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
Blueberry Hill
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This podcast might be the most personal one that I have written and recorded to date. You will hear references to my childhood and times spent picking berries with my Baba & Gido. If there is one memory, forever etched in time, it is the imagery that surrounds any blueberry hill on any summer day. And for me, this only happened with the loving and caring arms of my Baba & Gido wrapped around me, as I grew up on a farm in southeastern Manitoba.
Now here in the wilds of northwestern Ontario, blueberry patches are synonymous with finding and foraging for a food – that is not only bursting with flavour but packed with anti-oxidants, so they are good for you, too!
BLUEBERRY HILL invites you, the listener, to a part of the world that is largely untouched, still rustic and raw. The next time you are out adventure seeking be sure to save some time, to do just that in late July/ early August so that you can find your own blueberry hill. Pick enough to make a berry crisp or a berry pie – and, I think it is safe to say that friends and family will not be far away.