3 PM: Swimming in Joy...

This is the 3rd day here at Camp Kieve with the Great Mother Conference, the place I always refer to as the Poetry-camp in Maine. This afternoon's highlight is the opening of the Art Gallery, here is the place where the artist of this community can show and also sell their accomplishments to this most grateful audience. We all get dressed to the "T" as much as possible for someone that has travelled far and remembered to bring the right stuff. See for yourself, I implanted a slideshow of the photos I took at the opening.

Art Gallery opening...

What's on the menu tonight...

By the end of this dinner is waiting and then an evening program, more poems by "newbies" and "primed " poets, wish I had written down the people who had a chance to read to us, but as it is, it is a mystery! Galway Kinnell, continues the sounds of word until David Wheatstone on Sitar and Marcus Wise on Tablas finally get their turn. Always a highlight and much sought of here!

View from stage onto the audience at the Innisfree of Camp Kieve...

After some time I decided to down to the dinning-hall and continue the photo and word process to bring here to this blog, but by doing so I have to battle of our special and uninvited guests... the Mosquitos!!! I think they are extra pesterous this year, bigger and hungrier every year.

Me fighting off the relentless Mosquito-Attacks...

I tried to ignore them, sometimes it is possible sometimes not so!!!

boB Henning too has to deal with them bloodsuckers...

The Mosquito... nobodies friend... even here at this place!!!

Another short night and back to the sing-circle at 6:30, guided by Dough von Koss, a not to be missed, even though I sometimes not even know what I'm singing. This is followed by breakfast and more sitting down at the Hut of Lectures. Listening to more "New Voices", Neil Douglas-Klotz, and a short break to fill your tank with more food and drinks. John Rosenwald talks about Rilke and the translations by Robert Bly and by him, then our Star Astrologer Caroline Casey connects us back with the universe and then Gioia and Martin put us right back into the land of Finn.
After lunch I'm back at "work" on blogging... getting further and further away from the "real" time!!!

By 3 o'clock it is time to "cool" off my mind and body...