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
I Am A Settler
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I Am A Settler is a story that looks at the past, the present and the future.
In this story, we discover Turtle Island and how everything is interconnected! And, to illustrate the power of story we share a personal recollection of a short road trip, a few blue moons ago, and the tale of a turtle heading east.
Here in Ontario, Canada, the very early days of spring have been marked by a crushing wave of COVID-19 and in that same span of time, the idea of looking back - way, way back took root.
I Am A Settler takes us down pathways to the past, to ancient art forms and the makings of pictographs and petroglyphs. If you are from northwestern Ontario, you might already know or will soon learn - that pictographs are right here in our own backyard. And, if you are from away: A road trip might soon be in order.
There is much to see and to do in the wilds and woodlands and we cannot wait to welcome you to the Township of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls on the eastern shores of Lake of the Woods!