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He will be at the bookstore from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Being of Cherokee and Japanese ancestry and living in Lake County, Stone-Kiwamura records original instrumental compositions of Native American and Ecuadorian flutes over modern and traditional instruments.
His work also includes the renowned “Whispering Light” series of meditation music.
The unique flavor of Stone-Kiwamura's music is that he writes and arranges it all himself and plays every instrument on the recordings.
His main instruments of study are native flutes. bass guitars, keyboard and piano following a 12-year career on jazz and classical trumpet.
“The music I perform is a type of cross-cultural renaissance from inside me that uses every musical element I have learned and experienced,” he explained. “I am merely expressing what is in my soul and heart and hopefully others will join me in the journey.”
Watershed Books is located at 305 N. Main St., Lakeport.
Form more information call Watershed Books, 707-263-5787.
Visit Stone-Kiwamura's Web site at www.whisperinglight.com.
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Those of us who live in the country equate the word “development” with displacement, and it has often been said that subdivisions are named for what they replace, like Woodland Glade. Here’s a writer from my state, Nebraska, Stephen Behrendt, with a poem about what some call progress.
Developing the Land
For six nights now the cries have sounded in the pasture:
coyote voices fluting across the greening rise to the east
where the deer have almost ceased to pass
now that the developers have carved up yet another section,
filled another space with spars and studs, concrete, runoff.
Five years ago you saw two spotted fawns rise
for the first time from brome where brick mailboxes will stand;
only three years past came great horned owls
who raised two squeaking, downy owlets
that perished in the traffic, skimming too low across the road
behind some swift, more fortunate cottontail.
It was on an August afternoon that you drove in,
curling down our long gravel drive past pasture and creek,
that you saw, flickering at the edge of your sight,
three mounted Indians, motionless in the paused breeze,
who vanished when you turned your head.
We have felt the presence on this land of others,
of some who paused here, some who passed, who have left
in the thick clay shards and splinters of themselves that we dig up,
turn up with spade and tine when we garden or bury our animals;
their voices whisper on moonless nights in the back pasture hollow
where the horses snort and nicker, wary with alarm.
Ted Kooser was US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2005 by Stephen C. Behrendt from his most recent book of poetry, History, Mid-List Press, 2005. Reprinted by permission of Stephen C. Behrendt and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2010 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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Performances will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10; 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11; and at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12, at the MAC building, 350 Lange St.
The musical features music from “Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
The performers include 13 dancers from Antoinette's School of Dance in Lakeport, as well as the school's own talented student performers.
Tickets go on sale Monday, Nov. 29.
Reserved seats are available for $10 each and are available at the Clear Lake High School office, telephone 707-262-3010.