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23 February 2021 – Un canadien errant revient

February 23, 2021 by DonnaHebert

Photo of Bob in front of the big fiddle in Sydney, just after I applied for my official Nova Scotia ID on Monday. We brought a picnic lunch from the Dancing Goat and ate it in the car so we and lunch didn’t blow away. Bob would have taken my photo but my hair was being whirled by some fierce and strong northern winds. He had no such problem but could have used a hat. He took heed of the sign and made no attempt to climb the fiddle.

© 2021 Donna Hébert, all rights reserved.

After more than six uninterrupted months in Cape Breton, I feel more Canadian every day, so much so that we are applying in a few weeks for my permanent residency here. The attorney who is helping us is making sure this is done right the first time. By being efficient and timely, we are saving money and precious time. To begin with, I would have tried to file the wrong form, so there’s that. 

There’s also the relief of having someone to ask “So, exactly what DO they mean by this question?” as well as someone to make sure the same questions receive the same answers throughout the process of filling them in over and over in many forms. She reassures us that it’s tedious but doable, a thorough, by-the-book process and we just need to pile up documents and letters. I’ve obtained a Nova Scotia ID card and filed for my FBI check and found proof of my divorces. At 72, the girl has mileage, but at least no rap sheet other than a few traffic violations. Fingers crossed, and boy, do I feel very fortunate to be able to make this application. I know just how lucky I am and my fingers are still crossed!

Here’s the funny bit. I never thought I’d be changing borders in my seniority or that I might want to hang on to the ancient history of my divorce decree from my first husband, God rest him. I was grateful the other husbands were alive and that they cheerfully provided proof we were no longer wed, since my copies are in Massachusetts. It’s a good thing as well that Canada is only asking me to go back ten years. How would I supply addresses for where I lived in my twenties? How many times did I move? And how many lousy jobs did I do so I could play music at night? Memory draws a merciful curtain.

One delightful task asked of us was to collect a variety of photos of us doing things with people we know. That was really fun, remembering the good times and writing captions. “Proving” our relationship to Canadian Immigration this way gives us a chance to look at the pieces of our relationship closely, to see the date on the wedding cake next to my bouquet on the table, to see our friend Jane’s living room full of people who love us and were there to wish us well. These are friends we already miss and vow to stay connected to no matter what. Another requirement was to list our friends and family who knew about us and supported the relationship and the attorney said our list was far too long for what Immigration needs to see. We are blessed with many friends on both sides of the border.

This very border is something my ancestors crossed unwillingly in 1755 before it even existed and was a line on a map they passed through many times after it separated two sovereign states. Most who stayed in America just walked across or took a train to work the mills of New England before 1930. They left behind family, land, and over three generations, their French language. It was just easier. With that went much of the culture they carried and I’ve hungered for that since childhood, returning over and over to Québec to find the missing pieces of who I am. Now I’m planted firmly in Acadia, where it seems my people began their association with North America in the early 1600s. Adventurous lot. Gratefully bolstered in the 21st century by central heating and a full larder, I embark on my own adventure. 

Like the pandemic, this will be a year of waiting with a hopeful ending. We await a few final documents before filing the application and once it’s done, we sit tight for a year. Soon, I’ll be able to call one place home, to feel grounded, rooted here. I’m going to get a jump start on that this spring, when I’ll put my hands into northern earth and make some nice tall sunflowers grow. 

Un Canadien errant revient.

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11-25-2020 – A Doggedly Grateful Thanksgiving

November 25, 2020 by DonnaHebert

There’s still a lot to be worried about right now but some things are beginning to look better. A vaccine is coming and a cruelly uncaring president is going, neither soon enough to save lives or to satisfy the need for immediate change. 
January 20 is already bringing with it a breath of fresh air in the character and skill of the incoming team. I know it’s been an awful year, truly awful, but here’s how we are giving thanks for what we have . . .
 
We are blessed to have each other and are thankful that each day brings new joys and laughter, isolation notwithstanding. Only a few of our friends contracted this virus and we lost Gene Shay, a longtime Philadelphia DJ and a beloved founder of the Philly Folk Festival. Gene was an early casualty, succumbing to complications from COVID, while other friends who’ve had it have recovered. Bob and I remain healthy here in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, inside a somewhat shaky bubble with New Brunswick. Both PEI and and Newfoundland have pulled up the portcullis unless we’re essential. Nova Scotia this morning had 87 active cases, 37 of them new since yesterday, mostly in the Halifax/Central area. 
 
Bob and I will likely curtail our time in public or with friends until the transmission rate goes down. For now, we’ll do food shopping and other necessaries. I fear that if it shows up here, the hospitals will be overwhelmed. Shutting down the island is impossible – we are not a province (and that’s a whole other essay or two) and cannot do it on our own. The only way to protect us is to keep the virus away.
 
We’ve both had our flu shots and await the vaccine and we have meds to see us into the spring. Of course, we worry about our families and friends in the U.S. They are all sensible and make smart choices for themselves and their families and still we worry about them, just like they worry about us.
 
This simply isn’t the year for in-person celebrations. Thanksgiving is a gathering I will really miss. We spend holidays with Molly’s goddess-mother and her circle of friends. Each year the people grow more dear and we watch the young ones fledge, grow, and fly away, some to return. This is Molly’s birthday week as well, so I have to temper my missing seeing her in person with my full heart at having such a loving daughter, colleague and friend. Besides, a day when we don’t talk face to face online is rare, and we’ll do so tomorrow as well. We will also gather with the Brookline family tomorrow on Zoom.
 
Next year, when it’s safe to be in a room together again, we can do the regular holiday thing. This is the year, the awful year that is ending on a much higher note than it began, where we took a long hard look at ourselves and enough people decided (thank you mail-in voting!) to change the channel. That is our gift to each other. We hope the world can continue lurching toward justice. The gracefulness of that dance is not important but the work is. Bob and I can’t do much from here but we are contributing to both Georgia Democrats and to voter registration efforts there. That’s where your Christmas present went, if you’re wondering. 
 
We will be just us two here tomorrow. We bought a local free-range chicken from Glenryan Farm just up the road and I’ll roast that with lemons, limes and garlic cloves. We’ve eaten the potatoes from The Farm in Terre Noire, so we’re having roasted butternut squash and salad. We also have our bread and butter and beet and onion pickles and of course, the applesauce.
 
Trying to craft a non-dairy dessert with no milk, cream, or butter, I’ve come up with an applesauce almond cake with an almond cinnamon glaze. I think it would work well with almond flour and fine cornmeal in place of the wheat flour but I haven’t tried it. The applesauce is made from our Scotia Gold apple harvest and it’s naturally sweet, so good that we still have a bucket of apples on the screen porch and grab one when we walk through. The recipe has very little oil or sugar in it. Applesauce takes the place of fats and provides sugars and ensures a nice crumb and a moist cake that lasts as long as you can ration yourself. It also freezes well. We made two loaves and froze one to give a friend. Then we ate it. I’ll have to make some more.
Bob and I wish all our friends and families a simple, thoughtful, and thankful holiday. Love you all!

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10-18-2020 – Blessing

October 18, 2020 by DonnaHebert

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Blessings come in large and small packages. We are thankful for this week’s heavy rain, which has fully recharged the cistern. It’s a partial blessing since we also await the results of the tested water and are drinking bottled water in the meantime.

A week of dreich (Scots Gaelic for gloom) has been followed by several days of great weather, so we do our errands up and down the coast, from Chéticamp to Port Hawkesbury. I never leave my phone at home any more because there are too many pictures already framed and waiting for me to find them.

We take advantage of these mild fall days to ready the house for winter and plan out next year’s garden. But the blessings of fall are fleeting in their beauty and provide a perfect excuse to walk away from the computer. The wind in our faces also pushes the scudding clouds across a cerulean fall sky, with the Bay of St. Lawrence reflecting that blue to the horizon. Shading our eyes against the late afternoon sun with the maples on fire, we can just breathe in the beauty and let it reach all the way to the tightness inside. The landscape draws it out and by the time we arrive home, we feel better. 

Today’s slideshow covers several journeys over the past few weeks up and down the coast, from Chéticamp south to the Margarees, along the beach at Inverness, the harbour and marsh at Mabou, visiting beaches at Port Hood and Port Hastings. This western area has several names – the Musical Coast, the Ceildh Trail, the Sunset Coast. All are accurate. There is much to see and hear in this slice of Cape Breton and we’re trying to pack as much as we can into only a few more months. https://youtu.be/Tp5E97S_YcU

The song, Blessing, was written for a friend’s 40th birthday and I sing it on my 1999 Big Boned Beauty recording. Tom Hodgson plays guitar with Lise Brown on tenor sax. I also fiddled and sang harmony on Blessing with Lui Collins and Max Cohen in 2017. Lui, (who sings it way better than I do!) sings lead vocal and plays ukulele, Max is on guitar and vocal. We performed this in shows with Jane Yolen and 3 Ravens. 

Of all my songs, Blessing has a life of its own and has been recorded so many times that I’ve lost count, though Lui was one of the first, on her Stone by Stone CD.

Maybe it works. Take a moment. Relax. Enjoy the view. Breathe.

Blessed Be.

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10-11-2020 – Well, Well, Well

October 11, 2020 by DonnaHebert

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This week in Cape Breton was all about water.

Monday morning . . . The good news is that the spring is recharging our cistern, though very slowly. With rain predicted for the next four days, we have our fingers crossed. We both took showers and did a small wash yesterday and now the water from the faucet doesn’t look drinkable, so we’re using stored or bought water for consumption. We’ll stagger our showers and continue to wash dishes by hand. No clothes-washing until the cistern is higher. In the short term, we have friends and neighbors who can refill our containers if that becomes necessary. 

As a long-term solution, we can sink a much deeper well, so the bad news starts at $4,500 and can go much higher. Gulp. Our current water supply comes from a spring feeding into a cistern. There were drought conditions here throughout the summer and it’s been running low since we arrived in August.  Global warming doesn’t improve the future outlook, so sinking a well might become necessary.

Thursday morning . . . It’s been raining off and on since Tuesday. This morning we had some hard rain for a few minutes and it’s returned a few times but it’s better like this, raining gently all day so it sinks into the earth instead of running off. The cistern has been recharging enough to shower and use the faucet for drinking as we had a half inch of rain two days ago and another 9/10 inch today so far. Bob has a weather station on the hill and he checks the cistern daily so we don’t get too low. I realize this sounds as tedious as watching the cracks dry up after it rains but I assure you it’s riveting to find out whether or not you can actually take a shower! 

Friday morning . . . Wow! That wind is crazy and it’s just getting wilder. The Canadian weather service predicted flurries (their butch term for anything under a foot of snow) in the Cape Breton Highlands but here, we had “Oh, the wind and rain” all day, all night, gusting to 90 kph, and it’s still storming mightily. The photo shows what the hailstorm left behind on the deck outside my office. It wasn’t sleet. It was almost 50 degrees at the time and each spattering melted immediately. There were at least ten bursts of hail before the day was over but no rain of frogs so far. At least we didn’t get the snow that Antigonish got 2 hours south of us. They had to cancel their golf tournament. Have I mentioned that Cape Breton seems to fall in the center of a Venn diagram of weather? Yeah, just wait a minute . . .

Saturday morning . . . Bob checked the cistern level and it’s up fifteen inches so we are out of the woods for the moment. We’re still filtering water for drinking because it looks a little cloudy but hallelujah! Showers are possible and as soon as the sun shines, we’ll do a wash and hang it out.

If your home uses town or city water, you may have problems other than a cistern running low. Flint, Michigan residents are still afraid to drink the water that comes out of the tap after six years of remediation. Wherever you live, maybe you wonder what they put in the water to make it potable and maybe you also wonder why is it so fishy-tasting and you filter it anyway just in case. Here, though the water is pure, cold, and delicious, a well might be needed because this year’s drought is a taste of the future. If my residency is approved, we’ll also be here year-round, using more water and tending the large garden we hope to grow with water from that spring. 

We take it for granted on the east coast but clean, fresh water is our most precious natural resource. Access to water will determine the future of all civilization, just as it has in the past. Ghost cities in the African deserts, the American southwest, and the jungles of Central America are evidence of what happens when we outgrow our water resources. At rock bottom, we can’t grow food and society collapses. 

Our fresh waters are ever more endangered and we certainly can’t use them up in some Biblical fantasy of dominion and redemption. People who don’t believe in that particular story also need the water, dammit, so religion just exacerbates the problem rather than solving it. Remember those ghost cities? They’re a warning. 

I’m concerned about conservation and I favor public over private ownership of aquifers and lakes, rivers and streams. That means leaving forests alone so watersheds are protected. It means refusing to allow something universally required for life – water – to become the exclusive property of Nestle or some other international company, who packages it in plastic and sells it back to us at great cost to us and the planet.

Nestle’s CEO has been quoted as saying that we as individuals do not have an absolute right to water, that we must buy it, with the implication that when there is none other to be had, we can buy it from them, or die. I don’t think so. We need to protect that water for all life and for future generations on the planet. It’s far too valuable to squander for corporate profit. 

Water is the true elixir of life and of course, you can’t make decent whiskey without it!

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10-5-2020 – Big Intervale on the Northeast Margaree River

October 5, 2020 by DonnaHebert

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The longest so far, this slideshow has 52 images and the music (4:40) is the Québecois waltz via Jean Carignan and Willy Ringuette, “La Valse Joyeuse,” from my 2009 In Full Bloom CD. I play this with pianist Rachel Aucoin and button accordionist Sabin Jacques. https://youtu.be/Utdp-MbA1Ew

Margaree is almost a generic term here. “Where do you live,” people ask, and I have to think a moment. “Southwest Margaree,” I answer. But it’s not that simple. We’re on the West Side of Southwest Margaree and it took me awhile to figure out that’s what WSSW Margaree meant on the road sign. There’s an East Side of Southwest as well, on the opposite side of, you guessed it, the Margaree River. But just which Margaree River am I referring to? Technically, there are three of them!

Bob has been taking me around the Margarees, their collective name, for several years. There seemed to be a lot of them, though I knew his home was in Southwest Margaree. There are actually nine Margarees. I looked them up. Only one of them, Upper Margaree, is on “upper” part of the Southwest Margaree River, which, despite the name, is the farthest south of all the other Margarees, as the SW Margaree River flows northeast out of Lake Ainslee toward Margaree Forks, where it joins with the Northeast Margaree to become the Margaree River, flowing toward Margaree Harbour and emptying into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. All the other Margaree villages are situated along the Northeast Margaree River. Got that? It might just be easier to explain that a river runs through it every which way. Or show you a map . . .

 Today, we got into the woods a little more, grabbed sandwiches at The Dancing Goat in Northeast Margaree, and headed toward Big Intervale, source of the NE Margaree River, from the blue dot on the lower left to the red dot in the upper right of the map, following the river/s. The road turns to gravel quickly when you leave the Cabot Trail, but we’ve seen a lot worse. Nice and wide, it narrows at the end, following the river, where it ends at Big Intervale Fishing Lodge. Everyone is obliged to turn around in the lodge’s front yard to go back where they came from.

There was one way in and the same way back, yet it looked different and I noticed little things that I’d missed on the way in, like the fact that they didn’t bury the wires and the trees are pretty thick so anyone who lives there in any season must be equipped with a generator. I also got to thinking about how much simpler the homes were than the glassy showplaces on the ocean bluffs. It’s a whole other island up in the woods. Don’t forget your rod, your reel, and your bug suit. You can fish with a license along the river as long as you can find a safe place to park and you can keep the trout you catch, but the salmon are catch and release.  

We stopped at every bridge to examine the waters that go into making a river, noticing many fingerling trout in the shallows (salmon hide in the deeper pools), and we looked around many country corners. The light was quixotic, with cloud cover moving away quickly and the sun blazing through, only to hide a moment later. There was something new around every bend in the road.

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10-2-2020 – Broad Cove Marsh Road

October 2, 2020 by DonnaHebert

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We live inland from the coast about five miles as the crow flies. It’s a bit longer in a car and there are multiple ways to get there. Yesterday, we took the back way south around Broad Cove and came out by St. Margaret’s of Scotland, where the big concert has been held for years every July but the past one. 

There are often clouds in the sky and facing west into the sun from St. Margaret’s, we saw a sun-bow to the left of the sun. One of the last photos shows them together in the sky. I’m not that skilled a photographer. These are iPhone snapshots of our life here and I’m relying on the landscape to speak for itself – and does it ever!

We live on the sunset coast, so when the light is good, we jump in the car and look for pre-framed photos waiting for us in the landscape. Bob drives and I direct – “over HERE!” I say, jumping out of the car when he stops and trying to grab multiples of what I think I see. The sun is in my eyes but shades don’t help me see the phone screen, so I take as many as I can and sort them out later. I just try to hold the camera still when I shoot. Really, till I get them home and start straightening out the horizons, it’s a mystery. 

Since roads in the neighborhood are often rough, we had avoided this one. Still gravel, it’s been re-graded and widened since last year, with new drainage as well, so we checked it out late yesterday afternoon, allowing me to further my obsession with Margaree Island, just off the coast of Dunvegan. You’ll see how close the island is from McLeod’s campground, where Bob and his family first fell in love with the island.

I can’t get around rough ground easily, so we stick close to the road. I’m avoiding shooting homes that look occupied for obvious reasons but abandoned buildings are fair game and there are plenty of those waiting for another photo essay. We also noted how close to the cliff edge some of the fancy new houses are. Money doesn’t make you smart, now, does it? They might just end up with a mermaid on their doorstep one of these days. 

The slideshow music, the Scots air The Mermaid, is from my recording with Jane Yolen, Lui Collins and Max Cohen, The Infinite Dark. (CD download link)

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9-27-2020 – Along the Margaree River

September 26, 2020 by DonnaHebert

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The post-hurricane skies yielded a sparkling day along the Margaree River. The slideshow features Orange on Blue / Long Distance, from my CD with Max Cohen, Orange on Blue. Max and I wrote the first tune together and he wrote the second and plays guitar on both.

The skies have been washed clear of the rain and the salty hurricane that drove it here. On the west coast of Cape Breton, the ever-present wind only becomes noticeable by its absence. That busy wind clears things pretty fast, be they fog or cloud, the latter racing across the sky to an imaginary finish line.

The latest storm introduced itself with a lot of wind and only spatters of rain. That wind blew at more than 60 kph, around 40 mph. It sounds worse in kph but as a constant, it’s a roar. Prior to the storm, Bob checked the yard for possible flying debris and the next day it rained buckets. Then, suddenly, the wind stopped moving. It was a moment of calm, literally the center of the storm. I sat down with a notebook to describe the phenomenon.

Eye

© 9/23/20 Donna Hébert, all rights reserved.

Still, damp, warm

I sit in the eye of the storm

Windless now

but at dawn

the trees danced,

bending not to break

We rest

within the vortex

still, calm at the center

while Nature

holds her breath

A whispering in the trees

says it’s not over

this one has

a lot of ground to cover

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9-24-2020 – Avalon Isle, Part 1

September 24, 2020 by DonnaHebert

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The slideshow music is my waltz-clog, Little Birds, written for Molly in 2007. I recorded it with Max Cohen playing guitar in 2009 for In Full Bloom. Dancing to this track is Québecois step-dancer Marie-Soliel Pilette.

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Our language is ripe with apple metaphors – the apple of my eye, apple-cheeked, American as apple pie, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and of course there’s the trope of the apple offered by a designing woman: “Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache,” in a Hungarian proverb. Apples have also long been associated with mysticism. Cut into an apple and you’ll find a five-pointed star, rich with symbolism. Such tempting fruit the apple is, with juice both fresh and fermented, with that tart-sweet crunch in your mouth when you bite into it. Indeed, the apple has sustained us and our domestic animals for centuries.

I live half the year in the north central part of Massachusetts that was home to John Chapman, better known as “Johnny Appleseed,” whose mythology is firmly implanted in the story of America’s westward expansion. Wagons heading into the wilderness of the Ohio River valley carried what was necessary to survive and cuttings and grafts for apple trees –  and cider presses – made that trip. Disney glorified this expansion, implying that folks made pies with all those apples and that the land was empty, just waiting for them (it was not, as they unhappily discovered). What the settlers were doing was fermenting apple juice and making safe drinkables like low alcohol cider before the advent of the germ theory told them why their water was unsafe or why it made them so sick.

Now I live on an island with so many apples that I think of it as Avalon. Let’s just say that if Martha has a vineyard in Massachusetts, Aphrodite has an orchard on Cape Breton. On the west side of Cape Breton, from Mabou to Margaree Harbour, the many colors of the apples line the road like sugar maples do in Massachusetts. As a lifelong gleaner of wild food, they beckon to me but as we’ve learned, they also look better than they taste. Even though we have two of these ‘found’ trees here, we also have four grafted apple trees. The taste difference is marked. One is yummy, one is meh.

Of course the apple doesn’t breed true. It can’t. It has one root and a fruiting graft from another variety. Unlike an oak, where you can plant an acorn and an oak tree will grow like the original, apples have to be grafted to viable rootstock. Every apple we eat today is a clone, so planting the seeds of an apple won’t give you the same fruit. Pretty trees maybe, nice colors, but the apples will taste unremarkable, meh. 

With the hurricane aimed straight at us, we picked ours a little earlier than planned this year and on Monday, we stripped the trees. Tuesday, while the wind blew, Bob chopped a batch of apples up for sauce but when we tasted the cooked mash before processing it, neither of us liked it, so we tossed it out for the fox. Sounds drastic but these came off our trees so we aren’t out any cash and whatever we put up has to taste good by itself. No amount of sugar or cinnamon will make blah apples better or worth the work of canning them and then there’s the fact that we already have more than a dozen delicious pints from previous years.  It’s a drought year, so I’m not surprised. What surprised me was this batch of apples tasted much better fresh, like tart Ida Reds. So now we have our fingers crossed for the second batch, this one of Scotia Golds. Wish us luck!

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  • 23 February 2021 – Un canadien errant revient
  • 11-25-2020 – A Doggedly Grateful Thanksgiving
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  • 10-11-2020 – Well, Well, Well
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  • 10-2-2020 – Broad Cove Marsh Road
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  • 9-12-2020 – Two Pints of Strawberries
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