About me

This all seems so strange to me, not just talking about myself, but sitting in front of a gadget that can reach millions of people.

At the age of 46 it seems like my whole journey down here has been like a week. I am just getting in tune with who I am. It’s a shame that youth is wasted on the young. Now as my mortality hits me and the physical ageing happens, my mind seems to be in better state than ever,(yea, right.lol!)

I grew up in a small town, Lockeport, Nova Scotia, mostly an island with one road going in.I am a descendant  from the original Lockes who founded the town,I was the last Locke in Lockeport and should have kept my name when I married but I didn’t.I wish I would have kept the name  and given it to at least one of my children, so the Locke name could carry on, since there aren’t any more last name Lockes left.

We are surrounded by the beaches and shores and islands,so needless to say, that is where I spent all my time playing. We Had 500 people in town and I couldn’t wait to hit 18 and leave, So I did just that.

I went to college and became a pre-school teacher. I came back to Lockeport. I couldn’t stand to be away from the shores.I then started hiking and camping on all the islands I could get to. If I couldn’t get there because of the tides,I would get one of the fishermen to take me out and drop me off and later pick me up. (sometimes they would forget me.) When the tides change every 6 hours, I could walk to some.

It seems to me that a women has times in her life when the maturity hits and when it hit me I got very creative and high spirited. .That blast of energy lasted for 3 years in which I spent all my free time creating my artwork and beachcombing with my 2 young boys.It was an awesome time in my life. Ever since then my high energy comes and goes but always in the spring and fall it returns.I have been lost a few times,and stuck on islands a few times,but I love it. The curiosity of what’s around the corner is so great that I can’t help myself.

I have 2 sons who are in university and a daughter who is 17 . Now in my life as freedom seems to be around the corner it excites me.

My husband and I hope to buy a van put a mattress in the back, grab our guitars and hit the road. Work, sing – whatever we need and want to do. We have beautiful property on the shore .Keep the taxes paid and we will always have it, unless they raise the taxes so high to drive the locals out and bring the foreigners in to buy it all up.That is exactly what is happening in Nova Scotia. How many of our children will have land here where their families have been here for generations. Anyway life is good and I have nature all around me 24 hours a day. It makes me feel like I am a child again,which is what we all should feel like.

Our town along with all of Nova Scotia is now becoming filled with tourists,I seem to find them everywhere I go,so now I go farther in the outback where there are only the animals and myself.Still sometimes you can hear Boats,planes and chainsaws pushing and carving our way further down the road to endless and needless places that rob us of our senses and throws us into a space where we become who they say we are and forget our way back. If we are to return we must remember what we were all born with but now have forgotten as our adulthood slowly steals it away. How do we get it back? Memories take me there but I only get glimpses,oh to be truly awake.

How stupid we have become, protecting our borders, protecting ourselves at any cost, all false securities. Whether we want to believe it or not we are all the same, the best that is in you is the best that is in me also, the worst that is in you is the worst that is in me. We only fool ourselves into believing in these false securities like money to entertain our minds so we won’t have to look within. We all know, we ignore it and return to our daily activities that bore us into believing that this is reality, until one fateful day that comes for us all,” when” is hidden from us, but we will be expected to be ready when it comes.