Great God Pan

Hopping as he has from his cabin in the upper American Midwest to the warmer climes of Wizard's Roost, California, our very own New Energy mystic Kaisle Feeled is kind of back to stay on the West Coast. For the last year or so the singer known as "Little Wings" has cloistered himself in a Swedish style log cabin that was over 100 years old at the time of the American Revolution. Kaisle, who might be part Swedish, spent the time there making drawings for his exhibit last August at a Los Angeles gallery.

The cabin is believed to have been part of the New Sweden colony and was most likely built between 1638 and 1655, but the exact year is not known. After sheltering some of our country’s earliest settlers, and having been occupied for the better part of three centuries, the cabin stood vacant and neglected until last year when Feeled began cleaning out the sturdy structure and making it homey again.

"I'm kind of a nester," he admits, gesturing to a maze of strings crisscrossing his new teepee on a bluff near Topanga Canyon, each weighted down with new watercolors drying in the warm California breeze. Upon leaving New Sweden, Feeled handed the keys of his abode over to The Friends of the Swedish Cabin, a volunteer, non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to preserve the Swedish Cabin so that future generations can be afforded a glimpse back into the past, and that this glimpse will, in turn, foster an appreciation for traditional Swedish culture and values.

"I liked the idea that it was called New Sweden," Feeled admits, "But I feel California is newer, at least for people of Scandinavian descent."