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Birch Trees growing amidst limestone rocks at Wekusko Lake, MB Photo: Linda C. Butler *** Native Food and Medicinal Plants of the Boreal Forest Our knowledge and use of wild plants to sustain and heal us has greatly diminished.** Today with concern about the world’s diminishing variety of wild plants, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Agriculture and Consumer Protection “for a world without hunger”, has made this out-of-print reference book available on line: Traditional Plant Foods Of Canadian Indigenous People,Nutrition, Botany and Use By: Harriet V. Kuhnleinand Nancy J. Turner, At http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/other/ai215e/AI215E00.HTM Published online March 09 and originally published by Gordon And Breach Publishers, Canada, 1991, 2^nd printing 1996. Look, all your life, if you are imaginative and creative, you will be copied. Copying is what most people, and most companies do. But the company that wants to stay at the top of its market and command those premium prices just can't copy the copycats by improving its old product, no matter how creative they might once have been. - Tom Peters in Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau. Stop the Destruction of the Boreal Forests Our boreal forests are being harvested by machinery for pulpwood to make toilet tissue and other paper products. Do you really need to use the softest toilet tissue made from hundred-year old trees? Instead, choose to use toilet tissue made from recycled papers.Read the article in the Vancouver Sun newspaper and visit the Greenpeace website for recommended products.	Creativity, and the Wilderness Connection The expression *moose pasture* is a Northern Canadian expression, meaning there is nothing there, as it is *only moose pasture. This site is about creativity and how wilderness is important in creating an environment where creativity has an opportunity to flow. The vastness, the muskeg and the rolling rock of the Precambrian shield country, is like the pause between action, the time when it seems that we do nothing, yet we arise to find solutions. Creativity can be enhanced by spending time in wilderness places, or in moose pastures where our minds can be still. These places can help to empty our minds of everyday thoughts, and allow us to get into the creative flow. Negative space, where there is nothing, is as important in our lives as it is on the artists canvas, because it allows the masterpiece, which is ourselves, to reach its fullest potential. This site is about creativity - how to develop it, and how to think in new ways. Creativity may come from our relationship to nature, and if we look for ideas in moose pastures, the out-of-the way places where our minds can be still, ideas may flow to us. We may also find that areas that seem barren, are actually rich landscapes. The dull is now colorful. Lichens on the Rocky Shoreline of Wekusko Lake Photo: Linda C. Butler* If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. - Heraclitus, Philosopher *Men of the High North* Can you remember your huskies all going, Barking with joy and their brushes in air; You in your parka, glad-eyed and glowing, Monarch, your subjects the wolf and the bear? Monarch, your kingdom unravisht and gleaming; Mountains your throne and a river your car; Crash of a bull moose to rouse you from dreaming; Forest your couch, and your candle a star. - Robert Service in Men of the High North ***** Please Visit These Sites: Romance Writers (romancewriters.ca) Writers Place (writersplace.info)

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Birch Trees growing amidst limestone rocks at Wekusko Lake, MB Photo: Linda C. Butler
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Native Food and Medicinal Plants of the Boreal Forest

Our knowledge and use of wild plants to sustain and heal us has greatly diminished. Today with concern about the world’s diminishing variety of wild plants, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Agriculture and Consumer Protection “for a world without hunger”, has made this out-of-print reference book available on line: Traditional Plant Foods Of Canadian Indigenous People,Nutrition, Botany and Use By: Harriet V. Kuhnleinand Nancy J. Turner, At http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/other/ai215e/AI215E00.HTM Published online March 09 and originally published by Gordon And Breach Publishers, Canada, 1991, 2^nd printing 1996.

Look, all your life, if you are imaginative and creative, you will be copied. Copying is what most people, and most companies do. But the company that wants to stay at the top of its market and command those premium prices just can't copy the copycats by improving its old product, no matter how creative they might once have been. - Tom Peters in Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau.

Stop the Destruction of the Boreal Forests
Our boreal forests are being harvested by machinery for pulpwood to make toilet tissue and other paper products. Do you really need to use the softest toilet tissue made from hundred-year old trees? Instead, choose to use toilet tissue made from recycled papers.Read the article in the Vancouver Sun newspaper and visit the Greenpeace website for recommended products.

Creativity, and the Wilderness Connection

The expression moose pasture is a Northern Canadian expression, meaning there is nothing there, as it is only moose pasture. This site is about creativity and how wilderness is important in creating an environment where creativity has an opportunity to flow.

The vastness, the muskeg and the rolling rock of the Precambrian shield country, is like the pause between action, the time when it seems that we do nothing, yet we arise to find solutions.

Creativity can be enhanced by spending time in wilderness places, or in moose pastures where our minds can be still. These places can help to empty our minds of everyday thoughts, and allow us to get into the creative flow. Negative space, where there is nothing, is as important in our lives as it is on the artists canvas, because it allows the masterpiece, which is ourselves, to reach its fullest potential.

This site is about creativity - how to develop it, and how to think in new ways. Creativity may come from our relationship to nature, and if we look for ideas in moose pastures, the out-of-the way places where our minds can be still, ideas may flow to us. We may also find that areas that seem barren, are actually rich landscapes. The dull is now colorful.

lichens on rock by lake
Lichens on the Rocky Shoreline of Wekusko Lake
Photo: Linda C. Butler

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. - Heraclitus, Philosopher

Men of the High North
Can you remember your huskies all going,
Barking with joy and their brushes in air;
You in your parka, glad-eyed and glowing,
Monarch, your subjects the wolf and the bear?
Monarch, your kingdom unravisht and gleaming;
Mountains your throne and a river your car;
Crash of a bull moose to rouse you from dreaming;
Forest your couch, and your candle a star.
- Robert Service in Men of the High North
*****

Please Visit These Sites:

Romance Writers (romancewriters.ca)

Writers Place (writersplace.info)

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