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Dear Mt. Vernon neighbor ~ I'm excited about a creative event that I'm hosting here in our beautiful community and I want to extend the invitation to you as well, even thought it might be a bit like "preaching to the choir."  After all, you live here because you're already profoundly linked to the natural world.   Sometimes, though, writing helps us to access our awareness in a new way, so I hope you'll think about joining me for these creative dialogues.   If you have a friend who might be interested, please feel free to pass the invitation along.      Page  (up on Mt. View)
 
 
 Announcing the Spring 2010
 
 Sweetgrass Seminar Series 
 
held here at Mt. Vernon Country Club
 
Whether you're a writer, an artist, or an entrepreneur, a deeper connection
with Nature will set you on a more meaningful path.
 
 
      Sweetgrass             Indian Paintbrush landscape             Animal Dialogues             In Search of Kinship
 
What does it mean to be wild?
How has domestication affected animals, humans, and the land?
How does Nature enhance our creativity and make us better leaders?
 
During this series of four progressive get-togethers at Mt. Vernon Country Club, we will explore these questions, and more, through literature, journaling, hiking, a field trip to Lookout Mountain Nature Center, catered luncheons, an outdoor picnic, and attendance at the Denver screening of the award-winning documentarySweetgrass: the last ride of the American cowboy.
 
 
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, "Sweetgrass" follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
  
Sweetgrass sheep in meadow 
 
"Look into the eyes of a domestic sheep, and you will see the back of its head.  Look into the eyes of a bighorn...and you will see a lost map to place, a depth that we may extinguish before it touches us." Ellen Meloy, from "Brides of Place"   And what of us?  What of our lost map to place?   
 
You may sign up for the entire series, or for a single event.  Here's the agenda:  
  • DAY #1 Saturday, March 13, 9:00 - 4:30: write and share spontaneous responses to Craig Child's book The Animal Dialogues; talk about the wild roots beneath the surface of our domesticated lives; share our experiences in Nature (Page will talk about her month alone in a remote cabin in the wilds of Wyoming); discuss George Catlin's 1832 vision that humans are a part of and not separate from Nature, enjoy catered lunch, optional hike, and more!
  • DAY #2 Saturday, April 17, 9:00 - 4:30: discuss "The Reciprocity of Nature" (Dave Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous); discuss Susan Griffin's book Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (for men too!); write and share responses; attend naturalist presentation at nearby Lookout Mountain Nature Center; enjoy catered lunch; optional hike, and more!
  • EVENING #3 Friday, May 14, (time TBA): share a group dinner and attend Denver's only screening of the breathtaking documentary Sweetgrass about the last of Montana's Norwegian/American mountain sheepherders
  • DAY #4 Saturday, May 15, 9:00 - 4:00: meet back at Mt. Vernon Country Club and explore what it means to "carry the Dreamtime origins" of the place where we were born; develop a list of the plants and animals who share our landscapes; lunch at Mt. Vernon's private picnic grounds; enjoy a leisurely afternoon hike with time for journaling, sketching, and solitude; create a personal plan for deeper engagement with the natural world.
 
Single Seminar COST:  Day #1 $125; Day #2 $125; Evening #3 $50.00; Day #4 $125.00 (includes meals)
ENTIRE SERIES COST:  $375.00 if registered by March 1; $400.00 after March 1 (includes meals)
SPACE IS LIMITED!  QUESTIONS or SIGN UP  email [email protected]; phone (303) 842-7360 
 
 
 REMINDER: IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP FOR THE
 
Vee Bar Lodge 
 
No previous riding or writing experience necessary.  Ride and write at your own comfort level. 

Vee Bar Guest Ranch, Laramie, Wyoming, May 29 - June 3rd, 2010 

COMPLETE DETAILS HERE

 
 
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