Winter Semester 2018

Of Baskets and Acorns:  Adventures at Koviashuvik Welcome to Koviashuvik! Home of the Knapps On April 5 th , we said goodbye to Oliver and Hannah (our Uapishka teachers) and we left rainy Northwoods with Nora, eastward bound to Koviashuvik in Temple, Maine. After a foggy four hour drive we found Koviashuvik at the end of a windy dirt road. Excitedly, we unloaded our barrels and walked the path over a rushing brook. Chris greeted us with open arms and showed us to our dwelling. We got to meet the Knapp family we had been hearing about for months (Chris's wife Ashira, and children Bonnie Bee and Owen). The next morning, Chris gave us a grand tour of his beautiful Maine homestead. We were shown the garden, the running spring, the ice house and the root cellar, which was filled with apples from the previous year’s harvest. Later that day, Chris told us the meaning of Koviashuvik-‘a time and place of joy in the present moment.’ In the classroom (a large, hand-built house made ...

BLOG #5: Uapishka Expedition Love Letter to Uapishka “Dear Uapishka, My heart is yours. There is no way to properly describe the fluttering in my chest that climbs its way up my throat when I see your peaks against the sky. As I sat inside the hard-packed snow that encrusted your majestic slopes, I felt that I could hear a singing voice; I could hear your song. A song of strength, wisdom, and passivity I had never experienced before. Your tone in the music of life is of beauty and serenity, and holds all those who join in the song. You, Uapishka, have given me a place in which to sing and play and be a beautiful child in the world again. A place where nothing matters but the slopes and the sky, and that beautiful space in between where I can grow and thrive. I love you Uapishka, you will always be a place of reverence and serenity in the world. Love, Emily Wasem.” Headed up the waterfall When I left you last, it was on the eve of our final winter expedition. Unfo...