Echoes of Life
Registered by uppity of Chilliwack, British Columbia Canada on 6/28/2013
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.Sharran Windwalker is a Sto:lo First Nation Poet.Sto:lo. People of the river. ABOUT THE AUTHOR-- Sharran Windwalker.Sharran was born November 20, 1964 in Fredericton, New Brunswick,Canada where he lived his first three years before moving to B.C. In 1974 he moved to Chilliwack where his grandfather had a farm in the foothills of Promontory/Ryder Lake area. There, Sharran came into first hand contact with nature and life as it exists outside the human fishbowl, so to speak. At Watson Elementary, the local grade school, Sharran met Don Gillis, a wonderful teacher who saw his innate abilities and encouraged him to believe that he could succeed in life, despite his handicaps. Sharran is a "natural" kind of natural person. For example, he won't drive a car, preferring to walk or bicycle wherever he goes, and moulding the procurement of his simple needs around these two basic modes of transportation. Hence, Sharran senses much more of the world around him than do most people. This keen environmental awareness is reflected in much of his poetry, giving it poignancy and freshness. A lover, a philosopher, a loner... a misfit in man's system of orderly chaos, Sharran interprets many of our inner thoughts about ourselves and our thorny relationship to our natural environment. He forces us to ask questions about where our lust to convert natural resources into money and to control everything we touch, is leading us. Add his sense of humour and you see Sharran as a kind of throw-back to the days of the lonely travelling troubadours, telling stories of adventure and love, with themselves as the perennial observers, often denied personal involvement in the dramas they so vividly described, filling their own emptiness with vicarious experiences through words and passing relationships; struggling for existence with this most mis- understood and under-valued gift which does so much to balance an otherwise shallow experience of human life.
.Sharran Windwalker is a Sto:lo First Nation Poet.Sto:lo. People of the river. ABOUT THE AUTHOR-- Sharran Windwalker.Sharran was born November 20, 1964 in Fredericton, New Brunswick,Canada where he lived his first three years before moving to B.C. In 1974 he moved to Chilliwack where his grandfather had a farm in the foothills of Promontory/Ryder Lake area. There, Sharran came into first hand contact with nature and life as it exists outside the human fishbowl, so to speak. At Watson Elementary, the local grade school, Sharran met Don Gillis, a wonderful teacher who saw his innate abilities and encouraged him to believe that he could succeed in life, despite his handicaps. Sharran is a "natural" kind of natural person. For example, he won't drive a car, preferring to walk or bicycle wherever he goes, and moulding the procurement of his simple needs around these two basic modes of transportation. Hence, Sharran senses much more of the world around him than do most people. This keen environmental awareness is reflected in much of his poetry, giving it poignancy and freshness. A lover, a philosopher, a loner... a misfit in man's system of orderly chaos, Sharran interprets many of our inner thoughts about ourselves and our thorny relationship to our natural environment. He forces us to ask questions about where our lust to convert natural resources into money and to control everything we touch, is leading us. Add his sense of humour and you see Sharran as a kind of throw-back to the days of the lonely travelling troubadours, telling stories of adventure and love, with themselves as the perennial observers, often denied personal involvement in the dramas they so vividly described, filling their own emptiness with vicarious experiences through words and passing relationships; struggling for existence with this most mis- understood and under-valued gift which does so much to balance an otherwise shallow experience of human life.
Journal Entry 2 by uppity at Gwynne Vaughan Park in Chilliwack, British Columbia Canada on Sunday, June 28, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (6/28/2015 UTC) at Gwynne Vaughan Park in Chilliwack, British Columbia Canada
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