Biographical Timeline
The Secret Life of Sunheart--Revealed!

 

A Mythobiographical Timeline of Events
in the Life of Sunheart

Introduction

"Since a young teen, I have engaged in a lot of diary writing, but not consistently, of course. I'd always planned to write a biography in nine volumes called "Nine Lives," or something like that, because I've been out on a limb so many times and always landed on my feet. I seem to have been an observer to so many historic events, that many have suggested I "write a book," and even offered to help. The first step in any eventual biography would be for me to provide the basic timeline of events from which to work and gather pieces of information. This has been very difficult in that my old notes and planning books are spread across several boxes. I have given over much information to my "scribes" to prepare this outline as a historical reference, however it is not yet complete.

One thing you may notice here is the use of mythological nicknames. I felt that since this site deals largely with ancient wisdom, this device would show how mythology can still be relevant today in everyday life. In most cases I use mythnames for people you won't know, or people who have not yet given permission to be mentioned here who are not public figures. People I have mainly a professional connection with or for historical public figures I have provided the "scribes" with the actual names, such as JFK, Elvis, etc. If these gentlemen object, and contact me either through phone or email or through the spheres (as with Elvis, JFK, etc) I will give them whatever nickname they choose. My nickname on this website is Sunheart, so I will use it accordingly. I think of my life as one of my works of art, and like certain projects, full of difficulty and aesthetic and philosophical struggle. This timeline provides only highlights from that journey, focusing on my favorite memories more than my most painful ones. (I tried adding in the painful ones, but a timeline format doesn't do justice to all the nuances of self-torture involved. I hope you don't mind!)"
Sunheart February 2001

PART ONE
The Early Years

9/12/55 Sunheart was born at 1:00 PM at about the zenith of the sun's path in the sky. He was delivered at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD. Sunheart's brother Mars nearly drowned in the hospital swimming pool that same day. The Naval Hospital was envisioned by president FDR before the war as a haven to heal the sick and wounded from the coming war, and his vision was specifically that it should be build at Bethesda, as in the Bible. A reflecting pond was built all around the hospital and filled with lotus flowers, apparently to invoke the healing powers of the "pools of Beth Saida." It was an auspicious birth, surrounded by lotuses, and one without any complications.
9/13/55 Separated from his mother by a military doctor, and put on formula, Sunheart was not allowed to breastfeed, weakening his physical development and immune system.
9/15?/55 Sunheart taken home to Arlington, VA.
3/15/?56 Sunheart's family moved to Lanham, MD, Telegraph Rd., the route of the first electronic communication lines, erected by Samuel F.B. Morse. Sunheart, born under the sign of Mercury, has dedicated most of his life to transforming, reforming or inspiring the communications industry, usually behind the scenes, but often on camera as well.

Everyday Mythology
Sunheart and his siblings grew up listening to Joseph Campbell, the Tao Te Ching, and other esoteric texts read to them at bedtime. Like many families, Sunheart's family formed a parallel to the family trinity/complex of the ancient Celts and Brythons before them. His Celtic father was a distant God of deep space who's mind encompassed the stars and who set them in their orbits. His strong, silent father, whom we shall call Luke Caeli (after Lugh the Solar God's father Caeli, in the Celtic iconography) kept his great mind on matters of cosmic global importance, and left the child-rearing to his wife Caeradwin. Sunheart's mother, Carrie Caeradwin, is a Native American of Micmac and Wampanoag descent, with some Scottish mixed in. Like Caeradwin of the Celtic iconography, she had a large black cauldron and was the healer, cook, and comforter and keeper of the hearth. She would make up stories as the children were going to bed about talking animals, and magical spirit beings.

In the old tales, the Morning Star was one always in competition with his brother the sun, and was even a trickster at times. Sunheart's older brother was named "Mars," and was often at war with the rest of the family. Sunheart's sister Brigit Venus, also doubled sometimes as Athena, Goddess of the Tribe, and even as a child was a warrior woman. She later lived with the Lakota people for a time. Some called her "Stands with a Fist." But she could also shapeshift into a vision of loveliness when she chose to. She was a great singer, even as a child, and gifted in poetry. She and Sunheart still perform at Native American gatherings from time to time. In the old stories, the sun was a messenger Hugh Gadairn, or Lugh, who traveled to the realm of Gugant and then returned to earth at sunset bearing new teachings. Sunheart has brought many new discoveries and ideas into the world in dozens of fields, and has been called, among other things, "The spiritual grandfather of the new age." (Publisher's Weekly)

10/57 Sunheart traveled to Red Stone Arsenal in Alabama, with his father and family. He stayed in the motel while his dad, Luke Caeli, went out to talk to Dr.Werner Von Braun about the possibility of launching a rocket to place a surveillance satelite in orbit around the earth, the U.S. response to the Sputnick "threat." Von Braun says to Sunheart's father, "Give me enough money and I will put your satelite in space." It is the unofficial (and inauspicious) beginning of the U.S. space program.
9/58 At the age of three, Sunheart remembers moving in to the house at 2016 Peabody St. West Hyattsville MD 20782, where he was to live for twenty years. The number was 422-4281, which numerically has to do with the four directions of the medicine wheel, and the seven and eleven directions as it is expanded according to tradition. A large reel-to-reel tape recorder was the first thing to enter the house. Making musical recordings has always been a part of Sunheart's life. Later, a tape was made of Luke reading The Little Brown Cow to Sunheart on that machine, Sunheart's debut recording. Sunheart pointed to the page and started chanting COW COW COW COW. (A past life connection with Hathor perhaps?)
9/59 At the age of four, Sunheart writes his first short story, THE KING'S HAT (2 pp). This is later followed by SOPT, THE DOG (5 pp) Needless to say there were some interesting and innovative spellings. (Sunheart later develops SAPS, Standard Algonquin Phonetic Spelling, but that's different.) Sunheart begins attending Paint Branch Unitarian Sunday School (held then at the University of MD) and learns about the Old Testament. Sunheart is given an IQ test at this time, and scores above 120 (his father had the highest IQ in the U.S. Navy, well past 120! So no special status here!)
12/59 Sunheart's mother makes up Star and Angel stories, and Pipsissewa stories (about a Micmac mouse) to Sunheart and sister Venus at bedtime. Making up spontaneous stories is part of an ancient Micmac tradition. His mother sews a whale quilt for Sunheart's bed, with a picture of a blue whale, an ancient Micmac symbol of wisdom and mystery, and a cultural symbol of the Wampanaog whalers from which she had directly descended.
5/31/60 Sunheart convinces his father to stop smoking cigarettes. It was while she was pregnant with Sunheart that his mother found she could no longer smoke cigarettes, and always wondered why. According to some Micmac teachers, it is a misuse not only of tobacco but of fire, to smoke as a non-ceremonial habit.
9/60 At the age of five, Sunheart goes to Kindergarten. The teacher is Ms. Henshell (an old Virginia name) and he writes several stories. Sunheart and his Sunday School group follow the Kennedy/Nixon debates and elections. Sunheart and Venus picket their mother for unfair punishment, a technique they learned from Sunday School. Non-violent demonstrations are a tradition that is also of Algonquin origin.
10/60 Sunheart climbs a small mountain and decides he'll be a mountain climber and an artist when he grows up. To date, Sunheart has climbed several times in the Rockies and the Appalachians, and has hiked in the Himalayas, the Cascades, the Alps, and the Appines alone. Samples of his art work are on display at this website under art gallery. A short story from his Himalayan climbing days will be posted soon.
11/60 Kennedy elected. Father becomes more busy at the office, never revealing what he was doing, due to the increasingly classified nature of his work. (The space Gods of the old mythologies always work in secret).
9/61 At the age of six, Sunheart begins 1st grade with Ms. Johnson at Ager Road Elementary School. He falls in love with Betsy Hamash, the only Jewish girl in the class, obviously descended from the ancient Hamash clan. His brother Mars later found out and he and his gang harrassed Sunheart for a whole year.
9/62 At the age of seven, Sunheart begins 2nd grade with Ms. Cliatt. He writes several poems. It is about this time he rides his bike to Frederick, MD, a distance of fifty miles, and is picked up by the police, his first adventure in long distance travel, which, like Hugh Gadairn, will some day be his hallmark.
9/24/62 Sunheart begins writing his first novel "Stirp the Horse." ("Stirrup" The Horse) He also illustrates the book himself, completing the manuscript at 80 pages. It is a tribute to Black Beauty author Anna Sewell.

When asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, Sunheart says, "I want to be a Renaissance Man." An assistant teacher tells him that it would be a terrible thing, that he would be in poverty. She says "this was an age of specialization, and he can't fight it. He answers that money isn't important to him. He knows what he wants to do.

9/62 Sunheart's father takes him out into the back yard at night and shows him the satelite passing across the starry night sky. Though he didn't mention it, it was the same satelite he had proposed to Dr. Von Braun a few years earlier, and helped place into its orbit through the starry regions of space.
10/23/62 (Tuesday) U2 flies over Cuba. Transmits photos of Russian missiles to surveillance satelite which Sunheart's father had asked Von Braun to put in orbit.
10/24/62 (Wednesday) Sunheart's father, as the laison between the two halves of NSA, (National Security Agency) opint and humint (optic intelligence and human intelligence) sees the U2 photos as they arrive at the secret lab in downtown Washington DC. at the old Stewart Garage on New York Avenue, on the highest floor of that inner sanctum. He is virtually the first to identify the presence of nuclear missles in Cuba. (One rep from each branch of intelligence are shown them immediately. Most agree what they are. They are hard to see.) He memorizes the coordinates of the missiles and drives to Fort Meade to report the news to NSA director Vaughn, a veteran of Pearl Harbor. Luke Caeli helps NSA prepare a dossier for JFK. When Jack sees the dossier and is told "the expert's" opinion, JFK says "Well I'll be damned!"

Sunheart's father spends the next week with RFK, NSA head and other Kennedy officials trying to find a way to avoid a nuclear war. History records him only as "the expert," because of his above top secret clearance, but the Cuban Missile Crisis is addressed quickly and carefully based in part on his reputation for never being wrong. As it turns out, he was right. (See the movie "Thirteen Days." The image of Kevin Costner in the movie poster looks like Sunheart's father's ID badge from that year).
10/26/62 Russian tanker crosses into U.S. waters. Sunheart's father is driving back and forth from Ft. Meade to various places in Washington. NSA is the department most responsible for identifying threats from foreign powers, and Sunheart's dad is the sole laison for NSA, which was small in those days. Luke's car breaks down, and so he has to get a ride to work from his neighbor who works at the Dept. of Commerce. He must ask him to drop him off at Toys R Us so as to not reveal the location of the intelligence lab. Fortunately, the neighbor doesn't ask any questions. He has to go into 'shop" at Toys R Us and then walk several blocks to the lab, hoping he won't be followed by Russian agents working within the US (who are also shopping at Toys R Us). At one point, Dean Rusk inadvisably drives up to the abandoned garage in a limo. At another point, a van screeches to a stop in front of the secret headquarters and a swat team of marines jump out waving machine guns and run up the stairwell of the "abandoned" garage, another case of "military intelligence" at work. They are there to excort certain photos to the White House "in secrecy."
10/27/62 JFK and Kruschev exchange terse letters. Kruschev discusses Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
10/28/62 (?) JFK announces nuclear threat. Sunheart's mother reads him the front page every morning, without explaining why dad isn't coming home every night. His father senses that we are very close to entering nuclear war at that time, and history has never found otherwise. There were other armed missiles in Cuba as well, which no one knew for sure, but RFK senses it and urges the Joint Chiefs not to go into Cuba. Sunheart's family basement is turned into a makeshift bomb shelter several days before everyone else! Sunheart's father, an expert on the after-effect of nuclear missiles, prepares himself to meet the Creator and to resolve matters with his family members, however, cannot say a word about the actual events.
9/63 At the age of eight, Sunheart begins 3rd grade with Mrs. Funk, who became a friend of the family. She reads The Boxcar Children, The Borrowers, and Freddy The Pig stories to the class, a major influence on Sunheart's ear for literature and the sound and rhythm of words. She may have also read A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle. She was the first to recognize Sunheart's talent as a writer and encouraged him to think in terms of being a professional writer.

Sunheart's family is relatively poor, living in a two bedroom brick box in a poor neighborhood. Both parents grew up during the depression, and never talk about money around the house. It is never considered a necessity.

11/22/63 While sitting in Mrs. Funk's class, the announcement comes over the PA that "the President has been shot." Sunheart thinks it must be the president of the school who was shot. He later learns it was Kennedy.
11/25/63 (?) Sunheart attends the Kennedy funeral procession with his father, who saluted the casket as it rolled by. Sunheart remembers the saddle on the horse was on backwards, and how massive the black caisson wheels were, things important to seven year olds.
3/64 Sunheart hears his first Beatle song, I Want To Hold Your Hand.
9/64 At the age of nine, Sunheart began 4th Grade with Mrs. Finnegan. He first takes an interest in baseball and watches his first world series game on TV.
4/65 Sunheart tries out for the Boy's Club baseball team, eventually deciding he wants to be a major league pitcher.
5/65 Sunheart attended his first major league baseball game with his father and sister. It was at DC stadium, later called RFK stadium, after his father's friend. His sister met RFK once during the sixties. The Senators were already Sunheart's favorite team.
It was about this time that Sunheart was taken to his first Broadway musical, West Side Story, produced by the outstanding drama department at Northwestern High School. It had an impact that would reverberate the rest of his life, and may have influenced him to move to New York. He eventually was to become an actor and singer and perform ":on Broadway." (but south of 42nd Street, which is called "off Broadway.")
7/65 It is about this time that Sunheart becomes involved with an excavation of Piscataway campsites for the Smithsonian. One body is dug up and the head is kept in their basement a long time until the Smithsonian has room. Sunheart decides he will not go into archaeology, or disturb Native American gravesites again!
9/65 At the age of ten, Sunheart begins 5th Grade with Ms.Wroble. It is not a good year, but he begins guitar lessons. He wrote his first instrumental composition The Senators (a now-extinct form of baseball team) D7 sus, D7 Em7 G Em7. He collects memorabalia from the great Twins-Dodger's world series.

Again an assistant teacher discourages him from experimenting in mathematics. She said he wasn't supposed to do (long division?) until the following year, so cut it out! Sunheart loses interest in math for many years, but still scores okay on SATs.
9/66 At the age of eleven, Sunheart begins 6th Grade with Ms. Simmons, who is also a Senator's fan. She gives writing assignments every week, and the students read to each other. Sunheart develops a series entitled David the Talking Bird, which becomes wildly popular. The stories became longer and more elaborate. Sunheart becomes a literary celebrity at the age of twelve and is elected class president in a landslide victory.
10/66 Local team, the Orioles, beat the Dodgers in World Series.
7/66 Venus, Sunheart and their parents travel around the United States in a Dodge pop-up Camper. They went to Hollywood, Las Vegas, Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons, Grand Canyon, and other sites, and visit one or two Native American reservations. Venus' beadwork falls in the mud in Ojibway territory.
9/67 At the age of twelve, Sunheart enters Rollingcrest Jr. High School, 7th Grade. He has a dream/vision in which a voice/higher being said, "You are the seed man," and says he i to spread the seeds for a new civilization on earth. They say i currently the planetary guardian spirit for a far away planet and even name the planet, which he writes down. That paper has since been lost. They also give him teachings on what they call "The Laws of Spiritual Relativity," and describe his soul as a many-layered onion with spectrum-like colors (like the sun.)

It is not long after this that a girl Cindy Bickford, brings in a psychic card experiment kit. Sunheart is consistently able to tell Cindy Bickford the pattern ( O + triangle etc) on the back of every single card without seeing them. They do this for a quarter hour without a single mistake, then they agree there was no point to continuing, the results are clear.
10/67 Sunheart's father brings home not only the bacon, but St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP and play it over and over. Sunheart becomes interested, and startsto write songs. It was not until after this that he hears John Lennon's song "I Am The Eggman," which he linked to the "Seed Man" dream.
10/67 World Series between Red Sox and Cardinals.
9/68 At the age of thirteen, Sunheart begins 8th Grade at Rollingcrest Jr. High. He meets "Renaissance Man" Jack McKenzie, a math teacher, and they become friends. Jack, a Lewis Carroll enthusiast, is to have a major influence on Sunheart's life. Sunheart begins to experiment with watercolors.
10/68 World Series between Tigers and Cardinals, and one of the most memorable. Sunheart followed every game.
11/68 Sunheart writes or channels two prophetic songs, "Train," and "The Message." He begins to sing at coffeehouses and gatherings. "Train" appears on his CD "Long Lost Feeling" and can be downloaded at this website. "The Message" will appear on the forthcoming CD "Fire In Our Hearts." He is called by some "The Singing Prophet," at this time.
12/68 Sunheart receives a blue turntable for Christmas and a Simon and Garfunkle recording. Sunheart begins learning all the songs, including "Anjie," and begins writing songs prolifically in a style similar to S & G. (It is not clear if Hugh Gadairn wrote songs, but Apollo certainly did!) He and his neighbor Peter (now missing) begin to play music together. They later form a singing group which performs in Alabama. They win a song writing contest. Their prize is a recording contract with Contention Records in Nashville, but Sunheart's mother prohibits him from going. "Nashville is where they do all that sinnin' and swearin'" she says. As an underaged youth, he can not protest, because he is too young to drive.

Sunheart takes lessons at this time from Jeff Jones at Dale Music in Silver Spring. Jones later went to LA to work on movies and albums.

Sunheart's pen and ink drawing is selected for the cover for the Rollingcrest Year Book, even though the ninth grade class included several outstanding artists such as Elaine Goodman, who later went to New York to pursue careers in the arts.
6/69 It is on the last day of school that he first sees seventh grade star pupil E.M. Crow in the parking lot. They become friends, and are still friends over thirty years later. They write poems to each other for two years.
7/69 Sunheart goesv to New York with his family. He feels very lucky and wears a red and white striped shirt which he calls his "lucky shirt." He is given a Sunday edition of the New York Tribune on Saturday by a pressman. He'd always had an interest in having his own newspaper. (He later founded and published Resonance Magazine, one of the first desk-top published national magazines). He sees a billboard in the subway for Gillete foamy shaving cream. Three young Met pitchers, almost teenagers, using shaving cream, saying "This year, we're getting closer!" It was Koosman, (27) Seaver (24), McGraw, (24) or maybe Nolan Ryan (22), all very young. At that point they were still near last place. Sunheart, a champion of underdogs everywhere, becomes a Met fan, as well as a Senators' fan.
8/69 The Summer of Love. Woodstock happens. Sunheart's brother Mars, recently back from Vietnam where he was a great warrior, invites him to go on the adventure, (Woodstock was 333 miles away) but Sunheart has no money. Sunheart later receives a Roland Electric Piano from BS&T pianist Fred Lipsius, which supposedly had been on stage at Woodstock. Sunheart later worked as a volunteer at Woodstock 94,started his own "Sunheart's Little Woodstock" at Beacon in 1995, which became a regular annual event for three years, until he moved to Woodstock itself in 1997.
9/69 At the age of fourteen, Sunheart begins 9th grade at Rollingcrest Jr. High. Sunheart takes art class with Mr. Roberts who encourages him to paint.
10/69 Sunheart runs into Moon Crow after school. Moon Crow wrestles him to the floor and wins. Then she eclipses him at tennis. They become a couple after that and are nearly engaged to be married. A stormy year later they break up, with several later attempts, but have been friends ever since. Their birthdays are at opposite ends of the year, and often find their schedules in conflict. Sunheart writes twenty songs during that year, which he sends to her and sings for her.

Sunheart's poem Train (the lyrics to the song on the CD Long Lost Feeling") is published in The Excalibur poetry magazine, along with others. Sunheart is given an LP by Jacques Brel, Ne Me Quitte Pas by Ms. Thomas, his French teacher which influences his songwriting style. She had been a pupil in philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre at the Sarbonne in Paris. She gives Sunheart a copy of Being and Nothingness, which he absorbs eagerly, and they discussed French intellectual philosophy.
10/69 The New York Mets win the pennant. All eyes are on New York. They defeat the local Orioles in four straight in the World Series, the biggest upset in sports history.

12/69- 1/70: 14 years old, Sunheart goes to Maine for New Years with his older brother Mars. There he goes out on the beach during a snow storm and takes the name Seagull. There was six feet of snow that day. He uses the Welsh/French Canadian word Gwylan as his new name and signs his work Gwylan for many years. He also is known as "seagull" and later "Jonathan Seagull," as that book becomes popular. (His given legal name is a version of Jonathan.) Later, he corresponds briefly with Richard Bach, the author of Jonathan Seagull. (By some accounts it was 12/68 1/69)
2/70 It is about this time that Sunheart and Crow go to Philadelphia together to attend a seminar and meet Dr. Mael Melvin, a cosmogenisist and philosopher who edited and wrote parts of "Stalking the Wild Pendulum." Dr. Melvin was one of the founders of Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and picks Sunheart out of the crowd and starts asking him how the universe came into being. Melvin says that Sunheart reminds him of the Maharishi, and explains that he is the head of astrophysics at Temple University and needs to know whether the universe came into being via a stream or string or particle or big bang. He takes Sunheart and Moon Crow to dinner with his wife who is a concert pianist, and they begin some long conversations. Sunheart learns the early history of TM and how it became much more commercial before becoming well-known.
3/20/70 Sunheart's poems published for the first time, in Rollingcrest News. Many of these poems are currently published in his poetry collections. (see catalog)
6/70 Sunheart becomes friends with Mary Earthwoman on the last day of school, only to learn that she is scheduled to move four days later. The combination of this event with the study of Jacques Brel inspired several imporant songs and poems, including "Happiness and Snow" and "Send A Smile," which are featured on the CD "Long Lost Feeling."
9/70 Sunheart begins 10th grade at Northwestern Senior High School, a school of 3.000 students. He is fifteen.
10/70 The Senators play their last game in Washington D.C. Frank Howard hits a home run, the last hit in Washington. (He and Sunheart later became acquainted and work together in conjunction with a baseball book.) The Senators move to Texas.
12/70 Sunheart takes his first journey by air to Jacksonville, Florida, to see Mary Earthwoman. She teaches Sunheart to read fortunes using playing cards. He writes the songs which became the Cantata, Living At Once, which later became his first major orchestral work.
1/10/71 Sunheart meets classical guitar giant Andres Segovia at Constitution Hall. His advice: "practice."
2/19/71 Sunheart experiences "Snow Tree" journey and later writes the book "The Snow Tree" in one sitting, November 29th, 1973.
3/11/71 Sunheart writes "The Seagull," as included in the book "Pictures In The Stream."
4/14/71 (Year Uncertain) The Flower of Creativity oil painting created.
6/11/71 Sunheart finishes making the silver "seagull ring" which he wears. When struck it sings the "solar" note D.
7/12/71 Sunheart goes to Huntsville, Alabama to perform music with Peter Perrault. They sing Incredible String Band song "Cousin Caterpillar" to coffeehouse crowd and original songs, including two-guitar-two-voice version of Train.
9/71 Sunheart begins 11th grade at Northwestern Senior High at the age of sixteen. He and E.M. Crow (dating again) star in a school production of Alice In Wonderland. He is the White Rabbit, (obsessed with time) she the Red Chess Queen.
10/71 Sunheart studies art with reknowned art teacher Miss Silverstein. (Rumors that she taught Jim Henson turned out to be false, or at least Jim Henson denied this just before his untimely death due to virus) He creates the silver seagull ring with her help, and starts painting large watercolors. The Ducks Over The Pond is the first of a series (see gallery).
12/19/71 Sunheart gives his first professional classical guitar performance at All Souls Unitarian Church under Rev. David Eaton (a friend of Martin Luther King), subbing for his guitar teacher Carver Blanchard. He just turned sixteen. It is a great success. The first week he performs the guitar accompaniment to Missa Luba, and his page turner is soloist Howard Hensel, who later stars in New York with the Met.
12/26/71 Sunheart plays classical solos at the church on the day after Christmas, including Pavane For a Dead Princess which he just heard for the first time two weeks earlier. His desire to play the Pavane, in spite of his teacher's resistance, is the impetus that drives him to become a professional musician.
12/31/71 (Year uncertain) Sunheart meets Rob Tenny at a New Year's Eve Party, playing saxophone. Sunheart pulls out classical guitar, and they imitate the Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd combo. Tenny becomes Sunheart's first teacher. For one year, Rob Tenny (whose life was changed by a near-death experience) walks around Northwestern in Indian robes preaching Gandhi and Thoreau and breaking up fights. Sunheart spends a lot of time with Rob, and is introduced to Autobiography of a Yogi and other books.
1/6/72 Song of the Seagull written.
1/16/72 With Moon Crow, Sunheart has visions, sees the edge of a great sun, or circle of fire, and the six pointed star. Sunheart adopts the three-orbit atom symbol with the six pointed star in the middle as his symbol. It is later "borrowed" by American guru Dap Ren without permission.
2/14/72 (year uncertain) Sunheart gives Moon Crow "Gwylan and the Fish" his best drawing to date. She gives it away to someone she doesn't know.
3/11/72 Sunheart wins first prize in Language Day festival at Maryland University singing "Ou Que Tu Sois," (his French version of "Happiness and Snow.") Offered use of recording labs at U of M. Meets Fran Goldstien, who speaks French. She later moves to New York and becomes an author and editor with Dell Books.
3/16/72 Biographical article about Sunheart published in Nor'wester by Donna Fowler, with photos, read by over 3,000 students.
3/18/72 Sunheart sings "Ou Que Tu Sois" again, this time at the High Point High International Banquet, at the invitation of Fran Goldstein.
4/72 Sunheart plays electric guitar in the pit orchestra for the senior class play, Li'l Abner, with his sister Venus starring as the Aphrodite-like Daisy Mae. They perform a duet on "If I Had My Druthers." Several thousand paid attendees.
4/1/72 Sunheart writes "Gentle Dog," (included in "Pictures in the Stream.")
Sunheart had created an ambitious wedding suite titled Prothalamian for guitar and clarinet for the wedding of Bill McKenzie to Ginny Anderson (another math teacher) which was written about February 28th of 1972 and included parts of "Involved." On this date, Moon Crow plays the difficult clarinet part perfectly, which was later recorded by East Coast Offering star, Tim Eyerman. For Moon Crow and Sunheart it is almost like their own wedding as well. Sunheart's wedding with Lily Swann eleven years later was also scheduled for April Fool's Day, 1983 but was bumped to April 2nd of that same year.
4/20/72 Sunheart writes "Morning Dove" song.
4/23/72 Moon Crow embraces Christianity.
5/31/72 (May 29th, according to one diary note) Sunheart experiences an initiation dream which changes every aspect of his life. In the dream, he is sitting by water with five other souls. The sky opens up into six sections, as if they were inside a six-petalled lotus flower and a blinding sunlight pours down in increasing brightness, giving them all spiritual awakening. The six individuals go off in different directions to seek their destinies, with a plan to return to that center when the "day" of sunlight is over and the flower closes again. Sunheart finds himself swimming in a giant lake with giant swans floating by. When he awakens, he finds that he can see auras, read thoughts, and know the future. More importantly, his mind is open to the creator and can create music, poetry, and art at will. He feels that he is in many ways a different person, and refers to 5/31 as his "spiritual birthday." He writes "Song of Birth" the next day to commemorate the experience.
6/72 It was about this time that a Rosecrucian mystic named Douglas Keith appeared with the "Sunheart" classical guitar to give to Sunheart (who was then known by another name). After hearing him play Tarrega's stirring "Recuerdos de las Alhambras" he gave it to Sunheart and asked only that the cost of the wood be reimbursed. Sunheart's parents agreed to pay it. Sunheart later sold his old guitar to a friend of a friend, who immediately laid it on the ground behind a car, and then drove the car backwards over the guitar without realizing what he was doing. Obviously no one was ever to play that guitar except Sunheart. Sunheart received a concert version guitar in the 1980's and thought of selling the "Sunheart" guitar during a time of poverty in 1997. The Sunheart guitar disappears and is never seen again.
6/20/72 Sunheart finishes comic book "Secret Agent Duck." About this date, he gives a ring to Moon Crow.
7/72 Sunheart writes "New Generation Unborn." He finishes "Bus Stop," the first in a series of rhythmical narrative poems using music composition techniques, which is to become his trademark as a poet. Sunheart spends one whole summer creating Pathway Toward Autumn: An Allegory, in dry brush water color 3 feet by 2 1/2 feet. It is a prophetic portrait of his future life, each stage of life represented by a different tree. The pathway (representing the part of the journey he was then on) passes by the "adolescent" tree to the right, the full grown tree in the middle represents maturity and this present time (note the little sprouting tree at its foot, representing his one child, Little Eagle) and the old tree to the left, still strong, representing old age, is the final stage of life, accompanied by a shorter graceful tree in a gown of vines. (We don't know who this is yet). The shadow of the central tree (reputation) falls at the foot of the old tree but does not block the sun. The trees are in a field by themselves, but other trees circle them not too far away.
8/30/72 Bossa Nova-style song "Involved" completed, Sunheart sings it for the first time to Moon Crow. It is about her. This is one of the songs Charlie Byrd offered to buy.
9/1/72 Sunheart dreams of "cousins dying at Lake Grandma." This may refer to Micmac people and their traditions. It was also about this time that his cousin M. was killed in Maine.
9/72 Sunheart begins 12th grade at Northwester Senior High at the age of sixteen. He writes many songs, and develops his classical guitar performance technique in many performances.
9/72 Sunheart begins taking double period art with Heidi Herbst and Willis Skeet. His art work hangs in the display case outside the art room for most of the year. Herbst predicts he will be a famous artist and asks that he donate his first tempra landscape to the school. (He did, The White Flower Tree)
9/12/72 Sunheart's seventeenth birthday was an allegorical ritual which his friends willingly participated in, and some still talk about. Sunheart was one of six people that gathered in a wooded place before dawn to await the sunrise. As dawn came, each person went off in a different direction, and returned to the center to tell the story of what happened. Each had a very different experience, and in each case turned out to be prophetic of their future life. Among these were his mother, Moon Crow, G. Lewis, Gregory Blaska (the ballet dancer), Donna Fowler (the reporter from the Nor'wester) and Sunheart and one other young woman. Later they each ate one egg and broke a loaf of bread in the shape of a six-petalled flower. His mother ate the center hoop of bread. This also is similar to the "seventh direction" which is in the middle of the Medicine Wheel.
10/10/72 (year uncertain) Sunheart writes "The Silver Seagull Feather." (poem)
11/72 School Vice Principle William Chapel offered $100 for a Sunheart watercolor painting of brown trees in a wetland. He has it framed. Sunheart is featured in a lengthy article in The Nor'wester, the school paper. Again, his success is predicted.
11/14/72 Writes song Mornings' a Comin.
11/15/72 Writes sound poem "Logic's Blade," (included in Pictures in a Stream)
11/20-21/72 Performances of The Wizard of Oz with Sunheart as the tinman.
12/17/72 Sunheart reads "A Separate Reality" by Casteneda.
12/22/72 Sunheart sits in on Charlie Byrd concert with Billy Byrd, Gus Byrd, and a man named Mark. Sunheart and Charlie Byrd have one of thier long talks about life in the music business. Charlie gives Sunheart a pile of LPs as a gift.
1/15/73 A plant dies that was given to Sunheart by E.M. Crow. It wasn't watered enough. Sunheart prays for it, waters it, and a new sprout comes up the next day.
1/73 Sunheart gives his first drybrush watercolor The Irises, to "inscrutible" Becky Moy, one of the best artists in the school. Later, he got the painting back. Becky Moy became the founder of the renowned Greenbridge Pottery Center in Dayton, MD, and is now a famous potter, seen on Maryland TV.
1/7/73 Sunheart sees Gizelle (ballet by Adam) with Moon Crow.
1/13/73 Pathway Toward Autumn wins Honorable Mention in art contest.
2/21/73 Sunheart meets Brazilian guitarist, Javier Calderon.
2/27/73 Sunheart writes "Mother Nature" (to be featured on forthcoming CD "Fire In Our Hearts") It was originally called "Lady Nature." It was performed with The Hawk Project in 2000 with sax solos by the great Gus Mancini, and also became part of Prothalamian.
3/73 Sunheart was offered $1000 by his friend Charlie Byrd for the rights to one of his Bossa Nova songs, but Sunheart refused. As luck would have it, Sunheart never performed that song again. Sunheart and Moon Crow part ways 5/1/73.
3/13/73 Sunheart draws "The Crazed Moon," (see gallery)
3/20/73 Sunheart's mother makes him a "Gwylan Shirt," a mideval tunic for meditation.
5/1/73 E.M. Crow and Sunheart both move to New York City at the same time in 1979. Moon Crow is now a head midwife at a famous Manhattan hospital.
6/12/73 Sunheart graduates from Northwestern Sr. High with honors, Class of 72. It is the end of an era. He places silver mayan ring on his finger.
8/6/73 Sunheart writes "If You Needed Me," a song recorded for "Kabir: Dreamweaver," a dramatic musical.
11/5/73 Sunheart sees Das Lied Von Der Erde by Mahler with Moon Crow, talks to opera diva Maureen Forrester.
11/9/73 (year uncertain) Sunheart writes "Fredrico" his first full length short story.
11/29/73 Sunheart writes "The Snow Tree" in one sitting, based on earlier notes.
1/1/74(year uncertain) Sunheart in Florida for first time, with KB, (the inspiration for "Happiness and Snow," who taught him to "read" cards.)
1/15/74 Sunheart is told story of how the Mayan rings came to him, from the man who discovered them. Years later, Sunheart offers the rings back to the Mayan leaders. They explain that the rings found him, that they were meant to be with him. They say they are from space people and have healing powers, and a mind of their own.
3/7/74 Sunheart and sister perform "The Great Mandalla" twice in the services at the Paint Branch Unitarian Church. (year uncertain)
3/8/74 Tonight Show guitarist Fred Chapin offers to send a Sunheart guitar solo to Leavitt, author of Berkelee guitar method.
3/12/74 Sunheart's performance at the Iguana Coffeehouse listed for the first time in The Unicorn Times, a city-wide paper.
3/28/74 Sunheart sings "Shells" and played original classical composition for guitar, "Pretude" in front of 1500 people at the D.C. Hilton.
6/74 Sunheart is visited by his guiding voice which tells him "Go to Colorado!" Rob Tenney helps him. Sunheart spends the summer in Colorado, as retold in "The Mountain Book." He meets Bagavan Das and Christ Conchita (a disciple of Rajneesh) in Boulder, and other spiritual teachers, and attends classes at Naropa. At the end of the summer, his vision tells him to go to New York City, because they need help there. He knows almost nothing about New York City, but hitchhikes across country to get there. In New York, he meets many street people, and sees much suffering, but also experiences its multi-cultural energy, and artistic power.
3/20/75 Sunheart meets and speaks with Ram Das at a gathering in Washington, D.C. Hears Ram Das read his work.
4/75 (?) Creates "As Above So Below" painting/poem.
8/28/75 Sunheart's one man multi-media extravaganza, An Afternoon of Music and Art attended by over 300 people in Largo MD at the PGCC auditorium, over two dozen performers involved, with art work hung in the lobby, singers, string quartets, pianists, several guitarists, choir, etc. all playing his compositions, including the new cantata "Living At Once."

PART TWO
This section covering the twenty years of Sunheart's life from PGCC graduation to the dissolution of marriage with Lily Swann has not been compiled yet. It includes his musical career in New York City, his spiritual training with the Draconians, the birth of Little Eagle, and the founding of Resonance Magazine.

PART THREE
1990 to the Present

August 1990 Sunheart travels to Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick and meets "Grandfather Turtle."
May 1991 Grandfather Turtle comes to New York with several elders to heal the people.
91-92 Sunheart organizes seven major gatherings for his elder "Grandfather Turtle." He is called 'Chipmunk."
February 1st 1993 Sunheart gets "blurb" from Jacob Needleman for Secrets of Wholehearted Thinking. Book is published by Station Hill, although no contract has been signed.
February 2nd 1993 Lecture at Columbia University 11 to 2, delivers paper that later evolved into No Word For Time.
February 15th Magic Touch has book table at Washington's Birthday in Newburgh
February 16th Another class at Columbia
February 21st, 7 pm drumming at Phoenix rising
February 27th Benmar Winery Sunheart performs on classical guitar, 7 to 11
March 2nd 1993 Sunheart leaves for trip to New Brunswick
March 16th 1993 Little Eagle's sixth birthday.
April 23rd 1993 Sunheart goes to Gouveneur, NY to work on building retreat center/farm.
May 2nd 1993 Native American story telling in Cold Spring
May 7th 1993 Phone meeting with Mr. Stanford at Viking in reference to earlier version of No Word For Time. (it was about this time that Temple Within was finished, given to Robert X.) Robert decides it must be published immediately, and donates the money.
May 25th 1993, go to Crisjohns; he gives Sunheart new stem to his pipe.
June 5th 1993 Lecture at "Trails"
June 6th 1993 Unitarian Church sermon Micmac language as a window." Meet Heather McLain
June 12th 1993 Sunheart goes to Aunt Helens house.
June 18th 1993 S. picks up Temple Within from the printer
June 18th 1993 Little Eagle graduates from Rose Hill, its first and senior student.
June 20th 1993 Ben Marl winery, Sunheart entertains on classical guitar. Speaks with artist Robert Miller, who painted portraits of Nixon and the Beatles.
June 21st 1993 Manitoga in Cold Spring, Solstice Celebration
June 22nd 1993 Hilda Charlton's summer solstice event, Good Shepherd Faith Church, 152 W 66th, New York City. 6:30. Sunheart does premiere reading of From The Temple Within, accompanied by improvised music by Richard Schulman, who is known for his Light From Assisi CD.
July 2nd 1993 Sister Linsey back from Ireland.
August 14th-15th 1993 20th High School reunion, Greenbelt MD
September 1993, Sunheart begins teaching music full time at Dutchess Malll, at the request of pianist Frank Sutton, begins teaching piano for the first time as well as guitar. Sunheart continues teaching classical piano uninterruptedly for three and a half years.
January 8th, 1994 Attend Bruchac family concert in Albany. Discussion with Joseph Bruchac.
January 14th, 1994 Wholehearted Thinking arrives from printer, Station Hill officially releases book,although without a contract.
February 16th 1994 Talk with Madeleine L'Engle Evening: attends lecture on ethnobotany on native use of herbs.
February 21st 1994 S. gives major concert at Washington's Headquarters, 3:30 PM in Newburgh, dressed as Stephen Foster. Sunheart gave a forty-five minute to hour concert of all Foster songs, accompanied only by banjo. Abe Lincoln was in the audience (an impersonator, very impressive, apparently a relative of his) The mayor of Newburgh and a three star general from Stewart Air Force base congratulated Sunheart. It was an extremely difficult concert. Sunheart had to acquire performance proficiency on the banjo in two weeks, plus learn verse after verse of extremely convoluted lyrics. The melodies were not hard, however.
February 28th, 1994 Sunheart moves out of the studio at 28 West Main, and moves upstairs.
February 6th, 1994 Sunheart attends Meher Baba gathering, shows Wholehearted Thinking.
March 27th, 1994 Sunheart attends a Melissa Holland concert at the Howland Center.
March 30th, 1994 Talk with Madeleine L'Engle
March 31st, 1994 Sunheart tapes show on Wholehearted Thinking for WPDH radio, excellent job by PDH.
April 2nd, 1994 Sunheart does major book signing at Brentano's from 1 to 3 PM at the Galleria Mall.
April 3rd, 1994 Easter Sunday, Sunheart's one hour WPDH show broadcast. Sunheart travels to Washington DC.
April 19th 1994 Meeting with Rudy Dean about new TV show.
April 23rd, 1994 Major lecture at New Jersey Parapsychology organization. "Many Lives and Masters." 8:00 PM. Sunheart talks about his life and adventures in various dimensions, and his extensive training in the spiritual realm. Very well attended, many books signed.
April 24th, 1994 Sunheart gives out of body travel workshop at Foti II in Newburgh, based on his book "From the Temple Within."
May 8th, 1994 Sunheart gives poetry reading at Ananda Ashram, gives first complete performance of "The Silver Phoenix." Large photo of Guruji (Dr. Mishra) bows forward, falls from the shelf and crashes to the floor behind Sunheart as he is performing. (Guruji had read From the Temple Within just before he died the previous fall. Some of his followers saw this "bowing" as a sign of acknowledement or respect from Guruji from beyond the grave.) Reading was well received. Sunheart was asked to do Temple Within workshop at a later date.
May 13th, 1994 (Friday the 13th) Sunheart gives Native American workshop in private home for six of his students, organized by Cathy Littlefield. 7 PM
May 14th, 1994 Sunheart meets with Jeff McBride. Jeff was one of first to purchase a copy of From The Temple Within, which is often brought up in conversation.
May 16th, 1994 Sunheart attends lecture by famed Greek sage Daskalos at Town Hall in New York City. Sunheart presents copy of From The Temple Within to Daskalos, and a copy of Wholehearted Thinking to Diane Young.
May 18th, 1994 Trip to Boston with former Resonance Magazine editor Lioncita Parrish.
May 20th, 1994 Helen Perley has heart attack.
May 21st, 1994 Sunheart prayed in sweat lodge with Grandfather Turtle that the Creator see that he never physically harmed any innocent person, at whatever cost. A few minutes later, a freak accident happens and Sunheart's arm is burned from boiling water bouncing off the rocks. The skin of his left arm peels off. He continues the two hour sweat lodge without complaint, although in pain. Marie, who was hosting the lodge at her house in Spring Valley, helps with the injury. Sunheart's friend and herbalist Janet (who drew the illustrations for Aunt Helen's Little Herb Book) later packs the arm in sliced blades of aloe vera. After one month of that treatment, Sunheart's arm heals without any scars.
May 24th 1994 10:30 AM Sunheart does radio interview on WDST with Doug Grunther
May 26th, 1994 Sunheart meets with Michael McCartney, TV producer, 11 AM. Agrees to sponsor Author Quotes TV show with Sunheart as host and assistant producer.
May 27th, 1994 Book Reader ad released.
June 5th, 1994 Sunheart attends wedding of "Shaman" songwriters Brahm Stuart and Deborah Thomas at St. John the Divine, ministered by James Morton Dean. Sunheart later takes Brahm in as housemate when things don't work out.
June 10th, 1994 Sunheart gives intensive workshop on Secrets of Wholehearted Thinking to Wiccan Pagan Network of Orange County, at The Painted Rose. Well attended.
June 11th, 1994 Sunheart goes to Maine to see Aunt Helen and get corrections on Aunt Helen's Little Herb Book for her 90th Birthday present (June 29th, 1994.)
June 18th, 1994 Sunheart signs books and gives consultations, Holiday Inn "Psychic Fair."
June 19th, 1994 Sunheart gives classical guitar recital at Ben Marl Winery.
June 23rd, 1994 Sunheart interviewed on WDST for special "Looking for the Spirit of Woodstock," as build up to Woodstock 94 concert in Saugerties, which Sunheart was to play a major role in.
June 29th, 1994, Helen Perley's 90th Birthday. Sunheart's book about her is ready.
July 8th, 1994 Inspirational meeting with Nancy Willard at her home, several hours.
July 9th, 1994 Sunheart visits the Ballentine mansion in Bearsville, spends the day with Ian and Betty Ballentine in preparation for what was to be Ian Ballentine's last TV appearance. He dies shortly after the interview.

He treats Sunheart like his son, and invited him to come over again. They swim in the pool together and look through his priceless book collection. At the beginning of the pre-interview, Ian said, "Name a book that was really important to you as you were growing up." Sunheart said, "Lord of the Rings. Or maybe books by Casteneda." Ian of course, as the "grandfather" of the paperback book, and its inventor, had published them both in paperback. Sunheart gives Betty Secrets of Wholehearted Thinking, which she read cover to cover and later said was excellent. Ian recants his long life in service to humanity and says that the only thing that mattered to him was to "make a difference." He challenges Sunheart to "make a difference" in the world. Coming from Ian, it was hard to argue. He had alerted the US to the danger of Hitler, and helped bring the US into WWII. He helped trigger the environmental movement with "Population Time Bomb." He helped trigger the resurgence of Native American shamanism by popularizing Casteneda. He practically invented the SF novel, which led to Star Trek, etc. as well as the "mass market paperback."
July 11th, 1994 First taping for Author Quotes, taped three different segments, including one show with Nancy Willard on her new masterpiece, a novel, "Sister Water." Sunheart had to read three books and prepare 45 minutes of questions and comments about each book for TV (half hour segments, but enough questions to be flexible, since no editing would be done). He also interviewed Ian and Betty Ballentine and Playboy editor Alice K. Turner on her book on Hell. The Ballentine's new book was "The Native Americans." The shows played all that week, several times a day, and were repeated for many weeks.
July 15th, 1994 Book signing, workshop and lecture at Esoterica in New Paltz. One woman buys Wholehearted Thinking, publishes a version in Czechosolovakia. (Never confirmed).
July 17th, 1994 Sunheart gives all day workshop at Inner Focus in Cold Spring. From the Temple Within.
July 20th, 1994 Sunheart gives three workshops to pagan group at Brushwood in western New York.
August 1994 Sunheart plays a major role in organizing and supervising a "Native American Village" at Woodstock 1994 concert, rounding up over 30 native American environmental activists to help teach concertgoers about loving the earth. Also suggests idea of "a sacred ceremony" to open the concert, and pursuades Mark Lang to allow it. The opening is very successful, with Sunheart, Joanne Shenandoah, Jake Swamp, several Tibetan lamas, and 30 Native Americans on stage together to give the blessing. (Peter Max is an excellent stage manager and designer. Sunheart's group helped build some of the stage props). Sunheart goes three days without sleep working as peacemaker under "combat conditions," as everyone agreed it was. The concert continues without violence. (His efforts and those of his co-workers as "peacemakers' is described in detail in "The Way of the Heron" article published in The Cherokee Voice.)

Sunheart works with esoteric spiritual teacher and interdimensional traveler Robert Jay in Maryland to found Awareness Publishing Company and publish their collaborative novel, Andar's Message. (Consciousness, the Magic Lantern of Light.) Book is published early in 1995.
August 1994 Sunheart and Janet move to Newburgh, NY. See "Four Corners." Ian Ballentine dies. Sunheart has dream of him standing in new house. Gazing at him, Ian says "If you give up some of your comforts, you could make a difference in the world."
September 25th 1994; Sunheart and Janet receive key to house in Newburgh, move in.
September 26th, 1994 Sunheart sends Seven Silly Stories, and Fifty Stately Poems to an agent. Creates audio tape versions of both.
September 27th, 1994 Sunheart gives first instructions to Little Eagle in chess, Little Eagle wins one hard-fought game. Little Eagle had seen the movie "Looking for Bobby Fisher" just two weeks earlier. Little Eagle later becomes a highly ranked member of US Chess Federation, at the age of 12, nearly defeats several state champions around the country in tournament play.
September 28th, 1994 Sunheart recieves news that Aunt Helen is near death.
September 29th, 1994 Meeting with Jeff Cox, who is selling lots of Sunheart books in his shop, Artistic Notions.
September 30th, 1994 Sunheart finishes writing a complete draft of No Word For Time, 18 months of writing so far. Book is not published til 1997, but recieves critical acclaim from top authors and reviewers (see catalogue).

October 1st, 1994 House owners A and R leave for Florida. Sunheart creates and outlines concept of Four Corners book. Also buys a new amp.
October 2nd, 1994 Sunheart outlines entire book "If At First You Don't Succeed (Join the Club)"
October 3rd, 1994 Meeting with Rudy Dean, producer of show. He had just spoken with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post about The Agenda. Bob never ended up on the show. Sunheart prints 25 copies of Aunt Helen's Herb Book. Sunheart injured by overhead car gate as springs suddenly fail, mild concussion.
October 4th, 1994 Editor and PR director of Station Hill Press, Cathy Lewis, calls Sunheart, asks him to co-create a new public relations firm with her for authors who write about humanitarian causes, improving the human condition. He agrees. They later agree to call it "C.S. Lewis and Co, Public Relations," (Sunheart's idea, October 6th). Sunheart agrees to be Vice President. Over the next six years they work with over sixty authors, many of them national celebrities. Sunheart is editor, copywriter, ghostwriter, media consultant, and advisor. He scripts several national TV shows. C.S. Lewis books several "alternative" authors of Oprah Winfrey, and other major TV broadcasts.
Sunheart and Little Eagle invent "kittycorner chess," where the board is turned 45 degrees. Very difficult.
October 5th, 1994, Sweat lodge friend Wendy Pini gone to Hollywood to make her Elfquest comics brainchild into a movie.
October 6th, 1994, Sunheart's father calls to tell him of Aunt Helen's passing. She died at 3:00 PM. Sunheart's book signing experience with her was at 1:45 PM. But she had been fading gradually. Sunheart is autographing the herb book, and drawing speaks to him. Helen says, "Tell them Helen is no longer with us but she wishes you well." Sunheart did not know for a fact if she had died, but it turns out, she did die a few hours afterwards.
October 7th, 1994, Head for Maine to attend wedding and funeral with Janet and Little Eagle and 25 copies of the book which were originally intended for Helen for her birthday. She died a day too early to see them. Gas cap lost. Little Eagle helps find another one that fits.
October 8th, 1994, arrive at house in Maine in time for one hour sleep before getting ready for wedding. Sunheart meets locals David and Cheryl, long time friends of Helen's who become good friends of Sunheart.
October 9th, 1994 Little Eagle and Sunheart build sand castle on the beach.
October 10th, 1994 Sunheart sees great-grandfather Bill Mewer's grave for the first time. Helen, his daughter, will be the last one buried there. Bill was the inspiration for No Word For Time. All attend the funeral. Little Eagle lays on a stone bench imitating Helen's expression until Janet catches him and drags him off. Some of Helen's famous paintings are on display next to the casket. Sunheart meets Helen's main biographer, the legendary Helen Noyes Johnson, a stately woman of Helen's age. Brakes fail driving home, no accident however.
October 11th, 1994 Car fixed. Sunheart edits "Micmac Words and Phrases" for future edition. Little Eagle sees Jurrasic Park for the first time.
October 14th, 1994 Finished draft of "To The Finder of These Shoes." Gave it to Rachel to read on the plane to Bali. She said she couldn't put it down.
October 15th, 1994 Car wouldnt' start. Had to be repaired again. Hard times. Sunheart goes to wooded area, stands on a hill. The Creator speaks to him during simple ceremony, gives him the name Geezeegool Sa'an, or Old Grandfather. It is repeated to Sunheart three times. "If you use this name as you pray, your prayers will be powerful." Later, Sunheart attends a Lakota-style sweat lodge.
October 17th, 1994 Printed out Way of the Wabanaki from the Computer.
October 18th, 1994 Sunheart meets Russell Wilfand, an early pioneer of the New Age movement in America and founder of Esoterica Bookstore in Manhattan. A very colorful meeting. Later that same day, Sunheart met with Stephen Findlay at East West Book store. They ordered several Sunheart books. Later Findlay says, "Our home is your home."
October 20th, 1994 Phone meeting with John Hunt, President of Audio Literature Inc. He says he'll be talking soon to Debra Winger about going on the TV show, and doing talking book version of some Sunheart works. It never pans out, nor did the idea with Donovan Leitch reading From The Temple Within.
Cathy Littlefield offers to help with the RTA work.
October 23rd, 1994 Discussion with troubled school child in Staten Island, idea for book (never finished) then Sunheart drives to Sugar Loaf to work at his spiritual bookstore, Magic Touch. Rick Jarow, author of "In Search of the Sacred" walks in. He and Sunheart discuss publishers. Sunheart rereads Madeleine's Swiftly Tilting Planet, and gets idea for hosting a Thanksgiving day TV special with Madeleine L'Engle. (It works out perfectly, played for several Thanksgivings in a row on local TV).
October 24th, 1994 Pre-taped radio interview with WGNY radio personality "Eleanor" is cancelled. Eleanor wants Sunheart to interview her about the new book he is helping her develop. He readily agrees, but the session never happens.
Then Sunheart goes live on WDST with Doug Grunther and shares "If At First You Don't Succeed," to much studio laughter. Sunheart gives long consultation to Jimmy Buff, (later WNCY radio personality) concerning his divorce. He makes an offhanded comment to Jimmy that Howard Stern is mentally ill and negative and that someone should stand up to his sadistic behavior off mike. Jimmy later does so, on Howard Stern's own radio station, ( to honor Sunheart's wishes) without mentioning it to Sunheart. Howard Stern retalliates by making Jimmy grovel on the floor live on the air on WNYC. The station manager forces Jimmy to do it. Jimmy later quits his disc jockey position and prime time show on NYC to seek a saner life. Jimmy later says he'll never regret what he did. He said it was worth the forced groveling so that the message would get out. Even the humiliation ritual proved exactly what Sunheart had said was true. Yay Jimmy Buff!
Then Sunheart has planning meeting with Doug Grunther, and consults to Grunther on creation of Woodstock Communications Inc (WCI).
October 25th, 1994 Pre-interview with Madeleine L'Engle in her penthouse apartment in New York City. She prepares pasta prima vera for Sunheart for lunch. She shows him she keeps "Secrets of Wholehearted Thinking" on her coffee table for friends to see, or by her typewriter. Sunheart shows her "From The Temple Within" for the first time, also Way of the Wabanaki. The Steinway is delivered from the repair shop, in pieces. They watch as the piano is reassembled. She tells Sunheart that the piano was the one from Carnagie Hall, and has been played by Paderewski and Rubenstein, and insists that he add himself to that list. "You can be next!" she says. He gives her a private concert. She is overjoyed. As he plays, L'Engle comes up behind him with a first edition copy of Dragons On the Water," and gives it to him. The book is about the fictional Charles Wallace (whom they both know is really him) but it is one he has never read. There is a native american elder in it, and very accurately done.
ML likes the idea of the Thanksgiving special, and they make the dates.
Later, Sunheart plays chess with Little Eagle, and the younger wins easily. It is the beginning of a long trend. For Halloween, they travel at night to a sPookahahy old cemetery in the middle of the woods, with trees growing through graves. Very scary!
October 27th, 1994 Sunheart speaks with Robert Leavitt of Micmac Maliseet Institute. Leavitt later endorses No Word For Time, after offering some valuable editorial advice. Leavitt later writes his own book on Wabanaki people.
October 28th, 1994 Book four workshops with the Wittenburg Center in Woodstock. C.S. Lewis books first clients. (They are enormously successful)
October 31st, 1994, Father and son put on elaborate puppet show for trick or treaters, an old family tradition, probably the most elaborate and successful of all of them. Little Eagle's mother helped run the puppets. There was a "Frankenstien" who would lift his head out of the coffin to see you as you walked up, then wave then rise up in the coffin, all done with invisible fishing line. Then father and son went out to Beacon to find candy before curfew.
Interviewed Madeleine L'Engle, Cancer doctor Marc Straus, author of "One Word." and Paul Russell, author of "Sea of Tranquility." (deals with the psychological affects on astronauts of going to the moon).
November 1st, 1994, Name C.S. Lewis and Co. I'm VP. Doug Grunther sees my interviews, says "The camera likes you." He thought Alice K. Turner was irritating, and I should have dominated her and monopolize the air time if I'm more interesting.
November 2nd, 1994, Sunheart dreams of Blue Stone Cloud Cafe and bookstore, and fell in love with the woman standing in front of him in line. he wrote this dream down and described her. In 1998, at the Yellow Stone Cafe and bookstore, at Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, it happened exactly as he had dreamed it. It was the same girl, and she was part East Indian (which he couldn't see in the dream) She wouldn't talk to him, but Sunheart talked to her Hindu parents at length, and gave them From the Temple Within. They were very impressed with the book and were well-versed in metaphysics. They wanted to know "How did you learn all of this? You are an expert!"

Sunheart went to the Bardavon for a symposium on "Art as a Vehicle for Social Change." The MC Peggy introduced Sunheart royally and let him have the floor to ask questions of the panelists. Sunheart later learned that the MC, Peggy, had made booklets out of a statement Sunheart had written earlier on Art as a Vehicle... and handed one out to each person who entered the spacioius Bardavon Opera House for the symposium. Tony Smith sang "Johnny and Johanna Appleseed." Both are fond of Johanna Lawrenson, who lives a special kind of life." Sunheart spoke of how his most influential works of art were written for himself, when there was not much hope of others seeing it.
November 4th, 1994 Sunheart sees Arm of the Sea Theater, runs into Kay Olan.
November 5th, 1994 Sunheart attends book signing with Nancy Willard at Rudy Dean's Book Store, and gives her later draft of "Way of the Wabanaki," which she later plays a pivotal role in encouraging Sunheart to reconstruct. Sunheart read L'Engle's "Troubling a Star" for the first time. Sunheart develops outlines for four workshops at the Wittenburg center with Betsy Stang. They are 1/8/95 Self-Forgiveness 101, 1/29/95 "The Way of the Wabanaki," 2/19/95 "To the Temple Within," 3/12/95 "Spiritual Problem Solving." Sunheart was to be their resident guru for the winter. The flier said, "His books and workshops convey a global vision of unity in diversity which cuts through confusion and makes life a little simpler."
November 6th, 1994 Sunheart writes 12 pages of If At First You Don't Succeed." Robert Jay says he's given out lots of copies of From the Temple Within and everyone loves it. He said the book would become more important with time.
November 7th, 1994 Election day. Sunheart gets a letter from Draco's office stating that he has been "out of touch with the instructions of the master for over a year." It was true. Sunheart was tired of playing "stand up sit down" with Draco. He had been being a good soldier for twenty years and it was beginning to interfere with his own mission. He had released "From the Temple Within" within that year, and Draco's followers were calling Sunheart the true master. It was on this day that Sunheart sent in his certificate of the priesthood in the Draconians, at Draco's personal request. He got four sticky blue pennies as change. He went to the Newburgh library, and read a book on the "real" King Arthur. Robert Jay, a former Draconian and now an outspoken critic of Draco, asked how the vision of RTA was unfolding. Sunheart told him of the Wittenburgh series.
That night Sunheart turns on Star Trek and Wesley Crutcher gets promoted suddenly to a leadership position and ends up saving a planet. Sunheart was sad to give up on Draco after all those years of friendship with him, and being listened to for advice and good council, but the prophecies about his own life had been clear. Like Wesley, he knew that the planet was reaching a critical point, and that he would be called upon. Draco was no longer interested in anything but making money. C.S. Lewis books Sunheart on "What's New" TV show on America's Talking, part of CNBC cable. He is to talk about Wholehearted Thinking. They promised to pick him up in a stretch limo, she said. Sunheart laughs at the thought of a native american elder's assistant being driven around New York in a limo.
That evening, Sunheart does a long show with Doug Grunther on WDST. Grunther pulls out big philosophic texts and throws hard questions at Sunheart, calling him the "Peewee Reese of Spirituality" with the soft hands and the quick throw, and described Sunheart as his spiritual consultant. He says he wants Sunheart on the show every two weeks. Sunheart announces the Wittenburg series.
The elections were bad for Clinton. Cuomo resigned, giving a long speech.
November 8th, 1994

Saturday November 2nd 1996: 1 to 9 PM RTA seminar The Power of Vibration Holiday Inn North, Glen Burnie MD (RTA A Healing Force In the Universe) Lectures by Sunheart, (Orchestrating Your Energy Waves) Jon Dickau, Shell Koffler (The Merkabah Field) Robert Jay (The Debate in Metaphysics) Susan Schwartz (Jin Chin Jyutsu) and others.
It was about this time that Publisher's Weekly describes Sunheart as "A spiritual grandfather of the New Age."
1997 timeline not completed yet

January, 1998, Workshop at Inn at Northampton, MA. (31st)
Barnes and Nobles, Poughkeepsie, NY Concert of traditional Micmac music (with Brahm Stuart of Shaman) lecture and book signing. (30th)
Lecture, Unitarian Church, Croton, NY "No Word For Time" (24th)
Ethericon Convention, Poughkeepsie, NY Two lectures, Native American prophecies. (17th)
January 6th, 1998 Sunheart dreams of Michigan Patty as "Wise Wolf Mother" and calls her to give her that name.
January 9th 1998 Crystal Star's birthday. She comes up to visit. Sunheart gave her a spiritual ring. They go to see Titanic. She gets cold watching the last scene.
January 12th, 1998 Linsey's birthday.Sunheart goes to New York, to Barnes and Nobles at Astor Place and attends a lecture by Jean Houston on A Passion For the Possible, and gives her No Word for Time. She insists it be autographed, and inscribes his copy of A Mythic Life "To Sunheart, who lives a mythic life, love Jean" Sunheart meets Vicki Prentice, and later works with her, but nothing comes of it.
January 17th, 18th 19th Ethericon in Poughkeepsie. Strange ice storm. Sunheart meets Hathor. (Hathor is mother of the sky in Egyptian mythology, and marries Ra, the Sun God). Sunheart conducts three workshops.
Little Eagle writes "Don't take things too lightly. You can't throw a feather very far."
January 25th, 1998, Lecture/sermon at Croton Unitarian Church.
January 26th 1998 Meeting at Poughkeepsie Journal
January 30th, 1998 Lecture and concert, Q and A Barnes and Nobles, Poughkeepsie 7 PM New Age radio DJ Scott Raymond, Janet-from-another-planet, Crystal Star, attended. Tom Cowan, Celtic Shaman and author, attended. Brahm Stuart of "Shaman" plays fiddle in concert with Sunheart.
January 31st 1998 Festival of Lights, New Hampshire, Sunheart gives workshops, meets Dierdre Arthen.
February 6th, 1998, Barnes and Nobles, 81st and Broadway 7:30 Meets literary agent, Jenny. She becomes Sunheart's literary agent. Fred and Mary Anne Brusset (Values and Visions) are there, first meeting. Their blurb is now on cover of No Word For Time. Went to dinner with Jenny and others. Book signing. Meets with local Native American group.
February 13th, Assists with Talking Feather ceremony at Randolph School
February 19th, 1998 Stays with Lomi masters Alani and Tom in Michigan.
February 20th, 1998, Sunheart meets "Angelica" at Convocation in Detroit, at the Plaza Hotel in Southfield, Michigan. Sunheart's lecture schedule was heavy; 10 AM "Power of Vibration," 1 PM The Triple Goddess, 5 PM Book signing. Sunheart first saw Angelica at noon, then they talk at 3 PM. Sunheart is invited to be MC at open mike talent show, but talks to Angelica instead. Sunheart and Rod Reinhart go out to Chinese dinner. Malka asks Sunheart if he would throw flowers before a queen, and he touches Angelica's hand and says, 'That would depend on who wa queen."
February 21st, 1998, attends a banquet with Angelica at 5:30, Sunheart is to lead off Open Mike.
February 23rd, 1998 7 PM, Borders Bookstore event, 612 Liberty St. Ann Arbor, their flagship store. Michigan Patty and Alani and Tom are supposed to come, but disappear. Sunheart reads from No Word For Time. He asks, "What is 84 times 7?" Angelica says "588" without batting an eyelash. Angelica later has a vision, and in private kneels before Sunheart and says, "He carries the light for this time." No futher explanation. Sunheart composes "No Word For Goodbye" based on an improvisation performed when first parting with Angelica. (To be featured on Fire In Our Hearts CD)
February 28th, 1998 Sunheart performs live on WVKR, Vassar College, classical guitar, Pavane by Ravel and Andante Largo, by Sor. That recording of the Pavane was later used as the opening music for his University of the Air series, "World Religion, A New Perspective," broadcast worldwide by shortwave in 2000.
February 29th, 1998, Sunheart performs several classical pieces at a benefit concert in Saugerties organized by Hermann Ash, and Saugerties Pro Musica.
March 3rd, 1998 Meeting with Jenny in NYC. Got tour of Russell and Volkening offices, agents for Annie Dillard, Annie Pruett, formerly Joseph Campbell, many others. They all go out for dinner.
March 7th, 1998, Bookstore, Millbrook. Sunheart is late due to very poor directions, and the bookstore blames him. However, the workshop goes as planned. He first hears about and sees books by Eileen Charboneau. Later that night, Sunheart plays lead electric guitar in a jam session with the band R&R.
March 14th, 1998 Nashville Tenn. Special guest at Priscilla Sanders one- woman comedy show "I'm just waking up." SRO, and lines out the door, but it was announced that a special friend from New York (Sunheart) was to be called to the front for one reserved seat. Attended meeting with Tennesee Native American Alliance.
March 15th, 1998 First, Sunheart gives a sermon/lecture at Unitarian Church of Greater Nashville on Native American prophecies. The members are not very open to Native American teachings. That morning, on the front of the Sunday paper is a picture of the Alliance protesting the destruction of a Native American burial ground by Walmart in Nashville, including members of the Alliance, friends of Sunheart. Sunheart warned the audience that if such things were done to the earth and the earthkeepers, the prophecies say that destruction will happen, and mentioned that tornados were one way in which spirit made its presence known. A few days later, a tornado touches down in downtown Nashville for the first time in known history, knocking bricks off of buildings. Within a year, the congregation is disbanded.

3:30, Sunheart gives a workshop at Magical Journey book store in Nashville, a public workshop on Algonquin values and culture. Sunheart meets several new people who are to become part of the sunheart network. Sunheart has psychic reading/guidance from "Dawn Raven," who predicts his marriage to Angelica.
March 16th, 1998, to Open Mike at The Bluebird, but doesn't play. Hears concert by Cris Williamson and Tret Fure, and meets with beloved friend Cris after the show and discussed projects. She plays a new song about Chief Joseph. Sunheart meets with R. Sapp, Cherokee Alliance Officer.
March 17th, 1998, Sunheart goes to Florida, composes "So This Is Heaven," for Little Eagle, and also Angelica, who flies down to see him.
March 18th, 1998, Sunheart goes to Daytona airport in Florida to pick up Angelica on Northwest Airlines, but the woman says, "But Northwest doesn't come here. You need to be in Orlando." Sunheart leaves message with Angelica at her home and she knew to call there. When he arrives, he finds her with a lunch prepared for him, his favorite foods.
March 21st, 1998 Sunheart and Little Eagle go to see Twylah Nitch in Jacksonville Fl, and record an interview.They spend whole day with Twyla Nitch, Grand Clan Mother of Seneca, author of many books. They collaborate on material for Turtle Island Walkabout, a forthcoming book. They go to dinner with Desire Keeawok and husband.
March 29th, 1998, Sunheart gives a workshop at Beyond Words in Amhearst MA and signs books at The Whole Life Expo on the same day.
March 30th, 1998 Sunheart dreams he and soul mate Angelica would be together for at least 14 years. All psychics earlier and later confirmed this emphatically, however Angelica chooses to break off the relationship within a year.
April 1st, 1998, Sunheart sees a giant gnewt outside his house. Meaning unclear.
April 2nd, 1998 Sebastian Stuart, Sunheart's landlord, announces that Bantam will publish his novel "The Mentor."
April 5th, 1998 Completion of Michael Picucci's book, Journey to Complete Recovery. Sunheart is "ghost writer/editor" for six months for this important psychology book.
April 7th, 1998 A day of waterfalls with Angelica in New York State. To New York City, Angelica, and Sunheart go to Non-Violence Task Force at UN Sunheart speaks briefly. Angelica, who is a Madeleine L'Engle expert, and Sunheart go to Madeleine L'Engle's house. Sunheart plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on the grand piano, Madeleine gives Angelica a hardback copy of a rare book and autographs it, her birthday present to Angelica.
April 10th,1998 Angelica and Sunheart rendezvous with Venus at Niagara Falls.
April 11th, 1998 Angelica's birthday party in Michigan.
April 14, 1998 Attended Pulitzer Prize Awards, Columbia University. No Word For Time not selected, but Guns, Germs and Steel wins.
April 15th, Angelica's birthday.
April 17th, 1998 Craftwise at Danbury Hilton. Sunheart conducted Talking Feather at 7 PM.
April 18th, 1998, Craftwise. Sunheart and Durga late for big gathering at Brussets due to traffic jam. Sunheart meets Michael and Justine Toms, Toinette Lippy, and Ned Levitt, also Bob Scott, Richard Schiffman, Janet Cutting, all mark the beginning of important working relationships. Several people suggest Sunheart establish a Center for Algonquin Culture. He agrees to consider it.
* Brussets include No Word For Time in their book Spiritual RX and the TV series which follows--on Vision Cable in Canada. * Michael Toms interviews Sunheart on New Dimensions Radio, on 11,000 years of Algonquin Wisdom, broadcast worldwide. *Toinette Lippy is book editor, project with Bo Lozoff doesn't work out, * Ned Levitt, book agent, has many discussions with Sunheart, later attends a Sunheart concert. * Bob Scott hires Sunheart to write several articles for Spirituality and Health magazine. * Richard Schiffman interviews Sunheart in Virginia Beach for NPR radio, and advises on RFPI matters. Janet Cutting becomes friend and host for several important events in New York which Sunheart is involved in.
April 19th, 1998 Interview with Anne Bradley, New Age Journal, Native language and working habits.
April 21st, 1998, Sunheart and Angelica meet at Dulles airport, she delays one day, ear infection.
April 24th, 1998 American Indian Community House poetry reading Take The Red Road cancelled (flooding)
April 26th, 1998 Sunheart reads new experiment in Micmac-English poetry, premiering "Take The Red Road" at Hackettstown gathering, at Sentinery College sponsored by Chief Yona Gadoga, Brian Wilkes. Standing ovation. 100 in attendance, including members of 20-30 Native Ameircan nations. Book signing. Meets "Bird Lady" Charlene Kelly. He meets Daniela Gioseffi, author of In Bed With The Exotic Enemy, Women On War, Word Wounds and Water Flowers, and On Prejudice, A Global Perspective. Messages arrive that some certain people are arriving from Massachusetts, and that Sunheart will be killed if he speaks. Sunheart was warned at the door, and asked if he would still speak. He said, "What's the problem. I wouldn't miss it for the world." Nothing happens.
May, 1998 Sunheart signs on with Russell and Volkening, literary agents (R&V represented Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Annie Truitt, Annie Dillard, etc.)
May 10th, 1998 Sunheart dreams of Angelica with no head. He later discovers she is high-functioning autistic. Angelica begins therapy within a month or two.
May 11th, 1998 Meeting with Bo Lozoff in North Carolina.
May 16th, 1998 Gershwin concert in Queens with Durga. Sunheart conceives idea for 'A Renaissance of our Own," and begins writing it.
May 21st/22nd, 1998 Finished first color draft of the map of the Algonquin World. Sees a rose breasted grossbeak on the mountain.
May 23rd, 1998, party with Mohawk artist Henry Two Bears. They have long discussion about art, and discuss cooperative center between Iroquois and Algonquin. Lots of people there.
May 25th, 1998 Sunheart meets the beaver at his window for the first time Later that day, Sunheart sees an earthmover on the road with a lettered sign, "eager beaver." (Angelica back at Dulles Airport)
May 28th, 1998 Sunheart begins writing "You Can Make A Difference In an Indifferent World." The book was inspired by meeting a young hiker while visiting Plattkill Falls.
June 1st, 1998, Sunheart, on way to Detroit, realizes his famous "Red Bird" Nissan pickup is not going to make it in once piece, and quickly trades it in for a Neon "Expresso" with 32,000 miles. . Sunheart ends up getting a plane ticket to Michigan for the workshops.
June 4th, 1998 flight from Newark on Continental, Sunheart does workshops at convention in Detroit.
June 6th, 1998, Sunheart buys Angelica a scanner for $180, and work begins on publishing his father's masterwork The Sphinx and the Serpent, about Giza, Stennis, and Stonehenge, and other sacred sites of solar and stellar alignments. Angelica eventually scans the entire manuscript so that it can be edited, almost a thousand pages. Scanner breaks.
June 7, 1998 Workshop for children on Native American naming customs, Unitarian Church, Brookline, Michigan. Michigan Patty assists.
June 10th, 1998, Sunheart attends VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts) then meets with Brussats, helps them through a block in writing Spritual RX, which is now a bestseller on the Hyperion imprint, and a TV series in Canada on Vision Cable.
June 11th, 1998 Sunheart re-writes "So This Is Heaven" as a pop song.
June 16th, 1998 Sunheart lectures at SVA, School of Visual Arts in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.
June 19th, 1998, Sunheart and Angelica meet at Victoria Island in downtown Ottawa, possible new center for Algonquin Culture in Canada. Stay at friend Mike 's in a tent. Psychic predicts Sunheart will become a professor, but also predicts that Sunheart and Angelica will be married. Sunheart is asked to become a professor within a few weeks. Begins job in September 1998. Within two years, he is made Professor of Native American History.
June 20th, 1998, Gathering with William Commanda at Victoria Island. Sunheart announces creation of CAC, Center for Algonquin Culture, which is now recognized worldwide. As William Commanda conducts the ceremonial circle, a giant turtle walks into the center of the circle. Powwow near Victoria Island. Later, Sunheart and Angelica go back to Michigan.

June 24th, 1998, Talking feather and lecture with Archie Cheechoo. Sunheart tapes the lecture.
June 27th, 1998 Little Eagle arrives in DC. Sunheart and Little Eagle begin their summer journey to California.
June 30th, 1998 Sunheart and Little Eagle explore archives at Annapolis, MD.
July 4th, 1998 Sunheart and Little Eagle at Gettysburg re-enactment, a very big extravaganza involving what seems like thousands of actors and actresses.
July, 1998 Sunheart and Little Eagle visit little-known sacred sites at Bend, Oregon, Jamestown, North Dakota, Chillicothe, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, St. Mary's City, MD(and MD state archives). Meet with Council Oak staff in Tulsa, OK, tour Council Oak headquarters building, discussion of future publications at dinner. Sunheart has reunion with old friend from John Worrel Keely organization, Dale Pond.
July 15th, 1998, Sunheart and Little Eagle stay at the home of Michael and Justine Toms in northern California.
July 16, 1998 Sunheart given grand tour of New Dimensions offices. Races to Bay area to record interview with New Dimensions Radio in Sausalito, CA. at their home studios. Michael Toms says "You should meet Winona La Duke. She sat right in that chair you are sitting in." Things are a little rushed, but they have a really in-depth thoughtful interview about the Algonquin role in American culture.
July 16, 1998 Sunheart gives Native American workshop presentation at Institute for Noetic Sciences headquarters, Sausalito, CA. President of Noetic Sciences participates in the ceremony, announces his retirement. (He says it seems like the best setting to do so) Charles Garfield (author of Peak Performance) also in attendance. Toured Bay area with Garfields, Mrs. Garfield lent book on Olone Indians of area to CAC. Little Eagle watches 2001 movie with Charlie Garfield, who was a key player in the first Apollo moon mission.

Sunheart and Little Eagle attend A's game at Oakland Coliseum.
July 25th, 1998 Sunheart and Little Eagle to Kansas City Royals baseball game vs Angels. Little Eagle is very impressed with baseball. Decides to become baseball player.
July 27th, 1998 E and D see Tecumseh play at Chillicothe.
August 1st, 1998 Elders' Gathering in Maniwaki. Sunheart gives a talk on Algonquin culture for the first time at Elders Gathering. Angelica attends and helps William Commanda with the video camera battery pack.
August 7th, 1998, Sunheart sees Hamlet in Woodstock, author and client Susun Weed sits down next to him. Sunheart has a message for her and delivers it.
August 20th, 1998, Angelica and Sunheart end their relationship over the phone. Sunheart finishes first half of Light Workout, the full version, and sends it to Angelica.
August 26th, 1998, Sunheart picks up two Tibetan lamas on the street and gives them a ride to the monastery. The lama says Sunheart's Tibetan name Kunga Nima means "Shining Example." "Who give you this name?" the lama asks, critically. Sunheart answers, "Khenpo Kathar Rimpoche." "He named us too!" the lama smiles, pointing to his friend. He takes Sunheart to the shrine room and shows him the Thanka pictures at the monastery and said Sunheart was of one mind with the karmapas, part of the blessed rosary of the teaching lineage. He said Sunheart was always welcome at the shrine. They eat dinner, and Sunheart sees a picture of Jamgon Klungtrul in his new incarnation for the first time He says to Tashi, "I knew him, he was my friend." Jamgon and Sunheart had almost the same birthday, and Jamgon had died young in a car accident.

Sunheart's dream: "I was at 2016 Peabody with Little Eagle, and we had a squirt gun battle. Soon there was two inches of water on the floor, I panicked. Then Little Eagle pulled out a blanket-like piece of paper with dark blue sky and clouds and stars. It soaked up all the water.
August 28-31, 1998 Micmac spiritual gathering, University Settlement Camp, Beacon, NY Grandfather Turtle teaches.
August 31st, 1998, Sunheart begins a new life as a professor, teaches first courses at Catholic College, meets Dr. Minerva, peace activist, associated with "Praxis Project."

That night Sunheart has another angel dream:
"There was a student named Michael in my second English class that Monday, but I didn't get to talk to him. That night I dreamt of him, but it wasn't him. It was the angel Micheal, and he spoke to me. He said, "You know why you're here, don't you?" I said I wasn't sure. "He who has not yet been named will some day live and study at this College." I knew he was speaking of the return of Jesus. Later I had a dream where he felt Jesus' presence behind him and it was totally overpowering."
September, 1998 release of one hour tape (Via Hay House) of interview on New Dimensions Radio with Michael Toms entitled The Way of the Algonquin People, 11,000 Years of Wisdom.
September 5th, 1998, Sunheart went to the woods, and asked the tree goddess about Angelica. She said not to "bark up the wrong tree." Sunheart looked down and there was a piece of bark from a birch stuck in the branches of a pine. It was bark up the wrong tree.
September 8th, 1998, While driving across country, Sunheart stops in at his cousin, writer and teacher Mary, near Harrisburgh, PA. By coincidence, the TV was on and he witnessed Mark McGwire's 62nd home run live on TV a few minutes after arriving. At that time he had no thoughts of writing about baseball, or home runs.
September 12th, 1998 Sunheart is asked by Dr. Minerva if he could teach a World Views and Values class on 12 hours notice to replace a fallen comarade. Sunheart agrees and begins on the morning of his birthday. Sunheart gradually switches from English to philosophy and religion.
September 19th, 1998, They go to Angelica's house in Maine where she grew up--no walls or ceilings, dirt and filth and trash everywhere. Sunheart meets her sister and mother. She and Sunheart stay over.
September 20th, 1998 possible birth of Christ, according to Dead Sea Scrolls.
September 22nd, 1998 Sunheart does lecture, book signing at Saugerties Library, with Angelica attending.
September 23rd, 1998 Sunheart and Angelica go to DC for the annual Native American Prayer Vigil in front of the White House, on the Washington Monument grounds. Sunheart gives a prayer at sunset in Micmac language. Angelica falls asleep just before his talk and wakes up just afterwards. Sunheart notices a man in the crowd he has never seen before, but who shines with a great light. Sunheart goes over and offers his services to the man. It turns out to be Richard Schneider, Sunheart's phone friend from Portland Oregon. Richard has just stepped off the plane from Amsterdam. Richard insists Sunheart speak at the Belonging to Mother Earth conference only a few days away in Virginia Beach. Sunheart had just left a message saying it was impossible to go, but circumstances tricked Sunheart into saying yes. It is a turning point in Sunheart's life.
September 30th, 1998, Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, and 50th anniversary Jubilee of Isreal.
October 2nd, 1998 Sunheart writes "Silly Sentences" exercise and hands it out for the first time to help English students spot dangling participles and misplaced modifiers. Worksheets later adopted throughout the English department.
October 2-8, 1998, Belonging To Mother Earth, Virginia Beach.
October 4th, 1998, Sunheart plays and sings at orientation meeting at Virginia Beach in the morning. Sunheart is keynote speaker at Plenary Meeting after William Commanda, and gives "Tired of" speech, outlining Algonquin agendas, 1,000 in attendance. A tape of the speech is available for sale from RFPI (see their website). He is introduced by Demsimana of the Hopi, (Greasewood Flower Girl) whom he has just met. They begin to work and travel together. She is founder of Touch the Earth foundation, which may soon join forces with CAC.
October 5th, 1998, Sunheart gives three radio interviews in one day, plus a workshop. He meets Oannes Pritzger of RFPI. He sees Richard Schneider with a medicine mag and says, "That is a Penobscot pouch!" Richard answers, "Yes, it was made by Oannes and he is Penobscot." He presents his Algonquin maps at the head table by the door and talks the entire day to people asking questions about Native American history. Sunheart signs dozens of books.
October 6th, 1998, Sunheart sings many new songs for the first time in public between the speakers, including No Word For Goodbye, Boy and the Bear, and So This Is Heaven. When he sings the Micmac Honor song, the Wabanaki section of the room stands at attention. At one point Sunheart and former president of Costa Rica are on stage together. Depsimana presents him with a Hopi blanket of autumn and a corn bundle.
That evening, having not slept but a few hours, Sunheart drives back to New York with hotel roommate Roberto Borrero, now director of Native Activities at the American Musuem of Natural History, and others.
October 17, 1998 Workshop assistant at Omega Institute with Dr. Emmett Miller. Meeting with Jean Houston.
October 25th, 1998, First public performance of Bluescape (aka Paradox Suite) with flautist Bonnie Brown at Saugerties Pro Musica. When Sunheart had a dream a few months earlier where an "angel" predicted his death, he woke up thinking of that piece, and quickly worked to complete it.
November 5th, 1998, 2 hour interview on Emmit Miller's radio show broadcast nationwide on Wisdom Radio network.
November 7th, 1998 Sunheart premiers "Road Tested Bride" and performs other songs at Hudson Valley Folk Guild in Poughkeepsie. Extremely well recieved.
November 1998 Center For Algonquin Culture organizes10-day lecture tour on Native American prophecies with Sunheart and Depsimana of the Hopi in New York City and surrounding area. Some televised.
Meeting with members of UN with Hopi spokesperson, Depsimana, Bawa Jain.
Assisted in taping of Depsimana for cable TV show.
November 9th, 1998, Sunheart takes Depsimana on a tour of New York City. Depsimana goes on cable TV show, visits Bawa Jain, Janet Cutting and others. Bawa Jain treats Sunheart and Depsimana to a fancy Indian restraunt.
November 10th, 1998 Sunheart and Depsimana go to American Indian Colllege Fund dinner and meet Buffy Ste. Marie, Evan Adams and others. Sunheart gives Evan Adams the star of "Smoke Signals" a copy of No Word For Time, also one to Buffy Ste. Marie.
November 12th, 1998 Depsimana and Sunheart give joint workshop at Angel Quest book store in Wappingers, presenting both Hopi and Algonquin prophecies together.
November 15th, 1998 Sunheart and Depsimana go on WDST radio and then do a SRO joint workshop on original instructions to a packed house at Mirabai Books. Local cable station films the presentation.
November 25th, 1998, First broadcast of Sunheart's 11,000 Years of Algonquin Wisdom interview with Michael Toms on New Dimensions Radio in Bay Area of California.
November 26th, 1998 First broadcast of Sunheart's Living On Earth interview on NPR, concerning prophecies. Heard nationwide at different times, and on internet.
November 27th, 1998, Thanksgiving with Angelica and Sunheart family in MD.
December 1998 Publication of "Virtual Nation," re: Belonging to Mother Earth, in Spirituality and Health Cassette tape of Algonquin interview with Michael Toms listed in New Dimensions Radio catalogue.
December 5th, 1998, Sunheart performs classical guitar at Christmas pagaent with flautist Bonnie Brown in Hudson NY.
December 20th, 1998, Sunheart in Michigan, final split with Angelica, by mutual agreement. With Angelica's blessing, Sunheart goes to Wisconsin, and does interview with Three Fires Midewiwin Medicine Chief Eddie in a blizzard, on the four gifts of the Ojibway Traditional Teachings. Sunheart writes it up as part of an article for ARE's (Association for Research and Enlightenment) Millennium Magazine.
December 31st, 1998, Sunheart goes to New Year's Eve party in Greenbelt with Little Eagle.
January 1st, 1999, Sunheart sings at Greenbelt coffeehouse.

January 1999. Sunheart presents lecture on Algonquin non-violence in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at Kingston Unitarian Church. Feature article, "Native Wisdom," published in New Millennium Magazine, ARE Publications. Attends United Nations event "Season for Nonviolence," in Assembly Hall, representing the Center for Algonquin Culture. Meets with Arun Gandhi, Reverend C.T. Vivian, (who discovered Martin Luther King) Bawa Jain and other non-violence leaders.
February 1999. Attends Midewiwin Lodge ceremonies in Ontario, Canada at the invitation of Medicine Chief Eddie Benton Benaise. Discussions with Abenaki leader and elder-in-residence at Dartmouth University, Molly Keating, talk about new Wabanaki confederacy. Molly gives him Micmac medicine for a headache. He gives her several books and tapes. Sunheart meets Irene Washinawatok on Valentine's Day inside the lodge house and shakes her hand. He picks her from out of the crowd, not knowing who she is, but seeing the great light around her, and falls in love with her shining spirit. She is busy taking care of children and elders, and doesn't say too much, but Sunheart is humbled in her presence. He asks others about her, and they say she is a great woman and very brave. They tell him she is leaving for South America later that same day on a dangerous mission. As many people already know, Irene was held captive a few days later, and eventually martyred in the cause of peace.
Sunheart presents three workshops on Native American culture at Convocation in Detroit, for the third consecutive year.
March 1999. Workshop on Algonquin culture presented to the Red Basket Circle in Westerly, Rhode Island.
April 1999. Center for Algonquin Culture incorporated under the auspices of the Institute for Global Education, an Oregon non-profit organization.
Guest speaker at Red Nations Remembrance in New Jersey.
May 1999. Met with Mashintucket Pequot Museum program administrator, Trudy Lamb, in Mashantucket, Connecticut concerning future lectures at the museum.
June-July 1999. Visits sacred sites around the United States, including Huron site at London, Ontario, Tree of Peace site at Onondaga Lake, Kahokia site in Illinois, Canarsie sites in Brooklyn, and Munsee sites in New York City. Extensive research also conducted at The New York Historical Society.
August 28, 1999. Keynote speaker at the 100th anniversary interfaith celebrations at Vivekenanda Retreat, Ridgely, New York. Book signing. Initiated new Native American shrine.
August 1-2. Lectures twice, presented original maps of linguistic regions at Gathering of Elders, Maniwaki, Que.
August 1999. Receives funding to collaborate with Native American author Eileen Charbonneau to create an opening monologue (and CD) in Lenape for the premiere of a new play, "Manitouak." (CD available; see catalog)

Receives funding to present a workshop with leading Native American author Joseph Bruchac (National Library Association's Man of the Year for 1998). Pritchard's assignment was to research specific local area stories, beliefs and animal lore, and present the material both live and in a special handbook published for participants.

Taped one hour interview with Carolyn Craft on The Wisdom Channel (Turner Broadcasting) radio show in Bluefield, West Virginia.
September 17, 1999. "A Fire in Their Hearts; The Saga of the Algonquin People of New York City," presented at The New York Open Center. Pritchard's multi-media presentation included original full-color maps, word charts, a slide show and original music. Several special guests appeared, including Mark Peters, the Grand Chief of the Munsee Nation, and former Chief, Leo Nicholas, and Deputy Chief of Cherokee, Brian Wilkes. SRO.
September 19, 1999. Present welcoming ceremony in Micmac (with Kay Olan Rotzler) in honor of visiting Munsee elders at Mohonk Mountain Preserve. Tour ancient rock shelter archeological sites with Mohonk research director and Steven Comer, spokesperson for the Mahican people. Toured Lenape long house site. Interviewed by The Woodstock Times and other news media. Munsee poem published in The Woodstock Times.
October 1999. Collaboration on Montagnais article for Men's Journal.
Collaboration with William Commanda, the Wisdom Keeper for Algonquin nations, to create the introduction to a major new book, Belonging to Mother Earth, about the historic world indigenous people's conference held October 1998 in Virginia Beach.Collaboration with Iron Thunderhorse, Quinnipiac Nation. Received manuscript for new book on Micmac Glottographic Writing Systems, for evaluation. Sunheart invited to speak at Algonquin Research Conference at Purdue University, but the details aren't worked out in time.
November 20, 1999. Sunheart performs his original monologue from the CD "Lenape Farewell" (lyrics in English and the Lenape language), with the famed Native American Jazz ensemble The Hawk Project. The performance takes place at the Annual Giving of Thanks event at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, before an estimated 1,000 people. The Hawk Project was founded by fellow Micmac, flutist, and monologist Ken Little Hawk, who has performed at the White House.
December 1999. Article on Native American non-violence techniques in action published in Cherokee Voice.
December 27th 1999 bowling with Little Eagle. Sunheart bowled 105 and 102. Articles for Cosmic Baseball Association Journal written.
December 28th 1999 Sunheart and neighbors produce Little Eagle's classic film remake "Clue."
December 29th 1999 Little Eagle's flight leaves for Florida
December 31st 1999, Sunheart goes to Washington DC for New Years Eve celebration, decides to go home to parent's house and watch the "Global New Years" show on TV. Was inspired to write "Ethics 2000."
January 2000. University of the Air show "World Religions, a New Perspective" to be broadcast worldwide from Costa Rica via short-wave radio station RFPI (Radio for Peace International), in conjunction with Richard Schneider and Robert Muller of The University for Peace. (Muller is the developer of the Worldcore Curriculum.) RFPI is also affiliated with the United Nations. Pritchard's book, No Word for Time, will be featured on the program "Spiritual Literacy," broadcast on Vision Cable, a national Canadian network on January 25th.
January 1st, 2000 The new Millennium begins. EP writes for four days on "Ethics 2000" (soon to be available from Sunheart Books)
January 3rd 2000 Ruth Schneider, a founder of RFPI, and founder of a school in India, dies. Her dying request was to have Sunheart's song "Do Cats Have Dandruff" sung at her funeral ceremony. She claimed that the silly song had a power for her that made her laugh even in the face of death, and removed her pain. She told many people this, and had them read the words out loud wherever she went. (Included on "You Gotta Be Crazy" tape)
January 9th 2000 Performance at Unitarian Church in Chattanooga TN with Rainbow Weaver, former assistant to Grandma Twylah 11 AM Sunday Sunheart has lunch with group, heads south, camps at Ocala.
January 10th, 2000, Sunheart meets Pookah in Tampa, then Little Eagle 5:30 PM in Daytona
January 16th, 2000 Sunheart and Pookah visit Sunheart's uncle. Sunheart sees Greatest Home Run tape.
January 17th, 2000 Pookah and Sunheart visit Miami "Circle." Meet Caribe elder.
January 19th, 2000 Pookah and Sunheart near Oannes's home, but he leaves for Costa Rica.
January 22nd, 2000 Sunheart sings at Memorial for Ruth Schneider at Janet Cuttings in New York. Durga plays the part of the cat.
January 23rd, 2000, Sunheart lectures at Hollis Unitarian Church in Queens, on The Way of the Heron (Part One) this was the one videotaped. This videotape is available by special request.
January 25th, 2000, Excerpt from No Word For Time read with ocean footage on national TV on Vision Cable in Canada, on the series Spiritual RX.
January 28th, 2000, Sunheart attends kickoff for Season For Non-Violence at the United Nations. He is the only Native American present wearing traditional clothing; ribbon shirt and choker. He meets Pema Dorje, an advisor to the Dalai Lama, and they spend several hours together, mostly laughing. Shakes hands briefly with old friend Arun Gandhi and Gandhi family. Hears "Zero" speech by India's representative to the UN.
February 2nd, 2000 Sunheart takes census test. Interview with Madeleine L'Engle for World Religions, a New Perspective. 5 PM. Cut short.
February 2rd, 2000, Second interview with Madeleine L'Engle. Technical problems. Sunheart dreams of lights shining from a cloud. Sunheart was sitting in a car in the dream. The light came shooting down from the sky and hit him in the left eye. Five months later, he would temporarily lose sight in that eye due to Lyme's Disease.
February 10th, 2000 Phone interview with Coleman Barks, very lively discussion.
February 11th, 2000 Lecture by Steve Comer 7:15. (First meeting?) Boughton Place.
February 15th, 2000 Scheduled to leave for Florida. Pookah leaves front door open, a huge wind comes up and blows door off. Arrived late to DC.
February 16th , 2000 Arrive in DC. Sunheart takes Pookah on the "skim the cream" tour of Washington, see Fords Theater, Archives, National Gallery of Art, with Martin Johnson Heade exhibit, then go to Linsey's, who fixes his traditional bear necklace. Sunheart meets the dog, Linsey and Sunheart decide to call him "Mohican" which is "wolf" in Cree.
February 17th, 2000 Sunheart and Pookah to Savannah GA, eat at Pedro's South of the Border.
February 18th, 2000 met with Little Eagle see "Snow Day" Sunheart pitches to Little Eagle in the batting cage, learns that breathing deeply while pitching at the same time can help accuracy. Sunheart drives to Ft Lauderdale with Pookah, get in at 2 AM at C.S. Lewis' aunt.
February 19th, 2000 Pookah and Sunheart go to beach. Pookah cries as money arrives for her from her recently deceased partner. They watched three movies, Orpheus, Belle et Bette, and Santo Sangrei. Meeting on Resonance Books.
February 20th, 2000 work 7 hours with C.S. Lewis on Steve Sinatra's heart book, then saw "Hanging Up" in the theater.
February 21st, 2000 talked to Frank Howard on the phone.
February 26th, 2000 Went with Little Eagle to Tampa Bay Devil Ray's spring training camp. Get autographs, meet Frank Howard in person. Raymond Niemooley Minor League Complex. Got interview for forward of baseball book, autographs from Greg Vaughn, also Bubba Trammel. Pookah and L. and D. arrive late due to flat tire, then Pookah and Sunheart go to see Dali exhibit, in Tampa, have smoked fish with L & D.
February 28, 2000 work with C.S. Lewis.
March 1st, 2000 flight home on Jet Blue.
March 4th, 2000 Sunheart begins class on World Views and Values for Catholic College at Residence Inn.
March 5th, 2000 Interview with Swami Atmarupananda for RFPI radio.
March 10th, 2000 attend lecture by Henny Wise at Boughton Pl.
March 16th, 2000 Sunheart invited to attend symposium at SUNY with Ron Welburn, African-American Algonquinist and author. Sunheart arrives late, sits in the corner. Later, someone at the front leaves, and Dr. Airy Dixon brings Sunheart to sit there. Sunheart asks a question. Welburn asks in response, "Are you Sunheart?" (yes) "I recognized you from your pictures. Thank you for coming to this meeting." Welburn stops the symposium to have a personal chat with Sunheart about No Word For Time in front of the others, for several minutes, and gives him a grand welcome. They later discuss Native American jazz players, Sunheart gives him "Algonquin Eagle Song," and later includes Welburn's bio in it among its many biographies. Sunheart also meets the great Islamic scholar David Lanborn Wilson, author of "Notes in the Margins of Islamic History" and several other deep books. Later, Sunheart has a wonderful interview on the indigenous roots of Islam with David.
March 17th, 2000 Taped radio interview with Dr. Bernard LaFayette on life of Martin Luther King etc. Dr. LaFayette was King's assistant and was with him the day King was shot. King had hoped that LaFayette would succeed him and begin the new phase of the Black Civil Rights movement. LaFayette was the negotiator/mediator at Wounded Knee, and was shot at by CIA, but was able to get both sides to talk to each other.
March 20th, 2000 interview with Ellen Weaver, feminist pre-Mosaic Jewish speaker.
March 22nd, 2000 recording session with Jon at Diversity Studios for "Long Lost Feeling."
March 23rd, 2000 Sunheart meets with highly revered Micmac Chief from Conne River Band, Meisel Joe at Susan Randizo's house in Woodstock.
March 25th, 2000 dinner meeting at Red Lobster with Crystal Star Green about Sunburst and campaign writing for elections.
March 27th, 2000 baseball book proposal to Jenny.
April 2nd, 2000 Sunheart gives lecture at Hollis Unitarian Church in Flushing, on Algonquin Non -Violence in honor of Martin Luther King anniversary.
April 3rd, 2000, Crosby Stills, Nash, and Young concert at Madison Square Garden.
April 4th, 2000 Suneheart drops in unannounced at Pound Ridge trailside museum. Sunheart meets Beth Hess, director. He shows her various books, maps, tapes, etc. and answers some of her questions. She is very enthusiastic, and decides to book workshop for fall. Dramatic entrance! This helps inspire an expansion of the work "Native New Yorkers."
April 5th, 2000, Sunheart works at new C.S. Lewis headquarters at Van Dale for first time.
April 6th, 2000 first installment of tapes for RFPI sent.
April 9th, 2000 RTA revival at Woodstock Community Center 6 PM to 10, hosted by Sunheart and Davida. Swami Atmarupananda lectures, also Teviot Fairservice, who talks on pagan ritual. She is the daughter of Robert Fairservice the Egyptologist. It snowed heavily, but people still came, some by foot.
April 11th, 2000 finished first draft of baseball book, went to Little Bear alone to celebrate. Met legendary author and story teller Joia Timpanelli and husband celebrating the completion of his book on Kingston architecture! Joia later blurbed the new No Word For Time.
April 14th, 2000 Mohican Seminar in Albany. Sunheart attended, but did not speak. He was introduced to everyone by director Steve Comer and invited to speak in the future.
April 15th, 2000 tax day, Jenny's birthday
April 16th, 2000 Little Eagle's birthday, also Angelica's. Sunheart gives lecture at Flushing Unitarian Church. Interests "Hoppy" in baseball book. Videotape made of lecture.
April 18th, 2000 failed attempt at meeting with Beth Herr at Trailside Museum.
April 22nd 2000 to Washington DC for Easter
April 26th, 2000 to Grandfather Turtle's Medicine Lodge at High Falls, direct from MD. Sunheart was very sick, Grandfather thought diabetes, Sunheart thought it was car exhaust. It was Lyme's Disease.
April 29th, 2000 Prayer circle at Randolph School with Grandfather Sunheart plays baseball with B.
April 30th, 2000 Sunheart speaks at Red Nations Rememberance at Morristown NJ on Lenape history. (Sunheart had left tobacco there a few days before) Sunheart meets Charlene Kelly, sees her in a beam of sunlight. Successful book signing.
May 3rd, 2000 Sunheart mails new will and testament.
May 4th, 2000 Boy With Three Eyes, first edition of kids book finished.
May 5th, 2000 trying to buy new car. See phony Saturn dealer.
May 6th, 2000 reception in Kingston for famed local artist Brock. Sunheart and Brock meet for the first time. LT never shows up.
May 7th, 2000 Charlene Kelly shows up in Woodstock, brings gifts.
May 9th, 2000 meeting with Bedscapes founder. JA.
May 11th, 2000 Sunheart does not connect with Bond at Yale or go to symposium.
May 13th, 2000 Dina Fanai's birthday Sunheart goes to Kaatsbaan in rain with Durga.
May 14th, 2000 Sunheart walks with Kate McDonald up Overlook Mnt. They get to the top.
May 15th, 2000 New Dimensions Radio begins worldwide broadcast of Sunheart's show on No Word For Time 11,000 years of wisdom. Estimated 7 million listeners. Sunheart buys "Black Hawk" a Toyota Tercel, but was tricked on interest rates. He fought to get them down one point. Sunheart submits finished version of Home Run Legends to Jenny.
Sunheart sends father's Appendix VI to volunteet Dussard for scanning.
May 18th, 2000 Sunheart's first visit to Spirit of the Woodlands Gallery. As Pookah entered, a hurricane came up and blew out the lights. Sunheart gave her Algonquin Eagle Song.
May 19th, 2000 Meeting with Gioia Timpanelli (New Dimensions show still airing)
May 21st, 2000 Sunheart goes to Woodlands Art Gallery in New Paltz, to possibly perform, Kay Olan and Dennis perform only, Pookah was not happy.
May 23rd, 2000 Sunheart mails last installment of RFPI tapes on the way to downtown Ottawa for concert at Circle of All Nations with William Commanda.
May 24th, 2000 Sunheart misses Snowmass Conference at Vivekenanda Retreat, due to conflicting schedule.
May 25th, 2000 Kate Mc D subs for WV&V class. Sunheart recounts his memories of that day in Ottawa. "I couldn't find the spot in Ottawa. I sat down in the park very tired. A Native American woman came up and talked to me. I asked her where the Circle of All Nations gathering was. She said she was just there. I arrived at the tent behind the art gallery as big rain storm blew up. Suddenly I felt very tired. The wind was whipping the tent ferociously, but I made it to the gathering. I was able to stay in a room at a nearby hotel with some of William Commanda's friends.
May 26th, 2000 Friday, early, there was a talking feather circle, and a woman named Mercedes was there. She said "now is the time for change!" Sunheart didn't end up speaking in the circle. Sunheart had a major concert that night, but explored the city of Ottawa with Mercedes and was delayed for several hours. Sunheart ended up going on first, which was scary, since Sunheart didn't have time to rehearse at all. It went fine. Sunheart finally sang "The Message" for the Hopi prophecy elders and William together. It was the first complete song Sunheart wrote, and after singing it for William realized it was about the Hopi elders. The concert went well. Sunheart sang So This is Heaven as a concert opener, sang The Message as a premiere, and then No Word For Goodbye as a closer. Sunheart met Bill Brandt of the Algonquin University, a direct descendant of Joseph Brandt, and showed him the maps, which he had with him. Georgina La Roc was also there in the front row. Also an eskimo man named "Your Uncle." Sunheart had a great time with Frank Nevin, Traditional Micmac Grand Chief, and gave him No Word For Time. Sunheart wanted to call him The Big Cheese, and said "Uktchee-Muligidjoomee" but he laughed and said that means "big tits." Everyone laughed.

May 27th, 2000 Sunheart goes back to New York and finds Pookah, reading the baseball book in a hotel. They travel back together.
May 28th, 2000 Sweat lodge at High Falls.
May 29th, 2000 Sweat lodge in NY at High Falls.
May 30th, 2000 gasoline smell enters cabin. Sunheart thinks it is stove, which Pookah was working with. Call from Council Oak, had to do 5 AM nationwide broadcast next morning. Sunheart felt sick from gas fumes, but Sunheart stayed up til 2 working, then got up at 5 AM to do live radio show, it was a chaotic show, crazy questions. The fumes were unbearable. It was Good Day USA network.
May 31st, 2000 Dream holiday. No particular dreams, Sunheart had to pull the place apart to find the source of the leak. Sunheart was partially paralyzed.
June 1st, 2000 RFPI broadcast starts. Sunheart had left his coat at the sweat lodge, so has to get it from D's house.
June 2nd, 2000 Grandfather Turtle's Healing Center opens!
June 3rd, 2000 Sunheart sings plays guitar and tells stories at the healing center in New Brunswick.
June 4th, 2000 concert with Archie Cheechoo (now working on his second CD) and Sunheart.
June 8th, 2000 SSE, the Society for Scientific Exploration, starts, Sunheart can't make it, work for Catholic College, can't get away. Sunheart goes to Ottawa, still sick from gas leak. SSE gives large advance.
June 9th, 2000, Sunheart travels to London Ontario. They arrive in evening, too late for picnic.
June 10th, 2000 Lecture at 9 AM, keynote speech. 40 minute talk with 10 more minutes for questions. His talk is called "Comprehensivism, The Wave of the Future (and the Past). He disclosed for the first time a number of his theories and findings about the Golden Age of Algonquin Culture. It is highly successful. Sunheart meets author of Saharasia, James DeMeo, Karen Wesoloski (who cries during Sunheart's talk) John E. Mack, the famed psychiatrist who works with alien abductees. Dr. Mack hands him a "top secret" paper, and many other authors and notables. There was a dinner in the evening.
June 11th, 2000 Sunheart heads back to Ottawa
June 17th, 2000 Clearwater Festival in Croton, 17th and 18th. Sunheart sees /speaks with Pete Seeger, Vance Gilbert, Hathor, hears Janice Ian, others.
June 23rd, 2000 evening circle and gathering in MD, with sister Venus. Sunheart and Venus present White Wolf hats to mother and father, hand made by White Owl of the Algweemoo family of Micmacs in New Brunswick. Sunheart's mother didn't feel worthy to wear such a hat at first. White Owl said to "wear it on behalf of your clan." That advice worked well for her.
June 24th, 2000 Sunheart sees Fantasia 2000 with parents.
June 26th, 2000 Start work on new project Built on Trust with C.S.Lewis.
June30th, 2000 stereo installed in car in Westchester, then to Queens to go with Durga to see Mets-Braves game. She didn't show up on time, so they got to the game rather late. There was extra traffic, and she refused to follow Sunheart's advice, and tried to park away from the stadium, and they circled Shea for three innings, then had a long walk. In the mean time, the Braves scored three runs. It was a miserable time for both, and totally unnecessary, because parking was available.The score got to be 8 to 1 Braves. It was the first game with Atlanta since the Rocker incident, and there were double police and no alcohol allowed. He was not going to play. But it had a happy ending, because with two outs in the eighth, the Mets scored 7 times to even the score. Then Piazza came up with two on and still two out, and he looked angry. He slashed a line drive to left which went over the outfield fence in less than a second, and the Mets went ahead 11 to 8. It was a turning point in baseball history.

The Braves had been unbeatable. This record-breaking ten run rally with two out gave the Mets confidence to start to fight back. They got close to first place the following week, and then stole the National League Pennant from the Braves as a Wild Card team that fall.

The crowd went wild. Both managers later said it was the loudest cheering theyd ever heard, and the biggest comeback they'd ever seen. The fireworks afterwards were anti-climactic.
July 1st, 2000 They watch Mets beat Atlanta again on TV, and get close to first place.
July 7th, 2000 Mets and Yankees match up in pre-amble to the World Series. Sunheart had tickets but didn't go, feeling tired, and working on Built on Trust.
July 10th, 2000 Built on Trust finished.
July 11th, 2000 This may have been day Sunheart woke up paralyzed from Lyme's and Bell's Palsy. Sunheart thought it was bad thyroid pills, and ran out of new bottles, went to city to try to find Vernon on the street, got new pills, it didn't help. Saw Dina Fanai, she helped with the eye problem, but the problem kept getting worse. Sunheart keeps getting sicker and sicker.

Parents get plane tickets for Little Eagle to arrive at BWI at 11:45 AM on July 18th, 2000 . Sunheart and Little Eagle reunited. They do things around Greenbelt, play chess, baseball, etc.
July 30th, 2000 Sunheart David and Durga go to Old Timer Mets day vs the Cards. Willie Mays throws out first pitch and its wild. Misses the plate.
August 4th, 2000 Spiritual Gathering of Elders at William Commanda's house. Little Eagle and Sunheart go.
August 6th, 2000 (Sunday) Sunheart gives major lecture on "the map" before elders gathering. He meets Marilann Mustard, assistant to Ovid Mercredi, Matthew Coon-Come.
August 7th, 2000 Sunheart and Little Eagle tour Ottawa.
August 18th 2000 Doctor's checkup on Lymes
August 19th, 2000 Sunheart begins work on "Things Fall Together" again, works on drawings of Little Eagle's mother Lily Swann for his present. These drawings were portraits from life from about 1983.
August 22nd, 2000 party at the artist Brock's 4:30 Sunheart meets Dr. Joe Diamond, and sees his collection of Munsee artifacts, and meets Dr. Chris Lindner too. Dr. Diamond later lectures at Sunheart's Native American class.
Ausust 26th, 2000 Sunheart goes to Native American concert at Rosendale, just to relax and meet friends. It turns out Sunheart is one of the scheduled performers. He borrows guitar and performs "Fire In Our Hearts" and other songs. He sees Cherokee sax great Hugh Brodie again, and meets his daughter Donna Brody. Hugh is one of the main performers and sings his trademark "Blackbird." Roland Moussa videotapes and performs.
August 27th 2000 Hugh calls and asks questions about Lenape language and words for God. That inspires the writing of the book Native New Yorkers before Columbus, a first version of which was written within a few days of feverish creativity. This later becomes Native New Yorkers.
September 4th, 2000 Midewiwin held for the first time at William Commanda's house. Sunheart attends lodge, meets an Ojibway woman elder, very traditional, tells him of the little people, and also a young Ojibway sage. He explores the area, Alumette Island. He calls an elder near Allumette to try to get together, but timing doesn't work out. Allumette is very difficult to see.
September 6th, 2000 first day of class
September 8th, 2000 Sunheart delivers The Way of the Heron speech at Boughton Place by a camp fire. Claire Danielson, director, gives him The Peacemaker by Jean Houston as a present. Several people say it is the best talk of the year long series "Original Instructions."
September 12th, 2000 Sunheart's 45th Birthday
September 13th 2000 Dr Joe Diamond gives lecture in Sunheart's class.
September 22nd, 2000 7:30 Sunheart gives major presentation at The New York Open Center "A Fire In Our Hearts." A 100 page version of Native New Yorkers is produced and sold as a limited edition. Sandy just gets back from vacation, everything a mess,
September 23rd, 2000 DC vigil, Sunheart can't attend. Durga had offered a ride, but fails to tell him that her car is broken and is leaking exhaust. They ride a few blocks and Sunheart gets very ill and is incapacitated for days.
September 26th, 2000 Sunheart watches as Atlanta plays Mets at Shea, the pennant is on the line. The Mets blow it completely on a cold wintery night.
September 28th, 2000 Dream of Michigan Patty. Sunheart travels with Durga to Boston, and attends a PEER meeting and ceremony with Sequoia Trueheart. Sunheart runs into his friend Dr. David Pritchard at the party, the head of MIT's quantum physics department, and they get into a lively argument over quantum physics, specifically Bell's Theorum. Sunheart meets Pritchard's wife also. Sunheart has meeting with Dr. Mack about the astronauts and their relationship to abductees. Sunheart informs Dr. Mack of certain rumors about what they saw on the moon, and Dr.Mack feels he is the one best qualified to really listen to their stories sympathetically. Sunheart speaks briefly at the assembled meeting of the minds concerning the future of the human race, quoting from his notes on his forthcoming book, Native New Yorkers. Sunheart and crew spend the night at John Mack's house. They leave at dawn for Canada.
September 29th, 2000 Sunheart travels to Red Willow Lodge in New Brunswick, to perform music and be a flag carrier at the powwow. Sunheart, Venus, and Durga perform music in the evening for the Micmacs.
September 30th, 2000 Forwarding order expires for Box 215, the end of an era, 15 years as the home of the world famous Resonance Magazine. Sunheart, Venus, and Durga travel to Burnt Church in the north of New Brunswick to perform at Burnt Church Powwow. This is a major gathering in support of the non-violent resistance to police interference with Micmacs enjoying their fishing rights guaranteed by law. Linsey meets up with H., later Durga and Sunheart run into Donna Augustine (Howard is her cousin)
September 31st, 2000 Durga and Sunheart go to Nova Scotia.
October 12th, 2000 Article comes out in Kingston Freeman and three other major Hudson Valley papers, about the upcoming Native American concert, with writeups about Sunheart and lots of photos. Sunheart is asked to identify Steve Rust the bass player in the photo by the Freeman, and thinks of Gus Mancini and finds his card easily. He learns that Ken Little hawk is in town. Ken Little Hawk at Ken Loveletts studio. Sunheart sits in on recording of Ken's new CD of flute music, gives some advice. Reminds Little Hawk to use his trademark "humming" flute technique on the CD. Little Hawk almost forgot! It is a great performance.
October 14th, 2000 Sunheart's concert at Spirit of the Woodlands 7 PM for Huguenot Society and in honor of the spirits of the Munsee ancestors. Ken and Gus from The Hawk Project are side men for an all-Sunheart event. Durga and Davida sing backup. Standing room only crowd, with a number of local Native Americans present. Many books are signed. The music starts with very traditional style music, and becomes gradually more elaborate, more contemporary.
October 16th, 2000 Mets win NLCS over Giants. Win the NL pennant. Sunheart brings champain for Lou and Billy.
October 17th, 2000 Yankees win ALCS, AL
October 18th, 2000 Native American studies midterm.
October 21st, 2000 First game of subway series, Yanks win.
October 22nd, 2000 Sunheart gives presentation on the Lenape of the New York area at the Trailside Museum at 2 PM, then walks in the woods to Bear Rock petroglyph with Pat Thrane and Chinese woman, Jenny. Second game of series, Mets make great comeback, but fall one run short.
October 24th, 2000 deadline for new material for No Word For Time for Council Oak. Mets win 4-2 at Shea.
October 25th, 2000 class at college Sunheart go to student's dorm to see game, Mets lose 3-2.
October 26th, 2000 Al Leiter pitches great, but loses due to bad call in 9th. Yanks win series.
October 29th, 2000 Get job as chaufeur for Bob K., he stays out til 3 am, doesn't get home til next morning.
October 31st, 2000 Halloween, Sunheart help Davida in emergency move. Interviews Paul McMahon about Hopi prophecy for NY book.
November 1st, 2000 Brian Wilkes lectures at Sunheart's Native American class.
November 2nd, 2000 Sunheart subs for ethics teacher, watches China Syndrome, similar to Sunheart's experience with IBM. Parks at Trailside, goes down, see concert by Dina Fanai for the first time, at Starbucks. Meet Westchester Symphony Orchestra conductor Arthur Abile. Dina and Sunheart go out with Matt, whose father just died. Sunheart gives him a copy of his book, From the Temple Within.
November 3rd, 2000 Meet with Jenny, first time at her new office on 5th Ave. Then teaches at SVA 12 to 3. Then runs to Staten Island to see the new exhibit on the Lenape. Then runs back to have dinner with Durga at Thai restaurant.
November 5th, 2000 Sunheart hired for professional recording session as lead guitarist.
November 6th, 2000 Sunheart gives speech to Monday Night club, then teaches at college.
November 7th, 2000 Sunheart does recording session in recording studio with Kate Sheehy from 11 to 4 improvising both electric and classical guitar tracks, then goes to New York City to attend the American Indian College Fund gala at Pierre Hotel, and also watch the Presidential election with the brothers. Sunheart hears of the sudden change in Florida votes while walking to the subway, about 1 AM, suspects something is wrong, and does a ritual on the deserted streets of Manhattan praying that the votes not go unchallenged, prays that Al Gore not resign yet. (Yes, you can blame Sunheart for that mess if you like. Al Gore changed his mind soon afterward and took back his resignation.
November 8th, 2000 Dr.Airy Dixon guest speaker at Native American class, speaking on the Siouian culture, specifically the Tutelo. Both are very tired!
November 21st, 2000 Sunheart meets again with Misel Joe, spiritual teacher and chief of the Conne River Micmac Band.
November 9th, 2000 Sunheart writes "The Doll in the Blue Bonnet" at the request of Walter Bebe, founder of the Open Center, who needed a story about giving for a Christmas speech.
December 10th, 2000 Sunheart performs mideval Christmas carols for 3 hours in Revolutionary War period costume at the George Washington Headquarters Hasbrouke House. Many news photographers there, several reporters get interviews. Everyone comments on how wonderful his voice sounds that day. (It can apparently be heard from far away) Tom Hughes, director of the park says "You've been holding back on us all this time." Sunheart replies, "I keep working at it and getting better!" The room he performs in (with guitar!) is at about 40 degrees because it is a cold day and the year is 1782 as far as they are concerned.
December 16th, 2000, Sunheart at Mohonk House conducts an honoring ceremony for a great peacemaker of the white people, Joy Anne Savino, a veteran county mediator who has shown great bravery in the field of non-violent intervention. It is a great ceremony. Sunheart gives an oration on Algonquin non-violence. A black woman in the circle says nothing, but Sunheart smudges her and says, "Do-na-da!" She answers back in Cherokee, looking very surprised. They have a talking feather circle. One of the assistants is a beautiful Kogi from Columbia. One of the attendees is veteran mediator and TV producer Dina Crane. She later contacts Sunheart about his dramatic speech on Algonquin views on non-violence and its history, and offers to work with him to make a TV series for the History Channel. (This is still in progress). Sunheart and Joy Ann and others have lunch together, Sunheart answering many questions. Then he must change clothes quickly and drive to Newburgh in time for a repeat performance.
From 3 to 6 PM Sunheart performs at George Washington Headquarters in Newburgh yet again, also cold and rainy, but well attended.
December 17th, 2000 Attends sweat lodge with Grandfather Turtle. A man is there talking about (Sunheart) and having read his "amazing book" He turns to Sunheart who has been sitting there quietly, and says, "Have you read that book?" Sunheart says, "Hi Alex, I'm Sunheart!" Sunheart knows it is Alex Patterson author of Rock Art Symbols. They have communicated by email many times, but have never met. (Doctor Livingston I presume!) Alex tells Sunheart he knew Barry Fell and he was a good man, and even helped him in his research. Sunheart gives his sister the new Micmac Words book. He is supposed to take Archie Cheechoo to NYC to do a house concert together, and they do a complete rehearsal with people listening in, but both of them become very ill the next day, and have to cancel. Very strange weather, floods, hurricanes. Sunheart can hear the boulders rolling down the river outside his "cave." The water level is the highest in decades, but the bank holds firm.
December 18th, 2000 Sunheart begins a round the clock blitz to complete the CD "Long Lost Feeling" at Diversity Studios in Poughkeepsie in time for Christmas. Most dubbings done. At one point Jon and SH stay up almost 24 hours. Brahm Stuart comes in and plays fiddle.
December 25th, 2000 Sunheart delivers several CDs as Christmas presents around NY then sees the first screening of Thirteen Days with Durga in midtown Manhattan. (The only place it is being shown outside of LA) Most theaters are sold out for hours in advance. They but tickets at 42nd and wait 90 minutes, and then sit in the front row, but for Sunheart, this is a movie that helps him understand certain key events in his childhood, like the "disappearance" of his father for a week in 1962. The movie is over about 1 AM.
December 26th, 2000 Sunheart goes to meet Little Eagle's plane at BWI in Baltimore the next morning (no sleep) Right as he is driving into the airport, he sees what looks like his father's car, his father's head, his father's hat, and a young passenger going the other way. He turns and follows. Its not them! Later Sunheart gives CDs and Native New Yorker books as presents, among other lavish gifts. Little Eagle also gets a draft of upcoming second book on baseball, Touching All the Bases. LE gives SH a "tribal" map of baseball fans and where they live in North America, very well done. Linsey gives SH a wonderful "eagle" warmup jacket from northern Canada, in thanks for SH giving her his denim jacket to wear (and keep) at the Burnt Church powwow. LE and SH try to play baseball in the snow. They get cold!
December 31st, 2000 The technical end of the Millennium for mathematics nerds, theorists and historians. LE and SH go to the annual Greenbelt community party. LE and SH have a freehand U.S. mapmaking contest on the chalkboard. LE wins. For news of the next millennium, please see separate section.
January 2nd, 2001 Drop Little Eagle off at airport. Little Eagle flies home.
January 4th, 2001 Sunheart spends day in research at the Trailside Lenape Museum and Research Center in Katonah.
January 10th, 2001 All day creative session with Dina Crane for "The Way of the Heron" TV series on Algonquin peacemaking traditions.
January 12th, 2001 Sunheart sits on all-day panel for NYSTCE. This 40 member blue ribbon panel made up of educators and administrators from every university in the state, gather to reconstruct the state's social studies cirriculum, which affects approximately 10 million students. New York Dept. of Education is redesigning the entire education system (one of Hillary Clinton's initiatives) from the ground up, starting with teacher education. Their purpose is to create an education system which is more sensitive to human rights in the way history is taught, with particular sensitivity to Native American history, which had been woefully inadequate from the Algonquin perspective. Sunheart turns out to be the only one of the panel prepared to initiate these issues, although two others on the panel have research backgrounds in this area. Those men tend to agree with Sunheart. A large portion of the questions the directors have are therefore directed at Sunheart, and he is prepared with facts and figures memorized, and passionately speaks in favor of major changes in policy. Of his many initiatives, twelve sweeping changes are adopted within the space of a few hours, most of which are hotly debated pro and con.

The historic meeting is held in secrecy, to the point that even notes are not to be removed from the room. However, one humorous exchange of dialogue that can be repeated is; (Panel leader) "So American history will be divided up into three parts, to 1815, and then to 1900, and then to today. Does everyone feel that is equitable?" (Sunheart) "You know what I'm going to say; Let's see, 10,000 BC to 1815 AD, then 1815 to 1900. That doesn't sound equitable to me." (laughter, applause)

Sunheart also complains there are no texts available on New York State's native history other than the well-documented Iroquois. Four administrators emphatically agree this is a major problem. Later, Sunheart will pick up the pace on Native New Yorkers, molding it into a book that is both textbook and narrative. After the conference, he calls Joe Bruchac, who lives in the area, and offers to visit him. Joe Bruchac is on his way to a book conference and can't visit, but is happy about the many changes.

January 15th, 2001 Meeting with Dina Crane on "The Way of the Heron."
January 17th, 2001 First day of classes. Sunheart teaching lighter schedule than usual, two Philosophy courses. He mails in work in progress of Native New Yorkers.
January 23rd, 2001 Sunheart mails Native New Yorkers to Chief of the Munsee, Mark Peters, and to agent.
January 28th, 2001 Sunheart attends annual Super Bowl conference with Professor Eric Huberman, aka Rick Jarow author of In Search of the Sacred. Sunheart meets someone in film who can help Way of the Heron. Sunheart meets new Huberman baby.
February 2nd, 2001 Sunheart views Verrazano letter to King Charles at the J.P. Morgan library.
February 10th, 2001 Sunheart picks up new proof copy of No Word For Time.
February 11th, 2001 Sunheart attends Mets baseball clinic.
February 12th, 2001 Meeting with Dave Goodwin, website designer, digital photos taken.
February 15th, 2001 Sunheart meets Kate H. in Albany to discuss the new digital Algonquin Mapping project.
February 19th, 2001 Sunheart interviewed live on Circle of Red Nations radio show on WBAI in New York, with Roberto (Mukaro) Borrero. CD "Lenape Farewell" played on the air. Discusses new book Native New Yorkers, shows map to Roberto and other native "retro-activists."
February 20th, 2001 Sunheart again at J.P. Morgan library, studies "America," a book published in 1666.
February 24th, 2001 Sunheart finishes new phase of Algonquin mapping project. Sunheart continues work as editor for APT's new website, phone meetings with Picucci.
February 25th, 2001, colored blow-up map of coastal Algonquin villages finished.
March 3rd, 2001 Sunheart attends Mahler-Bach symposium at J.P. Morgan library. Hears the Mahler piano quartet for the first time, much like Rachmaninov, (who wasn't famous yet). Meets Morgan Library Curator, John Turner, they discuss the score to Mahler's 5th. Turner says "Everyone wants to get their HANDS on that score... and it's my job to prevent them!"
March 7th, 2001 Meeting with Dina Crane on "Way of the Heron." Dina loans Sunheart a tape recorder for use in Canada interviewing Munsees.
March 9th, 2001 Sunheart gives his "Sesame Street Anthropology" lecture in the conference center in downtown Albany to a full house. It is a big success. He uses a series of transparencies on overhead projector to show the seven "layers" of New York's Algonquin history, linking language and culture to certain dates. He reveals and discusses the new spectrum-based language map, which a Mohican visitor cuts down off the wall with his hunting knife and carries off to his home out west. (He also pays money for it).The lecture also revealed the evolution of letter-sounds in Algonquin hsitory, which was new to most ears. The previous speaker had shown a text written by Apamut on the screen. Sunheart noted that there were no Rs or Ls in the entire text, and used this as a basis for his "Sesame Street" anthropology lecture, explaining that Munsee was the first Algonquin language to have a letter L, and that Wappingers (or Canarsie) was the first to have an R. The audience had many questions but received the three new developments enthusiastically, including Elizabeth C. from Harvard, who works with the great Dean Snow, and who later asks for a copy of the talk.
Sunheart's selection of books and maps sells out at the book table as soon as his talk is over.
March 13th, 2001 New edition of No Word For Time arrives, just in time for him to take with him to Ontario, as gifts for the Munsee people.
March 14th, 2001, Sunheart has an unusual rendezvous with Chief Mark Peters of the Munsee in section 365 at the Sabres hockey game in Buffalo, New York. The Sabres won. Sunheart follows the Peters family the four hours west to the Munsee reserve after the game.
March 16th, 2001 Sunheart meets with Chief Layton Hopkins, also Diane Snake, and then Beulah Timothy, and begins to study the Munsee language. Sunheart taken (in the snow) to the site of Tecumseh's death and burial by Floyd Case, whose grandfather was given the details of the death and burial by an eye witness.
March 17th, 2001 Meeting with Delaware healer Mike Hopkins. Idea for a workshop for Munsee youth develops.
March 18th, 2001 Sunheart and Floyd Case meet with renowned Munsee historian Roberta Miskokomon.
March 24th, 2001 Durga's 50th birthday in New York City. Sunheart meets John Falcon, John reunites with Amy; they were friends in High School--Sunheart takes picture.
March 25th 2001, baseball practice.
March 26th, 2001 Sunheart finishes "BS Detector," Guide to Abusive Rhetoric, prints up copies. Sunheart writes "wedding song" Love You Forever, based on tune he wrote 15 years earlier.
March 27th, 2001 writes "pink food" lyrics.
March 28th, 2001 Sunheart receives a call from Phoebe Legere, "punk/grrl" rock star and outstanding composer. They discuss Algonquin history. She is Micmac and Wampanoag like himself, and very well versed in the language and history. She tells him of new opera "The Queen of New England."
March 30th, 2001, Sunheart performs first "virtuoso" guitar gig in New York City in three years. He plays at a fund raiser at presigious Chelsea Piers, the only yacht club in Manhattan.
March 31st, 2001, Sunheart attends gala opening of Karpeles Manuscript Museum in Newburgh; many of the most important manuscripts of the millennium are on display, including an "Indian Treaty" signed by Taft.
April 3rd, 2001, Sunheart does interview with Mike Bung of KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa. Dina Crane goes to Cuba.
April 13th, 2001, Sunheart goes to Maryland for Easter. Rendezvous with Chief Yona Gadoga's half sister for dinner for her birthday on the Susquehanna. Signs No Word For Time for her over dinner. He learns several historical facts about the Susquehanna and about Herman Melville. Sunheart reunion with his Micmac aunt Shirley in DC later that night.
April 14th, 2001, Sunheart tours Annapolis with Micmac cousins, aunt, and mother and father. Everyone splits up and meets later in the square as if by magic without a prearranged time. He and cousin Beth go to Naval Academy and view both versions of the statue of Delaware Chief Tamanend, which has been misnamed Tecumseh for years.
April 17th, 2001 Sunheart conducts "The Way of the Heron," Algonquin Mediation Techniques workshop for 70 professional mediators from all over the Hudson Valley Region, under the auspices of Ulster-Sullivan Mediation. It is very well recieved, and he is asked to present a series of workshops later in the fall. Again books sell out. He sings four Native-style songs that relate to conflict resolution, to a long ovation of applause.
April 19th, 2001 Sunheart has dinner meeting with Janet from another Planet on the new book.
April 20th, 2001, Sunheart performs two different gigs, back to back at the Pequot Museum in Mashantucket, CT. for a series of fundraisers. The first is a pop vocal concert of original and traditional "Native-style" pop songs (if you don't know what this means, hear Nishi Donovan's tapes) at the reception, which is very well recieved. Then he goes to the banquet hall and gives a two hour banquet performance of virtuoso classical guitar arrangements of symphonic music (plus Spanish, etc) The dinner is accidentally delayed, and Sunheart saves the day by captivating the benefactors of the museum with what may be the greatest performance of his career,with the help of a state of the art sound system, which makes the guitar truly sound like an orchestra. The diners stop to applaud most of the pieces, even while eating, which is unexpected.

Sunheart also has meeting with director of research of the Pequot museum between gigs, and presents her with the manuscript for Native New Yorkers for critique, plus the new map, a full day to say the least.

April 23rd, 2001, 10 AM radio interview with WABC's Dierdre Bryant, but on WRNJ. She is very skilled as an interviewer and very quick and professional.
Later brainstorming session with Janet Jappen.
April 27th, 2001 Sunheart participates in open forum at Boughton Place.
May 1st, 2001 Sunheart radio interview on KTOX in Needles, California, Lofland area. Cherokee host agrees to play selections from his CD on air, then forgets it, leaves it at home. Sunheart talks about "Hurricane Halley" adventure and past lives. (See Native Wisdom).
TheInstituteOrg website goes on line. Sunheart involved with cover design issues with COB.
May 2nd, 2001, Sunheart attends all day rehearsal at Roulette of The Queen of New England, a new opera based on King Philips War. Meets Phoebe Legere and David Eggar for the first time. Sunheart reads through script lines, cold, and impressed director/author with his expressive interpretation and ad libs. Legere comments on his "great acting talent." They then go through the songs and again Legere is delighted. She provides an electric guitar, and they play through the numbers. As it turns out, there is a major part for a pair of mocassins, and a song about them. Sunheart pulls from his bag a beautiful pair of Micmac mocassins, made for him by a Micmac woman in Canada. They go through the death scene, with Sunheart as Wamsutta, holding the mocassins "made for him by Queen Witamu."
May 4th, 2001, Sunheart picks up new batch of Lenape Farewell CDs. Finishes phase two of Sunheart website.
Council Oak Books holds national sales meeting in New York at the Algonquin Hotel to discuss marketing plans for his forthcoming book Native New Yorkers, the Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York, (and other projects.) He offers to attend and give lecture, but it is not worked out.