A message from Reinhard Reitzenstein '96 re'95

HI! HOPED TO HAVE WRITTEN LONG BEFORE THIS AND IN BETTER SPIRIT -> IN ANSWER TO YOUR STATE -> MAP OF CLAIM SITE -> LOOKS LIKE CLAIMS HAVE BEEN MADE ON YOUR CONTINUITY + LIKE THE LAND YOU WISH TO RESCUE YOU ARE IN DISTRESS + THREATENED -> I HOPE YOU 3 ARE IN BETTER STATES -> IN 1996 -> 1995 HAS BEEN THE YEAR FROM HELL FOR ME > US -> A SYNOPSIS IS AS FOLLOWS -> NEW YEAR '95 OPENED WITH OUR LOCAL TRAIN STATION BURNING DOWN -> THEN MY MOM DIAGNOSED WITH KIDNEY CANCER -> MOVED IN WITH US TO RECOVER FROM SURGERY SHE GOT SICKER AND SICKER AND DIED IN OUR HOUSE WITH US BESIDE HER ->STROKING HER FOREHEAD AS SHE MOVED INTO THE LIGHT -> I'M STILL RECOVERING /GRIEVING/FRIGHTENED/HURT -> MY OWN BODY STILL IN PAIN ON MY RIGHT SIDE -> GRAUALLY IMPROVING BUT SLOW -> GUELPH UNIVERSITY HAS NO WORK FOR ME, BROCK UNIVERSITY DIDN'T EITHER -> I WAS GIVEN TWO PUBLIC COMMISSIONS-> _BOTH_ TAKEN AWAY ON THE POLITICAL LEVEL SCREWING MY INCOME FOR OVER ONE YEAR -> BROKE, DISCOURAGED, DISAPPOINTED, ANGRY, FRUSTRATED, SAD, I PLODDED ON IN A STATE SO DOWN LIKE NEVER BEFORE -> SO NOW I ATTEMPT TO RECOUP -> RE-DRESS -> RE-EXAMINE -> RE-STORE -> RE-THINK -> RE-BUILD SOME THINGS ARE LOOKING UP BUT IT'S SLOW WITHOUT GAYLE'S INCOME WE'D BE FUCKED! -> ALL GRANTS I APPLIED FOR WERE ALSO REFUSED -> SO IT'S A TIME OF MADNESS AND INNER RE-STRUCTURING -> RE-DEFINING PRIORITIES -> WE PLOD ON -> THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WRITE -> BUT TODAY I FOUND YOUR LETTER OF FEB '95 (ONE YEAR AGO) WHAT A YEAR -> I HOPE THIS GETS TO YOU AT THE VICTORIA ADDRESS?? I HOPE YOU'RE HANGING ON -> WE TRYING IN THESE TRYING TIMES THANKS FOR THE EAGLE FEATHER -> TIPLESS -> IT'S LOOKING FOR DIRECTION -> MAYBE WE MUST APPLY THE TIP FROM OUR OWN EXPERIENCE + HOPE -> I BOUND THE SHAFT LAST WEEK IT IS WITH MY MEDICINE NOW -> THANKS AGAIN -> ENCLOSED IS A ZEROX OF A BRONZE TREE I CAST IN '95 IN HONOUR OF LIFE + MY MOTHER IT HAS A HUMAN SPINE NEAR THE ROOTS -> TOGETHER A NEW SPECIES -> IT'S CALLED 'ARBOR-VITAE' (TREE OF LIEF) IT'S A TOUGH TIME HANG ON! WE'RE TAKING KARATE AS A FAMILY TO CHANNEL ANGER + FRUSTRATION + DEFENCE! IT'S WORKING IN PEACE REINER+

Notes from Bruno Manser '94/95

A note from Bruno Manser:
DEAR DAVID
ALL THE BEST TO RIEKO AND SHEORI
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ENCLOSED ALSO OUR NEWSLETTER _ I HAVE BEEN IN SARAWAK
FOR A SHORT VISIT - TOUCHED!
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES - POLITICS
ARE LIKE GUM. BUT PEOPLE MAKE IT.
IT'S UP TO THE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW THE ROVE OF LIFE BYE~BRUNO

From Right to Left then.... Mutang Urud, Penan Chief, Sheori, Rieko, Mutang Param






18th NOVEMBER 1994

DEAR DAVID
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YOUR WORK WITH CLAY TOUCHES MY PERCEPTION
AND FROM THE PAST A PIECE OF LIFE RISES TO
PRESENT (1979, SERBIA).

ALONE IN THE FOREST ~ NIGHT ~ DARKNESS ~
JUST SHADOWS ~ THERE'S A STRANGE SOUND
BLBB' ~ BLBBBLBBB' ~ BLBB'
MY EAR FOLLOWS ~ UNTILL IT TOUCHES
THE SOIL ~ IT COME'S OUT OF THE SOIL.
WITH MY HANDS I CAREFULLY DIG IN THE
CLAY ~ TOUCH IT ~ EAT IT ~ THERE'S SOME FLOW ~
DROPS OF WATER ~ I DRINK IT ~ THE EARTH
OUTSIDE OF ME BECOMES INSIDE ~ INTERCONNECTION
I AM THE WTER - I AM THE CLAY ~ I AM THE EARTH ~
WE'RE ALL ONE ~
I OPEN MY EYES ~ I AM ALL QUIET ~
OUT OF THE DARKNESS OF THE LEAVES
THE UR-MOTHER LOOKS AT ME ~ HER
FACE FULL OF BEAUTY ~ KNOWLEDGE ~TRUTH
LIVED VISIONS ARE REALITY
BYE BROTHER ~


EINHORN
GR
AUTUMN 1982
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Page 7 of THAT SPOT Journal -from August '95

It's unclear who made this entry,
but it speaks well of the becoming

After many Cookies, David's Van
on the Spaztic, tricky, _trip_ back,
became a bouncing bubble of crazed
insane giggle madness. Gleefully
glad from a day of doing.

Anonymous entry.

Reading below, the next entry in the journal
I assure you there were bears on site.
They just weren't seen that day.

I also found cougar tracks.

One rarely sees a cougar.
Personally, only once. But
that's another story.

Conceiving and THAT SPOT

Serine and Turtle were wonderful young contributors out at the mouth of the Kennedy River. She wrote a number of entries in the site's journal. They loved the place... and each other... through the site. Serine bore Turtle's child conceived on the land.

Almost a year later, another couple I met in Vancouver and brought to the site for a weekend visit to escape the city, also conceived a child on the land, while they were there. That's two babies born to two couples. Conception revealing opportunity, the second pregnancy counted to dismiss the woman from her obligation to stand trial in the Gustafsen Lake blockade court battle.

The Spot That

The Secret to Flying is to throw yourself at the Earth and miss.



























































<<<<< What THAT SPOT looked like the day we made it.
Divizio removing the temporary blue tarp, Poole looking up through the roof.
The White tarp in the photo is directly above where we would ultimately build our kiln.
(see photo at the end of this Blog entry)






<<<< THAT SPOT as seen on Google Earth.
Our Trip to the Kiln.
(Tues, Sept 5th, '95)
Stacy, Loren, Dave and Turtle
We bump along past second growth |\
Turtle yelling directions from the back of Poole's Van.
We are on our way to the kiln to string a tarp and make a roof.
Just came from a brief stop at the dump_ took a couple tires off a derelict Chevy van_like Pooles.
We searched the place and found a heavy fibre rope.
Stacy
<<<< The Kiln we created at THAT SPOT -1995