Table Talk with Dee Lysak
This podcast, Table Talk with Dee Lysak, invites you to the eastern shores of Lake of the Woods with miles and miles of shoreline, ancient rock, and 14,522 islands. This is the Laurentian Plateau. Imagine yourself here, sitting with friends and family, around a kitchen table: listening. The stories are mine, to write and to tell. And, the tales - mostly fact, some fiction are centred around all that it means to be Canadian in an ever-changing world. The past will help us know where we came from and the present will ground us in our shared reality. I trust the words, all knitted together, will illustrate the world we live in. And, if we choose to act - individually or collectively: we can imagine and build an even better one. Life moves so quickly. Thank you for spending some unhurried minutes, with me - Dee Lysak.
Table Talk with Dee Lysak
CUPID the Deer
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This is a story of how one whitetail deer caught the attention of the human race and in so doing, catapulted one deer, just one deer from Anywhere, Ontario, Canada into the hearts and minds of many. CUPID the deer created an ecosphere; of faith, hope and love. In the telling of this tale, I have taken liberties to imagine how CUPID came to be. I have also carved out space for the ecology of a whitetail deer and its natural environs. Whitetail deer are not native to this region. They arrived in the late 1800s – pushed further North from their natural habitats.
The story weaves in and out of fact and fiction. Let your imagination soar as we invite mythology and the folklore of elves, fairy folk, and others to the table. There are truths and hardships surrounding the animal kingdom embedded throughout the telling of this tale: Loss of habitat, urbanization, poaching, and capture myopathy.
This story, a memoir of CUPID the deer would never have been told, were it not for the inspiration of a photographer who lives, works and plays in CUPIDs hometown. CUPIDs story is based on real life events. But that is another story. Follow me, let’s journey together to the forest edgelands, to the Whiskey Jack Forest. CUPIDs woodland friends are walking for miles and they are on a mission - calling upon those seldom heard and not always seen.