Thinking about our Climate Crisis

Facing our Climate Crisis Together 11.30.21 My background and beliefs I am a 79-year-old white male with two careers—health and writing/publishing. I am a Quaker driven by the principles of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Equality (SPICE). The climate crisis is our greatest threat to humanity. As an elder I’m inspired to use my resources […]

Hope in a Time of Plague

The climate crisis is the single greatest concern that all of us have to face. Because it can foretell annihilation of our human race. This agonizingly painful process is gathering pace. And the world’s poorest communities—the people of the global majority—are right at the sharp end of the spear. The forces of brute capitalistic greed […]

Metamorphoses: Plant-Patty and Miss Birch Turn into Each Other

METAMORPHOSES Plant-Patty and Miss Birch Turn into Each Other Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things. Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. 1.1-4, 8 a.d. In the fall of 2020, John Graham-Pole and I embarked on a pandemic reading program.  Reading that would keep us attuned to the global climate emergency. […]

Bees’ legs as Pollen Press

    Posted by Dorothy Lander M’s Humble Bumble bee companion in Hmmm – M the Humdinger  (www.harppublishing.ca/books/hmmm) When I was crafting M’s humming companions for the intergenerational storybook entitled Hmmm – M the Humdinger, I was keen to use goldenrod blossoms (solidago) to represent the pollen on bees’ legs.  For my next botanical bee, […]

Seated Harp Player from 4700 years ago

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254587 From 4,700 years ago comes this sophisticated, slightly abstract marble sculpture of seated man playing harp, & maybe singing. It was originally painted, & is one of the earliest-known depictions of musicians (Cyclades Islands).  In The Met Museum, New York City.

The Curious Cat Tea and Books and HARP the People’s Press: A pARTnership

The Curious Cat Tea and Books will open this summer on Main Street, Antigonish in partnership with HARP Publishing The People’s Press.  We know it is real when there is a feature story in The Casket (May 26, 2021).  www.saltwirepressreader.com HARP will have a dedicated display unit for the 13 titles released since December 2018. […]

Individual Orders for Botanical “M” Cards – $4 each

The   Cards Botanical Mi’kma’ki Individual Orders by Number 1 through 12 $4 CDN per card $19 CDN for any 6 of your choice $37 CDN for set of 12 (plus shipping) Contact harppeoplespress@gmail.com for payment options and pick-up/delivery in Antigonish area M the Humdinger 2. M’s Pansy Family 3. M’s Creation Story M’s Swing […]

Botanical Greeting Cards – Gifts for Nature Lovers

The 12 botanical collages that illustrate the storybook Hmmm – M the Humdinger are available as 5’ x 7’ greeting cards.   www.harppublishing.ca/books/hmmm Dorothy Lander crafted the botanicals collages and M’s humming companions — hummingbirds, dragonflies, bumblebees, hummingbirds — from pressings of flowers, leaves and evergreens, moss and mycelium.  All of Nature’s gifts were gathered from […]

KPH – You’re Just My TYPEwriter!

You’re Just My TYPEwriter!            –   by Kyla Heyming, KPH –  For Those I Have Loved (HARP, 2020) https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/for-those-i-have-loved/ My love affair with the typewriter began as most passions do: with a connection, a spark, and an idea. I have been calling myself a writer ever since I was 14. An idea had crept into […]

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