication inscription to Karl-Georg von Harten; 1^st, 1^st    $2,399

MANUSCRIPT NOTES OR RESEARCH:

QUOTABLE QUOTES:

0617...“Beautiful girls are meant to be adored. After all they did not take on this form for nothing. But it is also necessary that such a one is able to handle her outer beauty by having inner beauty as well. The inner beauty consists of qualities such as graciousness, gentleness, kindness in speech and action. That is when she truly shines. A virtuous woman is beyond rubies. A man’s heart can safely trust in her.”

 - Enoch Mind Reality

0618...From a Swedish government report a friend just sent me:

"Individuals with high productivity (high income) can choose to imitate those with lower productivity, ie. work less and generate the same observable income as low-productivity individuals, and thus obtain a higher benefit through lower tax rate and more leisure time."

0619... “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

0629... "Buried within you is an unlimited capacity for creation, what James Allen calls a waking angel that's anxious to plant seedlings to fulfill your dreams and your destiny."  Dr. Wayne Dyer

SAVED LINKS:

0620...The real story of thanksgiving

http://www.manataka.org/page269.html#THE

0621...Map of world religions

http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-map-world-religions-2012-4

0622...Orgonite

http://www.facebook.com/waunch/posts/288911074516866#!/OrgoniteHealing

0623...Blue Car Racer review

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=10150766584009507&set=a.501747324506.277023.562394506&type=1&theater

0624...Arctic Ocean leaking methane

http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/world/arctic_ocean_leaking_methane_scientists_say/5ed6badc#.T5Xv1c8mxkg.facebook

0625...drugs and madness

http://www.alternet.org/health/155001/how_psychiatric_drugs_made_america_mad

MAENTWROG #37

                            TO CHRIST OUR LORD

How looks heaven now stung with brilliance, missing

   no minted gilded golden spoked wheel of fire, moted

of million-fold pointed pierced light eyelets singing

   where Michael by all that starry press is voted

most spiritual, principal, pre-eminent; a first-song

   to lesser breaking indivisible ray-notes, all save-

ing nor sparing crescendo of tiny flames heaven-long;

   never the blazing praise concluding the galactic octave!

   Lucifer is zealous in jealousy, self-smitten by pride;

  by his own heart wounded, his darkness must hide ---

         his stars now all the sand of earth.

         From my own dark grain let me birth

   my fallen star into a little light of mine;

  let me so shine, o Lord, to reflect thine!

                                          Copyright © 2003, K’lakokum

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Today’s book selections:

ITEM AA27…WE WILL NOT HANG OUR HARPS ON THE WILLOWS Barbel Von Wartenberg-Potter $4

[AC]ITEM AC15...RIEL: A LIFE OF REVOLUTION Maggie Siggins $22

[AD]ITEM AD10...THE IMAGINARY INDIAN Daniel Francis $10

[AD]ITEM AD11...INDIAN GOVERNMENT: ITS MEANING IN PRACTICE Cassidy & Bish $15

[AH]ITEM AH09…MUSHROOMS AND FUNGI  by Moira Savonius SOLD

In South of Tuk #12, Kangaroo Poet Norm wrote an article about the sacred mushroom in the art of Norval Morrisseau.  In Issue #59, Kangaroo Poet JHM wrote an article about the experience of colour under hallucination, such hallucination made possible by LSD, peyote, and the sacred mushroom.  In Issue #135, Kangaroo Poet K’lakokum discussed the magic mushroom in Morrisseau’s Warrior Finds Soma [24x 34n, 1979, catalogue raisonne number muaa]

The amanita muscaria which is believed to be the sacred or magic mushroom is described on pages 32 to 34 of this book.  It is used by the shaman to enter The House of Invention.  From the 9^th to 13^th century in Europe, it was widely believed that what Eve ate was not an apple, but the sacred mushroom.  This may have started as a Catholic device to keep people away from a consciousness-raising substance.  The Aztecs [who used it in their spiritual rituals] called it nanacatyl.  This book has 104 colour illustrations depicting the entire world of mushrooms and fungi. 1973 hardcover ISBN 0706401913 published by Octopus Books Limited London W1, printed by Mandarin Publishers Ltd. Hong Kong

[AH,]ITEM AH60...THE MANITOUS: SPIRITUAL WORLD OF THE OJIBWAY Basil Johnston $29

Spiritual tales, tribal teachings, and native legends are evocatively interwoven through the time-honoured oral tradition of the Ojibway.   Manitous are mysteries and spirits – the essences – that infuse and safeguard plants and animals, including humans, in all aspects of life.  These tales about them are simple in narration but complex in spirit, rich with incident and detail.  Here are tricksters, tree spirits, wise grandmothers, and seductive maidens.  Here we meet fearsome Windigos, the half-human half Manitou creatures who represent both of their worlds to the other side.  Here we find The Prophecy of changes in the world to come.  Most of these stories have never previously been written down.

ISBN 0060171995; 1995 stated first edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in near-new condition.

[AH]ITEM AN34a…THE BOOK OF THE HOPI Frank Waters $10

ITEM CK40...HEALING SOUNDS: THE POWER OF HARMONICS Jonathan Goldman $42

ITEM CK41...PLANET X, COMETS & EARTH CHANGES James M. McCanney $85

ITEM CK43...ATOMIC SUICIDE? Walter & Lao Russell $85

[CM,]ITEM CM10...AMERICAN SLAVERY 1619-1877 Peter Kolchin $4

ITEM DA13…Earth Rising II THE BETRAYAL OF SCIENCE SOCIETY & SOUL Begich & Roderick $19

[DC,]ITEM DC66...THE ELECTRIC NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE Walter Russell $17

ITEM LJ80…CONSPIRACIES, COVER-UPS AND CRIMES: POLITICAL MANIPULATION AND MIND CONTROL IN AMERICA Jonathan Vankin $17

Discusses conspiracy theory as it applies to such cases as the Kennedy assassination, the Jonestown massacre, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, and UFO sightings

1991 hardcover by Paragon House; ISBN 1557783845; Subject: Law & Government

ITEM MO28...THE BECOMERS Miller $4

[WB]ITEM WB10a…HOW TO INTERPRET YOUR OWN DREAMS Tom Chetwynd $9

ITEM YA08…THE SILENTS Charlotte Abrams $9

[AH]ITEM YB19…BIRTH OF A MODERN SHAMAN C. Bend & T. Wiger $9

[HE,]ITEM YB89...THE ENERGY EVOLUTION [FREE ENERGY/VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER] translated by Callum Coats $45

Author:  Viktor Schauberger  Publisher:  Gateway Books  ISBN-10:  1858600618

Subject:  Science & Technology  Format:  Paperback  Language:  English

Printing Year:  2001 Condition:  Very Good  Series: Eco-Technology Series

Editor: Callum Coats  Length: 160 pages

ITEM YD85…THE QUEST FOR THE TRUE CROSS Thiede & d’Ancona $6

By focusing on the fragment of the Titulus Crucis, the inscribed headboard from Christ's cross, the authors challenge the modern view that all supposedly holy relics are fakes by providing evidence that weaves together history, archaeology, myth, religion, and science, taking readers on a fascinating tour through the ancient world that might change their beliefs forever. Thiede and d'Ancona argue that the Santa Croce titulus--a fragment of the cross headboard that mockingly proclaimed Jesus the King of the Jews--is the genuine article.

2002 hardcover; ISBN 0312294247; on7307

ITEM YT98…EARTH LIGHTS REVELATION Paul Devereux $17

ITEM ZP11...DUMMY Ernest Tidyman $200

ITEM 0491…FROM ELVIS TO E-MAIL Paul Dickson $17

ITEM 0492…ALPHA MU OMEGA Iilazzandroff N. Chickalo $30

ITEM 0493…SCIENCE & UNREASON Radner & Radner $18

1982 softcover by Wadsworth Publishing; ISBN 0534011535; Subject: Science & Technology

ITEM 0494…THE BASIC WORKS OF ARISTOTLE McKeon $40

[CQ]ITEM 0584... FIREARMS OWNERSHIP AND USE IN CANADA: A REPORT OF SURVEY FINDINGS, 1976 Stenning/Moyer $10
Working papers of the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
ISBN 0919584519 hardcover, ex-library with much cover and spine wear and
usual markings, inside good, 1981,fair[non-fiction: true crime]

Electronic Items:

[AH]ITEM AH40...LIBEL AND SLANDER OF ART TITLE ISSUES $2

Ontario Small Claims Court File Number SC09-82782-00
Otavnik VS Sinclair RE: Norval Morrisseau painting “Jesuit Spreading the Word”
Final Plaintiff Submission [114 pages]
This is the document filed with the judge on April 15, 2009 and provides an excellent overview on libel and slander court precedents as they apply to published (including on the internet) commentary on the authenticity of art.

[AH]ITEM AH41...INJUNCTION AGAINST ART DEFAMATION $2

Ontario Superior Court of Justice File Number CV-08-00366828 Dec. 8, 2008

Judgement granting the plaintiffs an injunction restraining Ritchie Sinclair from comment on Norval Morrisseau art [16 pages]

McLeod, Bugera, White, Child & Kim vs Ritchie Sinclair

This judgement gives an excellent overview of precedents in law as they apply to achieving a balance between rights to free speech and rights to free trade.

MANUSCRIPT NOTES OR RESEARCH:

QUOTABLE QUOTES:

0592...English historian, Fraser-Tyler:  “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always vote for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."

0615...Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774_1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

0616... “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence.  It is force.  And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”—George Washington

AN EXISTENTIALIST POEM

AN EXISTENTIALIST POEM

pleasant word flow

smooth pleasure glow

cocoa in the snow

red cheeks of a doll

she, sledding to a fall

i, in mem’ry of it all

Copyright © 2003, K’lakokum

and the Word of Allah came to me: Shout these words at Washington

THE SECOND BOOK OF JEREMIAH (Chronicles of the Prophet)

0556...CHAPTER FOUR

and the Word of Allah came to me:

Shout these words at Washington:

Mind when we were at love

in this milk and honey land,

face to face!  Why do you shove

away still, as I still stand –

have you found adultery in me?

Can your judges’ and politicians’

ignorance husband you, or see

my law?  Can the transgressions

of your pastors embriden you?

Or, are you now twice-divorced:

first turning off the vortex fountain to

all affection, then carrying water forced

into a sieve?  You find no drink

or goodness there!  Evil and bitter

is such emptiness, yet you think

polluted waters are much fitter

drink than mine? Mind! how I broke

your bond to self-made gods and death!

Why do you seek, oh, why do you yoke

to stone and steel that has no breath?

See how polluted waters have polluted you –

you deny you are unclean?  Why

do you wash and scrub if not to

hide your shame?  And tho they try,

your home-made gods of stone and stick

shall ne’er astonish earth nor heaven,

nor ever learn such grand new trick

where panther will its spots unleaven!

Alas!  I’ve spanked you so in vain

-- you have accepted no correction –

alas, alone I’ve borne the pain

as you make bloody my every mission.

Shall I then take you bride again!!??

Copyright ©1974, 2012 K’lakokum 

[Jeremiah, the second witness to Jerusalem]

BLACK MILK: A LAMENT OF GERMANY

BLACK MILK: A LAMENT OF GERMANY

for Karl (black) 1924-1952,

for Paul (yellow) 1924-1976,

for Herbert (pink) 1924-2000;

three victims of the holocaust

black milk of your mourning

you drank in your evenings

to nourish you mid-day and morning and early

you drank and you drank

as you shoveled and dug

out a grave in the clouds

where you lie unpinched

Your ashen hair     yellow star as you dug

your own grave in the clouds

for your elbow room

black milk of the morning

you drank it nights

you drank it morning and mid-day and even

you drank and you drank

Your ashen hair     triangle pink as you dug

out a grave in the clouds

where you lie unpinched

my uncle in the house

played with your snakes

and wrote when it darkened

to Germany     your golden hair Herbert

and wrote it and stepped out

to whistle for his dogs

to whistle for his queers dig

out a grave in the earth

and whistled faggots, dance!

he cried dig deeper sing and play

and wielded the whip as his eyes were blue

dig deeper sing and play for me dance

my uncle in the house

played with your queues

play sweeter the death song

death is a master from Germany

who cries more softly your music

you’ll rise as the smoke to the clouds

of your grave

where you’ll lie unpinched

but writes in the house

your golden hair Herbie

he shouts his dogs upon you

and grants you a grave in the air

a grave in the smoke and the clouds

plays with the queues and writes

your golden hair Herbert

plays with the snakes and dreams

of a day without fear

your golden hair

but drafts in his fear

and plays in their hate

on his hate of their fear

and his fear of their hate

black uniformed in the morning

he slips up one morning

at the gate of the camp

at the head of the queue

where he screams recognition:

your golden hair, Herbert!

your golden hair

your ashen hair!

Copyright © 2003, K’lakokum

This is the introductory poem for an as yet unpublished novel about three Fryslan lads that meet as participating sopranos at a community glee club.  They reach puberty together.  They share a sexual orientation and a love for music – everything else tries to tear them apart.  Three gay lads – one a Jew, one a Nazi, one a murderer...

High School Exit Exam ANSWERS

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert
8) What colour is a purple finch? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand
10) What is the colour of the black box in a commercial
airplane? Orange (of course)
What do you mean, you failed?

LOVING YOURSELF REQUIRES HONESTY

Honesty is being clear and truthful to yourself and others about what you feel. Honesty prevents blockages from happening, because you are not hiding parts of yourself in shame. Honesty frees you to progress on your path and experience fully what you are and the choices you make. Honesty resolves all business right there and then. It is said and done, not hidden and carried around repressed for years upon years. The truth really does set you free. Being honest is the fastest way to resolve your problems.

Those who encounter recurring problems over and over again in their lives are not being honest with themselves and those areas. They are denying and hiding. They’re not facing and engaging things as they are. As long as the truth about a matter is being suppressed, it will seek to rise to the surface continually. The sooner you choose to handle something properly and fully, the sooner the issue gets cleared. You can tell when a person is not being honest as the problem seems to keep happening for them.
Honesty and awareness go hand in hand. When you are honest with how you think and feel about a matter, you become aware of what’s really going on within you and in the situation itself. But when you try to deny or make up unauthentic explanations, you keep yourself from having awareness of the truth. Awareness is the only solution to all problems, because understanding the problem dissolves the problem. The only way to have awareness is to be honest. Get to the core instead of fooling on pointlessly.

Honesty is about getting to the core and the essence. With honesty comes insight, which is the ability to see into the underlying nature of a thing. Honesty is the fastest and only true path of spiritual development. Those who are honest gain all the necessary awareness they can from everything they engage in whether be it a certain field of knowledge, a certain situation in life or a certain issue within themselves. Many people are not honest, so they’re ever learning but never coming to knowledge of the truth.

Being authentic is essential for increasing in awareness and becoming more conscious. Those who do not place truth above all else will always be trapped in illusions. Truth and love are one but the primary of the two is truth. The more truth you have, the more true your love is. Hiding the truth in love is not true love whether be it for self or for others. To be honest is the most loving thing you can do for yourself and for others. Being authentic empowers yourself and others with spiritually unhindered progress.

Being dishonest with others in your relationships with them will cause the same problems to recur over and over again with them. Stop sending mixed signals to others. Stop playing all your foolish games. Don’t say one thing and do another. Let them know where you stand clearly. Voice your likes and dislikes clearly. Don’t do anything half heartedly. Stop giving others ideas if you don’t intend on following through with them. Being honest will give you the best kind of relationships that most only dream of.

Too often we are not honest because we are afraid of hurting others or being hurt ourselves. But trying to prevent hurt by being dishonest will only create more hurt down the road. We are only hurt because of wrong thinking. The truth is any emotions we dislike are meant to be experienced fully as part of the whole matter. Only then can we move on to create anew from a place of truth and understanding. Truth may seem like it hurts sometimes, but it is the only thing that will set you free for real progress.

Honesty is about solving problem at its roots. A situation will only continue to go in the direction where the hidden issue is driving it towards, no matter how much attempt is made at covering it up. Lying or image carrying will not save a marriage that is going to the wrecks. Cordialness and reassurance will not help a business relationship that involves conflict of principles and characters of the partners. When you are honest, you solve all problems right at the core. You do not create further nonsense from it.

If you have an issue with someone or something, deal with it there and then. Do not hold off talking about it with the person you need to talk to, or hold off taking the action you’re supposed to take. Leaving it hanging would only mean that more unconscious factors are added to it, which need to be resolved later. You cannot walk away from an issue hoping that it will just go away. It won’t, because all problems are created within you and can only be resolved by facing that part of you along with those involved.

Those who are foolish will remain in their dishonesty and blindness from the truth. Those who are wise will see into the underlying nature of a thing and engage it head on. The most powerful and loving people are the most truthful. The least powerful and least loving people are the least truthful. Truth and love are one. You can only be as loving as you are authentic. Those who are most authentic have the truest love of all. A lesser hurt is as healing compared to a greater hurt. Truth always leads to healing.

Be aware first and foremost, of your thoughts, words, actions and feelings. Then be honest to yourself and others about them. This will progress you through blockages and limitations faster than you can imagine. It will resolve all issues faster than you can imagine. It will set you free more than you can imagine. What you resist persists. Honesty handles everything that comes your way without resistance by feeling and experiencing it fully. Without resistance, all that you desire flows to you fast and freely.