a page in a day

by kathleen Carter Steeves
(Nova Scotia Waverly)

Its been a real adventure to publish what i know and share with te world the beauty of the old Celtic world of Olaves and Kings from the 4th century to the Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia of today.I frist heard the prayer of Talisian and Amerigian five years ago in an Irish Studies Poetry Class and i knew from deep in my soul that day i was part of this mystery called celtic, part of the land and the old ways of tribal living.

Here in Nova Scotia so I got into a 1977 Westfailia popup Camper and with camera in hand early April I headed for the shores of the Minus Basin and Alma New Brunswick (my home).Living in a truck with no cash for gas I started to paint Celtic garden rocks as i picked them up going along the trail and whenever I would visit friends here in the city.I paint sell them in A few places along the way making enough cash to buy gas and continue the project.Co ops were the only stores who would sell them.God bless the Co-op stores.I made it around the Bay in 8 months!!Got plenty of pics and then leased a cottage in the woods to set out the word power I frist heard some two years earlier.Like "I am the wind in the heavens, or a Yeats poem of walk softly on my dreams and i would tuck my dream into a small folder in the truck glove box.pen and paper flowed and so did music.

In one of the towns a really great little cafe showed up in the summer of 2007 We sang our hearts into my art and came up with a name, music has always been a part of my life."Bay of Fundy Country"There is a jazz player in that town 72 years old and still playing at nursing homes.So the Book is named "Bay of Fundy Country"The cafe will sell my material once it is published.

One night i had my truck parked on the trail out over the Bay and around 11pm this man came all the way out from his place about a mile or so to wan me of the incomming tides lololol He saved my life.

Now Im in another cottage looking into publishing, self publishing I beleive is the way to create a more humanistic book market.Words are important but not just for the chosen few.

I went to a book fair that was congested and high flutin.Got to listen to a great poet from Tronto used to live here in Nova Scotia.......

Pitched my idea to a few editors"We dont publish your kind of material"You need to go to .......pass the buck and bulls**t.....
Ive shown the cd material to two local celtic related professionals and they want to give it a review to read so it has received a warm start in the area.

The professor I studies under for the poetry has passed on so I will dedicate this to his memory he did so very much for the celtic community here in Nova Scotia and in Ireland.

The book has begun to take on a life of its own I just partnered with a sociology professor wjo has an intrest in Celtic things and he has taken on the editing side of things.I value his work ad know his input will only imbellish the quality of the whole presentation.

However for the most part I find writters and those in the publishing feild pompus and full of mental masturbations I want nothing to do with!!here in this area for suit.

im a poet/song writter/composer, photoist and writter i feel very privledged to have this gift of creativity that I did not put here so it is with great natural inclinations and desires that I look for the best form to bring this work of art to the world.This is self publishing........i am aware of the death of books when the academic community set about to birth a dragon!!!