First Steps
The curtain's closed on our first act
the page has turned,the score has changed
and on our route the benchmarks point
away from things that caused us pain
Awake each day to new beginnings
turn away from used to be's
Focus on the time that's left us
Happier now with what we see
Together for the time remaining
sharing life as day by day
our love filled hearts are more sustaining
with lives now lived no other way
Lifetimes spent to find the other
And mountains climbed to reach their side
with vistas reaching there before us
We always knew that we'd arrive
New journies will be done together
miles to go, we'll walk in grace
that holds us safe from troubled waters
our meaning found in our embrace
kayaky
The Susanator
Where in the world
did she come from?
sheltered from the world
kept in recluse
suddenly she was among us
The Susanator, lean and graceful
extra extra small with big while teeth
and the smile to match
The Susanator is nimble
front flipping on her trampoline
with so much ease
early to rise, and early to bed
and much too good in your bed
when she's there
a whirlwind in the kitchen
like the Tasmanian devil
whipping up banana bread
so you can see how easy it is
The Susanator sweeps into a room
and the eyeballs start to roll
or pop depending on the gender
Shes too thin, too happy
too smart, too atheletic
too good a mother, too efficient
just too damned good to be true
The Susanator will affect
everything she sees with her
well presented heads up screen
she'll choose...
"have a great day" or
"hellooooooo" and smile
And in the drive through,
rolling her stops
to the beat of a differnt bongo
music pumping too loud and too hip
too much, too much, too much
SO Who will love the Susanator?
who can keep up with her?
and her sweaty workout highs
and her500 calorie runs
lessor mortals fear to tread
for perfection is never sweet
only bitter
Since it can rarely be so well
attained
You can't beat the Susanator
at her own game
you can only play your own
and hope she'll come along
and if she does..
you'll be a happy man
kayaky
Jealousy
The wild heart cries out like a lone wolf
howling at the moon of an ancient sky
feelings rise from their shallow graves
haunting smug veneer and inner peace
disturbing now what was sheltered then
in empty caves - with groceries delivered
never safe from rivals or unfaithfulness
we're born vigilant and a stones throw away
The mind reels at what was old and is new again
an inexplicable flush of green envy
from deep hearts well - in an oasis from flatness
anxious concerns about losing something real
never happy alone - never free from need
bathed in fear and trepidation
it thinks, it ponders, it rationalizes until
there is relief in balance, if nothing else
as life goes on
If that shone like a beacon, clear to all
free from apprehensive darkness,
unencumbered by dangerous hidden meanings
warped thoughts would straighten in natural light
and comfort us by the kind deeds it revealed
so modern animals - humans
soothed by the day's touch and warmth
would be left undistracted
by the possibilities or probabilities
or awareness of irresistable forces
and immovable objects
found in deep memories of ancient skies
and be left, once again happy, in love
kayaky
Knots
Impure thoughts, may sweep in and take us
Far far away, from our goals
And our dreams, take lessor status
letting passions grow more cold
But we're not living lives in endless little circles
and we aren't going to be stopped by such bonds of little purpose
Just take a deep breath and let go
Its not the doubts that hold us but ourselves you know
Gordian knots are how we make them
that tie us up and tie us down
And so it seems that we can't break them
giving up, too easily
But we're not going to live our lives in quiet desperation
Weíll pick ourselves right up off the ground and look for inspiration
Take first steps and then go
Until we do, weíll never know
Knots are tied but we can shake them
Silver cords canít hold us down
And those doubts wonít overtake us
Because our love has grown too strong
The future in store for us will be a thing of beauty
Each morning that we wake up will remind us of our duty
To live life to its fullest, and give love to each other
And thatís what bonds us together, away from knots that bind
Or Limits set by tethers
kayaky
Time Traveling
time travels back and forth
messing with our minds
but no one knows
the time or place
only remembered moments
powerful when recalled
cause us to wince
and relive flashes of reality
what was seen
what was felt
existing now as we existed then
may die when we die
or like leather clad
books on a musty shelf
cling to the knowledge
without its power,
preserving a memory
without consequence
free from guilt
kayaky
Between Us
Things between us cannot be seen, nor can they be heard
No dangerous words too hot in frigid lands
like gental touching - skin on skin by urgent longing hands
Or voices that beseech us in a dimly lit recess
encouraging our lips and tongue to places never guessed
Things between us cannot be seen or heard
unseen - the redness, unfelt the wetness
of swollen parts that ache and crave their desperate release
unheard gasping bodies lying blissful once they're spent
Unread minds, not of this world - ecstatic, heaven sent
those things that come are between us, unknown
and too powerful for mated souls
unknown musk beneath a moon soaked in sultry sounding jazz
unspeakable candlelit moments which dare to be cried out
As they are between us and no one else
Stripped of daily burdens - painful memories are obscured
by love and lust imagined - then unknown, by us procured
kayaky
When the lights go down
Close your eyes my love
when the lights go down
see only what you can remember
Bright like the desert sand
see me 'cause I can see
only you
Hold me tight my love
when the lights go down
feel your heart and you will remember
wonderful days
Holding me, like I'm holding you
in love forever
Kiss me my love
when the lights go down
with love like no other remembered
just wonderful ways
spent loving each day
of our lives in love together
kayaky
Gatineau Love
Between us the past -
warmed back to back in the fireside light
sharing a mat on our lac phillip night
We shivered and smiled with Coq au Vin wafting
while warming our souls with cool red wine
each crackle and cackle cemented the moment
to the icey crisps underfoot
with steady conspicuously knowing smiles
we watched the moonshadows stretch over eerie snow
'twas no better place nor time for yet one more story
which began in Gatineau's glory
with skiis, and snowshoe delights
just two friends finding friends
and a partner for life
kayaky*********Have a Nice Day**********
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Kipawa, Tabaret, and Opemican
Kipawa Dam: After
Where is the Kipawa
Kipawa Dam
Tabaret is a Bad Idea
About the Kipawa
The best thing paddlers can do to help the cause of the Kipawa:
1. attend the rally and bring others including non paddlers to attend and buy beer and have fun
2. write your MP /MNA and raise the issue and post your objections -1 letter = 200 who didn't write
3. Write Thierry Vandal the CEO of Hydro Quebec strongly opposing the 132 MW standard decrying the use of "diversion" as the most environmentally inappropriate method of power production
4. Write Jean Charest, Premier of Quebec protesting that either the algonquin or the tabaret project will eliminate all other values on the Kipawa River by turning it into a dry gulch.
5. See if you can get other allied groups interested by showing your own interest, ie the Sierra Defense Fund, Earthwild, MEC, and so on.
6. Demand further consultation
7. Currently we are at the point where we need to sway public opinion and raise awareness.
However, if all else fails, don't get mad, simply disrupt, foment, and protest . The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Have you read Edward Abbey?
Important Addresses
CEO,Hydro Québec, 75 boul René Levesque, Montreal, P.Q., H2Z 1A4Caille.andre@hydro.qc.ca
The best thing paddlers can do to help the cause of the Kipawa:
1. attend the rally and bring others including non paddlers to attend and buy beer and have fun
2. write your MP /MNA and raise the issue and post your objections -1 letter = 200 who didn't write
3. Write Thierry Vandal the CEO of Hydro Quebec strongly opposing the 132 MW standard decrying the use of "diversion" as the most environmentally inappropriate method of power production
4. Write Jean Charest, Premier of Quebec protesting that either the algonquin or the tabaret project will eliminate all other values on the Kipawa River by turning it into a dry gulch.
5. See if you can get other allied groups interested by showing your own interest, ie the Sierra Defense Fund, Earthwild, MEC, and so on.
6. Demand further consultation
7. Currently we are at the point where we need to sway public opinion and raise awareness.
However, if all else fails, don't get mad, simply disrupt, foment, and protest . The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Have you read Edward Abbey?
Important Addresses
CEO,Hydro Québec, 75 boul René Levesque, Montreal, P.Q., H2Z 1A4Caille.andre@hydro.qc.ca
Tabaret is a Bad Idea (Part Two)
Les Amis de la Riviere Kipawa is poised to use an application to the Federal Court to issue a Writ of Mandamus to ensure the Minster does what he is supposed to do, protect the public's right to navigate the water control structure at Laniel, Quebec using the Navigable Waters Protection Act. (see http://www.kipawariver.ca/)
In the now gutted Navigable Waters Protection Act lay the means by which the Minister of Transport could keep the public right of passage down our great Canadian Heritage, our rivers and streams which are threatened especially by resource corporations and power brokers such as Hydro Quebec.
These powerful entities continue to petition that 'this' river or 'that' stream is not navigable and therefore not protectable.
I don't say that dams and bridges should not be built, only that if they are, historical navigation rights should be considered and preserved by making reasonable accommodations for recreational boaters.
It is the Minister of Transport, in exercising the right to allow or disallow work on or over a navigable waterway is what keeps boats and recreational boaters plying our waterways.
To many recent cases launched in the Federal Court concerning the Navigable Waters Protection Act, most recently the case of the Humber Environment Group of Cornerbrook Newfoundland versus the Cornerbrook Pulp and Paper Company indicates that the important oversight is not being faithfully performed. Have we really come to the point now where we must say "such and such a stream is one foot deep, possessing so many cubic feet per second flow and so on?" The answer to this is... YES!
The honourable Mr. Justice John A. O'Keefe, ruled that it had not been shown that the river was navigable. How convenient was that to the Minister? But either the Minister of Transport acts to protect our rivers and streams as a public right or he does not and that means rivers and streams currently enjoyed by kayakers and canoists.
Enough of the cheating, and double-talk. Canadians! our rivers and streams are our own, lets urge the Minister of Transport and the our government to protect them.
Peter Karwacki
In the now gutted Navigable Waters Protection Act lay the means by which the Minister of Transport could keep the public right of passage down our great Canadian Heritage, our rivers and streams which are threatened especially by resource corporations and power brokers such as Hydro Quebec.
These powerful entities continue to petition that 'this' river or 'that' stream is not navigable and therefore not protectable.
I don't say that dams and bridges should not be built, only that if they are, historical navigation rights should be considered and preserved by making reasonable accommodations for recreational boaters.
It is the Minister of Transport, in exercising the right to allow or disallow work on or over a navigable waterway is what keeps boats and recreational boaters plying our waterways.
To many recent cases launched in the Federal Court concerning the Navigable Waters Protection Act, most recently the case of the Humber Environment Group of Cornerbrook Newfoundland versus the Cornerbrook Pulp and Paper Company indicates that the important oversight is not being faithfully performed. Have we really come to the point now where we must say "such and such a stream is one foot deep, possessing so many cubic feet per second flow and so on?" The answer to this is... YES!
The honourable Mr. Justice John A. O'Keefe, ruled that it had not been shown that the river was navigable. How convenient was that to the Minister? But either the Minister of Transport acts to protect our rivers and streams as a public right or he does not and that means rivers and streams currently enjoyed by kayakers and canoists.
Enough of the cheating, and double-talk. Canadians! our rivers and streams are our own, lets urge the Minister of Transport and the our government to protect them.
Peter Karwacki
Tabaret is a Bad Idea (Part Three)
10 Reasons WhyTabaret is a Bad Idea1) Tabaret is too big. The station is designed to useevery drop of water available in the Kipawawatershed, but will run at only 44 percent capacity.We believe the Tabaret station is designed to usewater diverted from the Dumoine River into theKipawa watershed in the future.
2) The Tabaret project will eliminate the aquaticecosystem of the Kipawa River.The Tabaret project plan involves the diversion of a16-km section of the Kipawa River from its naturalstreambed into a new man-made outflow from LakeKipawa.
3) Tabaret will leave a large industrial footprint on thelandscape that will impact existing tourismoperations and eliminate future tourism potential.
4) The Tabaret project is an aggressive single-purposedevelopment, designed to maximize powergeneration at the expense of all other uses.
5) River-diversion, such as the Tabaret project, takinglarge amounts of water out of a river’s naturalstreambed and moving it to another place, is verydestructive to the natural environment.
6) The Kipawa River has been designated a protectedgreenspace in the region with severe limitations ondevelopment. This designation recognizes theecological, historical and natural heritage value ofthe river and the importance of protecting it.Tabaret will eliminate that value.
7) If necessary, there are other, smarter and morereasonable options for producing hydro power onthe Kipawa watershed. It is possible to build a lowimpactgenerating station on the Kipawa river, andmanage it as a “run-of-the-river” station, makinguse of natural flows while maintaining other values,with minimal impact on the environment.
8) The Kipawa watershed is a rich natural resource forthe Temiscaming Region, resonably close to largeurban areas, with huge untapped potential fortourism and recreation development in the future.Tabaret will severely reduce this potential.
9) Tabaret provides zero long-term economic benefitfor the region through employment. The plan is forthe station to be completely automated andremotely operated.
10) The Kipawa River is 12,000 years old. The riverwas here thousands of years before any peoplecame to the region. The Tabaret project will change all that.
Problems on a local River?
- There is more to do as well but you have to do your research and above all, don't give up.
- IN the meantime prepared a document itemizing the history of navigation of this spot and its recreational value. Use the Kipawa river history of navigation as a guide: see www.kipawariver.ca
- Under the Ministry of Environment guidelines you have a set period of time to petition the change under the environmental bill of rights, you may have limited time to take this action. But it involves going to court for a judicial review of the decision.
- 4. contact the ministry of natural resources officials and do the same thing.
- 3. contact the ministry of the environment and determine if they approved the project
- 2. determine if the dam was a legal dam, approved under the navigable waters protection act.
- 1. research the decision and timing of it to determine if an environmental assessment was done.
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