Yes we are running low on trees and seafood and fresh water, or are we really? You would never know it by the way that we build, burn, eat and party. There is this looming doom of our race becoming extinct and what are we doing? Yup we are partying our faces off...the planet.

We should know better but I think we are living in the moment too seriously. There are major problem with Mother Earth and far too few people trying to save her, looking at the reality of the situation, and then make a reality show of it.

I had a customer through my studio the other day while I was working on a totem pole and she calmly asked me what kind of wood I was carving and where I got it from. After I replied to her question she asked what I did with all the chunks of wood I chopped off my 40 foot dug out Ravensong canoe, which was a very surprising oportunity for me to honestly tell her that all of our scraps het used for something useful, even if it means fire wood.

My point here is that no matter what we do in this world we still end up with the dilemma that to make the right changes and to set the right example to our children and other ignorant creatures, we would truly have to make some incredible sacrafices.  What are we willing to give up, for our future genrations??

I love to create things out of just about any material, especially the ever challenging wood from, the beach? Clear cut sites where the logging companies leave big piles of nice scrap materials. I pray over every project and ask Mother Earth for here blessings on my artwork and I thank the Creator for blessing me with all it takes to be a bit of a creater myself.

In closing I am thankful for all I have and for all Ihave done and for all I am going to do. May I do it well and do it all without greed.

Tyaaks Smoigit la kagaa

- the project you see are taken from the start of my latest totem project for the Vancouver Board of Trade. The log was washed up on the beach and is a second growth red cedar tree. A gift from Mother Earth as she brought it to where it's new life would begin.