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#3cccJournal2TwittBook SPRING 1972: I’m in Halifax with Robert and Elizabeth. Robert got a gig with the city of Halifax to do poetry 0240

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..readings at local high schools and in the park downtown. He knew I played the flute well enough to improvise 0241

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..musically as he reads, so he invited me to work with him. At one High School auditorium where we were to 0242

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..perform, I remember an unexpected, overwhelming sense of foreboding, a heavy, evil atmosphere hanging in the 0243

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..air. Robert noticed it too. Both of us were beginning to get creeped out so we asked some kids if anything had 0244

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..happened there recently. The kids told us that a satanic ritual was performed on stage by kids who were into 0245

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..satanism. Evidently it was some teacher’s idea of religious tolerance. At some point I had to part ways with 0246

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Robert and Elizabeth. There were always verbal disagreements between them and the continual arguing was 0247

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..wearing. I met Scott Smith a blues guitar player, another expatriate from the states. We make great music 0248

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..together, with me accompanying him on the blues harp. Scott and I like to visit Dave and Janet Romeril. They 0249

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..live outside Halifax, less than a mile from the ocean. Dave is a professor at Dalhousie and a defrocked 0250

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Episcopal priest too. Don’t know why he’s been defrocked and decided not to ask. I would go hiking on the 0251

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..barrens around their property and one day got this idea that Scott and I should build an A-Frame on a lake, a 0252

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..short hike from the Romeril’s. We could cover the A-Frame with plastic, playing music and writing about the 0253

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..experience while living there through the winter. Since it was Crown Land, I wrote to the Canadian government 0254

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..and told them the intent of our project, asking if we could build a temporary A-frame on the lake. 0255

#3cccJournal2TwittBook SUMMER 1972: To my utter amazement, the Canadian government wrote back.  In their letter they said “Yes, you can 0256

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..build a temporary 2X4 and plastic A-frame, as long as you remove all traces of it by June of 1973”. WOW! The 0257

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..barrens where we’ll build are just that, a barren wilderness with no houses or development whatsoever.  Just 0258

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..LOTS of rocks, boulders and scrub, occasionally broken up by small lakes and hills. From any high point I can 0259

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..see the ocean. The lake where we are going to build is fairly large by Nova Scotia standards, maybe 1/2 mile 0260

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..long but narrow in most places. LATE SUMMER 1972: As we were building the A-frame one of the locals hiked in 0261

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..to see what we were doing. Fortunate for us, because as he pointed out, “You guys ain’t never built a house 0262

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..before!”. He showed us how to cut and nail in 45 degree angled reinforcing struts, so it wouldn’t collapse 0263

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..like a cardboard box with no top or bottom. To keep the whole structure from blowing away in a North Eastern 0264

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..gale, we drove pointed 4X4’s deep into the earth and then two 2X4’s, one on either side of each 4X4 earth 0265

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..anchor, at a 45 degree angle, and nailed to the 4X4. The 4X4’s held up our floor joists. After we tacked the 0266

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..clear greenhouse type plastic covering to the 2X4 roof rafters with lathing and installed our cheap tin “Air- 0267

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Tight” wood heater, it felt like home. Well, it felt like home until our first windy night. It was then we 0268

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..experienced our first indoor “rain”. Never thought about condensation. The simple solution was to 0269

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..tack up an inside second layer to provide a vapor barrier. 0270

#3cccJournal2TwittBook FALL 1972: Scott and I moved into our A-frame in September and immediately felt the freedom and joy of living 0271

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..RENT-FREE! Our mutual creative goals include a “No Drugs” policy. Actually, I began moving away from drugs in 0272

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..California, back in June of 1969, when I started doing daily morning meditations and Yoga Asanas. So, 5:30 am 0273

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..each day I’ve been getting up to do my Asanas and meditation. There have been a few fierce storms. I honestly 0274

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..thought the A-frame would blow away with us in it. The flapping of the plastic is so loud during a storm that 0275

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..we can’t be heard unless we yell at the top of our lungs to one another. But our plastic see-through home has 0276

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..its compensations. During full moon there is an eerie silvery light inside. It  seems like it’s been magnified 0277

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..by the qualities of the plastic. And being able to see outside allows us to see animals roaming about on 0278

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..moonlit nights. In gentle steady breezes, with my back propped up against the plastic between our 2X4 studs, 0279

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..I feel one with the house as it breathes gently in and out. WINTER 1972: It’s been extremely cold this winter. 0280

#3cccJournal2TwittBook Our lake has remained frozen for over a month now. As the temperature drops through the night we hear the ice 0281

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..cracking. It’s like rifle shots that echo off canyon walls, only the echo stretches far to the horizon, 0282

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..diminishing in intensity but splitting off left and right as the crack forks and fades into the distance. I 0283

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..just love that sound every time it happens. A friend of mine, Adrianne, is trying to get Scott and I to allow 0284

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..her to stay here from spring to June. We’ve decided to go to Bear River around the first of April. But since I 0285

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..was the one that wrote the letter to the Canadian government and got permission, I’m the one that has to make 0286

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..sure the deal is not reneged on. Not sure whether she would follow through, dismantling and hauling away all 0287

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..the building materials, as per my agreement. I can’t afford to get in trouble with the government! 0288

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