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This was actually a very difficult profile to write. Not because Michael isn’t interesting. He is. Not because there aren’t important things to disclose. There are. It’s because Michael is a man of few words. He’d rather ask the questions, than answer them. Michael listens. Analyzes. Considers. Then talks. It’s important to Michael to create bridges ... between problems and solutions, between initial plans and finished projects, between people and cultures. “Part of my role as Chief is to maintain the strong working relationship I already have with the Regional District of Nanaimo. Things like water quality, fisheries and the septic system are all intertwined in our region. We have to work together in the best interest of Native and non-Native communities,” he said. I thought I would come away from the interview with a notebook filled with rich quotes and anecdotes about Michael’s community, his culture and his new position as Chief. I didn’t. Instead, I came away with even more questions and a notebook of interview notes that barely scratched the surface of this many-faceted personality and his role in his community and ours.
One Man • Many Hats Chief (Gordon) Michael Recalma by Linda Tenney
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n evening in August 2014 marked a new phase in Michael Recalma’s life. On that night he became Chief of the Qualicum First Nation, elected by members of his Band who live on the Reserve by the Big Qualicum River in Qualicum Bay. I interviewed Michael in the Board room of the Band office just about month into his new position. “It was a very close election,” says Michael. “I didn’t campaign. We have a small band of less than 140 members and we all know each other quite well. It was just my time.” For the next two years, Michael will oversee numerous portfolios involving the Band’s infrastructure, healthcare, education, financial interests and representation in the community beyond the Band’s border. In a non-Native world, it’s not unlike being the CEO of a huge corporation. “I’ve only just started,” Michael says. “And I’m not alone in this position. I have two councillors, Sarah Swanson and Arnold Recalma, and integral community members to help guide the future.” 4
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Over the years, I’ve seen Michael wear many hats. Spiritual leader, Band representative, councillor, Board member, Fisheries employee, magician and yes, even the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and a Caribbean pirate, and now Chief. That’s Michael Recalma. Whatever hat he’s wearing - it sits squarely on the head of a man who reaches out with the strength of a leader and the heart of a compassionate human being. In my own experience, Michael graciously arrived at The Gardens in Qualicum Beach a little over three years ago to ‘smudge’ my husband’s newly assigned room. He allowed us to assist in an ancient Native ceremony that cleansed the room of a lingering energy that masked it in suffering and sadness. After the ceremony, Michael left us to sit quietly in a room that was much more peaceful and welcoming. It helped my husband settle into his new home. Michael’s many hats are worn with a deeper awareness of the world and its people than I can ever hope to imagine. I look forward to knowing him better. ~
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Aries (March 21-April 19) This is the only time all year when the Sun is opposite your sign, which means you will need more sleep. Why? The Sun is your source of energy and if it is opposite your sign, it is as far away from you as it gets all year. Respect this need for more rest. In addition, this oppositional Sun will give you a better understanding about your relationships with partners and close friends. It’s true that conflict is more likely, but even conflict can help you examine your way of communicating. Work with others. This is not a time to go it alone. Taurus (April 20-May 20) This month you want to get better organized. Make lists and think how to de-clutter your home and tidy where you work. Since you’re on this kick, get the right tools to do a great job! Buy labels, shelving, file folders, cleaning equipment, paint or whatever you need to make the most of this onemonth influence. “Make hay while the Sun shines!” Naturally, this efficiency kick makes you want to boost your health as well. Plan to eat better, lose weight, get more exercise – the whole nine yards! Gemini (May 21-June 20) Lucky you! Fun and pleasure are on the menu because the Sun will be in your Fifth House. You have lots of energy to get out and have fun. Do what pleases you whether it’s sports, movies, parties, the arts, musical performances or expressing your creative talents. The bottom line is you want to enjoy yourself! Explore playful activities with children. Take a vacation. Flirtations, love affairs, romance and fun dating will increase. Life is easier if your pleasures are affordable. “I’ll take two!”
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are shifting. When the whole picture finally emerges, it may feel like an epiphany, but it was a long time in the making. Likewise, the image of the lone genius, such as Auguste Rodin’s statue “The Thinker,” does not tell the whole story. Individuals may become the spokesperson for the collective, but we are together creating the network with every conversation, meeting, chance encounter, hug, message, question, smile, creative work or routine action.
ON BUBBLES OF THOUGHT AND PERCOLATING IDEAS... by Joanne Sales
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I Need a Good Idea! Quick!
’m a blueberry farmer with a late season crop. The usual deadline for this article came and went, and I had no ideas! Where was I going to get an idea to write about when I had no time to think? Where do good ideas come from? Fortunately, Steven Johnson wondered the same things, and wrote “Where Good Ideas Come From.” I went online and watched a video and Ted Talk by him. His ideas stimulated the network of my mind, and according to his research, that’s exactly what was supposed to happen. Our connections with one another stimulate us to fill in the blanks. We help each other come up with good ideas. Johnson says that before the Age of Enlightenment, the only safe liquid safe to drink was alcohol. So people might have beer for breakfast, wine for lunch, and whiskey for dinner. Everyone was drunk - all the time! But one century, things changed. The coffee bean made its way to Europe. People traded the daily experience of being drunk for the daily experience of being jittery and wired. The change was phenomenal. With the popularity of coffee came the rise of coffee houses and the French salons. People went with their newly awakened, high-wired minds and…networked. Talked and argued, discussed and shared. The stimulated minds and the networking 1 0
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of society brought about the Age of Enlightenment. We tend to think of good ideas arising like single bubbles from the murky depths of someone’s mysterious mind. But as scientists learn more about how the brain actually works, we see a different picture. Ideas don’t arise out of a subterranean vacuum, but rather out of a network. New ideas arise as networks of neuron connectors link up in new ways, which happens over time, stimulated by connection with other people, ideas and experiences. So if we’re looking for creative new ideas, we can feed that networking process. We’re not helpless recipients of good ideas – we are the creators of them! This new perspective means that we may need to expand two traditional concepts – the Eureka moment and the lone genius. Darwin said he had a Eureka moment – a single epiphany. But a researcher explored his copious diaries and found that Darwin’s diaries before his eureka moment read like a textbook of his later theories. For years, Darwin was networking in his brain all of his new ideas, and then the moment came when the network coalesced, and he recognized what he was thinking! He finally saw the whole puzzle that had been taking shape for years. That happens for us as well. Change happens over time. We might not even know that our patterns and perceptions
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A fine example of the ideas percolating apparently alone in a million minds culminated in a collective action that took place on September 21, 2014 in New York City. The People’s Climate March drew together 310,000 people to the streets of New York. That is an impressive network. The streets were literally packed. One hundred people marched in Parksville, and others in Nanaimo and cities across the world. While leaders hesitate, the people are clear - let’s leave this incredible planet the way we found it. (Sadly, Canada’s current government chose not to attend the U.N. Climate Summit!) So what should we do to find good ideas? As I experienced when I was too busy, we can’t be come up with good ideas if we don’t have time to think. We need to protect our personal creative spaces, quiet introspective time, and unplugged personal time. Bill Gates and others take two one-week “Think Weeks” each year, isolated from interactions with everyone – including family. During Think Weeks, Gates reads extensively. Reading and any kind of immersion into new ideas and experiences create new neural pathways. And time alone. Even major corporations are creating nap rooms, recognizing that for best productivity, we often just need to zone out. A walk, a breather, and a power nap actually work. Letting go – and even giving up – often happens just before a solution arises. CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
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with nature. It’s not just nature. Maybe gardens allow people to feel connected to nature because our interaction is reflected back to us.” If there’s a heartbeat at Hollyhock, and I would venture to say there most certainly is, it comes from the garden. “It’s amazing,” Mackay says. “The metaphor for human existence. Things here have a time to bloom and a time to die.”
I wasn’t here to take any of the courses or workshops and I didn’t take any the first time I came to Hollyhock in 2010, not that I don’t want to make the world a better place. Experiencing the personal and professional growth that the programming here would provide is certainly moving up on my bucket list but this visit was all about escape - decompression from the constant busy-ness of life. I was here to eat good food, to reset and regroup. I was here to experience self-acceptance in an environment without expectation, stress or judgment from those around me, or internally from myself. Everyone at Hollyhock is acutely aware that life is a journey of personal growth and when the learning that takes place within an individual is extended and carried out into the larger world, it spreads. Lesley Hoffman is the Program Director at Hollyhock. She says, “We help make the world a better place by helping to make themselves better.”
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Mackay is putting the garden to rest now, laying straw and planning necessary moves to keep the flowers, herbs and vegetables thriving. It will rest until Hollyhock reopens in the early Spring.
I did become a better person in the forty-eight hours I spent at Hollyhock. How so exactly, is hard to describe.
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and they are entirely vegetarian, something that doesn’t phase some people, excites and relieves others and scares others still. “Most of the people who come are omnivores,” Carpenter says. “But being vegetarian leaves a smaller footprint on the earth and I appreciate working in a low-risk kitchen.” Many of the recipes created in the Hollyhock kitchen are shared through two published cookbooks: Hollyhock Cooks (2003) and Hollyhock, Garden to Table (2013). There is also programming based on cooking in the “Hollyhock Style”. The beach. I became a better person on the inside, and on the outside, by spending time on the glorious shores at Hollyhock, perched on the mouth of Desolation Sound, looking east onto Twin Islands and the Straight of Georgia. There are elaborate beach forts left for others to inhabit and somehow they took me
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and Horne Lake area residents but, of course, anyone can come.
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s you are no doubt aware, local government elections occur again this Fall on November 15. It has been a pleasure and honour to serve you on the Board of the RDN and on the strength of these positive experiences; I have decided to stand for election as your Area H Director for the coming 4-year term. Arriving at this decision was not easy, as I am sure a few of you have guessed. To those of you who have sent me a gentle push and kind words, many thanks.....I think. At the end of the day, what convinced me to run was that I have enjoyed my positive interactions with all of you and the RDN Staff. I sense I have accomplished many things and I am positioned to do more. Directly below, find a summary of my thoughts on where I think we should be going. Of course all of this will be amended and shaped by what you want. So this list will change to reflect your concerns. I always appreciate your comments. I will hold two community meetings in early November to discuss any of your concerns: • November 7, 7pm – Ellen Lyon’s Place, 1055 Spider Lake Rd. Note that this meeting is designed for Spider Lake
• November 8, 10am, at the Lighthouse Community Centre in Qualicum Bay. I am happy to meet with you individually at the Bean Counter outside of these dates. STRATEGIC PLANNING I like to think that my most significant outcome has been to get agreement that we will do annual Strategic Planning at the RDN. Strategic Planning happens when the Elected Board provides the RDN Staff broad direction on what they should be doing. With this, the Board has an opportunity to set the direction of the RDN. Previously, this occurred once every three years (right after the election). There will be a strategic planning session early in the new year and, assuming I am elected, you can expect that I will push for: A plan that looks at Rural Infrastructure Requirements and develops a strategy to access Federal and Provincial Infrastructure Programs to achieve those needs. The only way Rural Areas can afford to make significant change is thru federal and provincial grant programs. The coming Federal election is an opportunity for us. I will also continue my efforts to have the RDN to work with our Improvement Districts
(IDs) to advocate for grants on their behalf. For Area H, I will look for funding for programs we are pursuing jointly with MoTI which include a safe roadside trail (biking and walking) from Deep Bay to Shaw Hill. We are also exploring a Rest Stop at the intersection of Horne Lake Rd and Hwy 19. I will ensure that the Bowser sewage servicing study includes planning to leverage off Federal and Provincial infrastructure grants. In a very good example of how cooperation across jurisdictions can make a huge difference, the Ministry of Transportation, RDN staff, MLA Fraser and I have been engaged in frank and enjoyable mutual discussions. The credit for this belongs to MoTI. As a result, Area H and MoTI can pursue items of mutual interest. This is an example of how working together can significantly benefit all of us. Our voices are being heard and count. The lesson here is that it is in our strategic interest to develop cooperative partnerships. RDN Parks & Recreation have worked hard and effectively on building parks and trails. They have been very successful and should be commended for their efforts. At the same time, there is a great deal of free trail development that happens from volunteer work. I continued ...
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think there is opportunity for RDN Parks & Recreation to help enable the volunteer efforts. When I was first elected, it was clear that the RDN brand was not well-respected in Area H. Indeed, a recent survey suggested that only 56% of Area H is satisfied with the RDN Board and Administration. This is the lowest result in the RDN. Early in my term, I set out to try to improve this and poked specifically at two changes; video streaming of meetings and holding Board Meetings in the rural areas. I could not get traction for this. I will try again, and I appreciate current staff efforts supporting this. A bright and shining light in my tenure has been the positive and collegial relationship I have enjoyed with the Qualicum First Nation community. I will ensure that this continues as it is in our mutual best interest that it does.
You can reasonably expect that we will embark on a review of the Area H, Official Community Plan in the next term. It is now 10 years old and conventional wisdom has it that it should be reviewed every 4-5 years. A review at about the 12-year point would seem prudent. Should any development proposals come forward, I will remain in favour of full and informed community discussions. TAXES If you have been reading this forum, you know that I am very much against tax increases and that I have had a certain success. I will continue to try to hold the line on taxes. EMERGENCY/DISASTER RESPONSE I will review RDN plans to respond to a significant emergency in Area H and will work at this.
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT I recently held a Rural Economic Development symposium that was supported by MLA Fraser and Vancouver Island University. This was an eye-opener for me. It made me realize that we are doing this wrong for the Rural Areas in the RDN. I think we need more focus on rural economic development. For example, if we looked at the MoTI/RDN proposed rest stop on the highway, coupled with greater marketing of our trails and other amenities in Area H, and then examined the potential for economic spin-offs, we would perhaps see these efforts in a different light and with a greater importance. Without economic development, our population will continue to age, we will continue to close the schools and shops and eventually we will lose the things that make this a wonderful place to live.
COMMUNITY DIALOGUE When elected, I promised myself that I be as transparent as possible. I think that I have achieved that goal. What is working seems to be email and my column in EyesOnBC Magazine each month, so this will continue. While this dialogue may be useful to you, it is also invaluable to me as it gives me access to what you are thinking. I look forward to your comments on any or all of this. ~
I will continue to support our key economic drivers: • Local Business • Vancouver Island University • Aquaculture • Agriculture • Nile Creek Enhancement Society • Recreational fishing • Forestry • Tourism • Local Community Clubs and Organizations, etc I will continue to advocate that the Province consult with the RDN on all things and in particular, the seaweed harvest. I will continue to explore a solution to our transit service that looks at the option of extending the Comox Valley RD, (CVRD) Buckley Bay bus into our area. This would mean that we would lose our Tuesday service to Nanaimo but gain daily service to Courtenay. Any final outcome will involve community consultation. I have been trying, for 18 months, to get a meeting with the Vancouver Island Agricultural Land Commission authority...I will continue to try! I will continue to work with the industry, Canada Coast Guard, the Harbour Authority and VIU to have the derelict vessels removed. •
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LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE (LCC) - 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. FMI Hall rentals Call Sheena McCorquodale: (250) 757-9991. FMI on Events at the LCC visit www.communityhall.ca. LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE PANCAKE BREAKFAST & FLEA MARKET – Sunday Oct 12 - 8am-Noon, PANCAKE BREAKFAST - $5: 1 pancake, 1 egg, bacon or sausage, coffee, tea or juice or $7: 2 pancakes, 2 eggs, bacon or sausage, coffee, tea or juice. Enjoy live music, tuck into breakfast, browse the vendor tables for a treasure. Volunteers from Bowser Elementary School’s PAC will serve up breakfast this month.
FLOOR CURLING - Come play with us. Enjoy a perfect sport. A mixed group activity for all ages. Easy to play. Games indoor on a gym floor, curling rocks supplied. Plus, great friendship and extra fun events. Every Monday and Friday 1-3 PM. Join monthly or for the season, September to June. Location: Lions Rec Hall in lovely Qualicum Bay. Worth the extra mile. FMI call Fred or Lorraine (250) 752-0216. Better when shared. Bring a friend. LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS GROUP - Needs your help! FMI Call: Val Weismiller: (250) 7579667.
LIGHTHOUSE SENIORS #152 – Next meeting October 6. Come and enjoy an afternoon of socializing with your neighbours. Bring a sandwich and get a choice of two soups plus coffee or tea. FMI please call Joan at 250-757-9536.
RDN RECREATION PROGRAMS - View recreation programs online at www.rdn. bc.ca/recreation. FMI call Chrissie at (250) 757-8118, email at cfinnie@rdn.bc.ca or call Oceanside Place at (250) 248-3252. Preregister for all programs to avoid program cancellation.
TAOIST™ TAI CHI Every Monday 9:30-noon Susan Finlayson 250-757-2097
LIGHTHOUSE RECREATION: FMI Call (250) 757-8366 or email shipshore@shaw.ca.
LIGHTHOUSE SPINNERS – Bring your Spinning Wheels and fibre and meet the Lighthouse Spinners at the LCC. Tuesdays at 10:30am. FMI Call 778-424-1001. CARPET BOWLING – 12:45 to 3:00pm at the LCC. FMI Call Layne (250) 757-8217.
BADMINTON, PICKLEBALL, MINI-TENNIS. Mondays starting October 6th. 7-9:30 pm. Drop-in Fee $4. Ages 15-80. Beginners welcome. Lighthouse Community Centre – 240 Lions Way in Qualicum Bay. Sponsored by the Lighthouse Recreation Commission. FMI 250-757-8307 or steelehunt@shaw.ca.
BOOK SALE! The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) invites you to ‘browse and buy’ at their fabulous threeday fund-raising event: October 24 & 25, BRIDGE – Nordin Room 1:00 to 4:00pm 9-6pm, and October 26, 9:30-4:30pm. Friday afternoons at the LCC. FMI Call: You’ll find the book sale at The Pavilion, Sheila Steele (250) 757-8307. Morningstar Golf Course, 525 Lowrys Road in Qualicum Beach. Breakfast, lunch and LIONS REC HALL – 280 Lions Way, Qualicum dinner can be enjoyed on-site at the Club’s Bay. FMI on Hall rentals Call Bert Carter: full-service restaurant. (250) 240-4538. THE BOW HORN BAY COMMUNITY CLUB is looking for donations of books in good QUALICUM BAY LIONS CLUB – Meet at condition (no encyclopedias) for our first 7pm, every second and fourth Tuesday in fund raising GIANT book sale to be held on the Lions Den. Nov 9th at the Lighthouse Community Hall from 8:00am-12:00pm. For drop off call Pat LIGHTHOUSE COUNTRY SCRAPBOOKERS at 250-757-8806. – Meet 3rd Saturday monthly at the Lions’ Rec Hall, 9:30am- 4:30pm. $10. Door prizes. Events continued on page 23 FMI Call Jorgie 250-757-8358 or Shirley (250) 757-8384. AA LIGHTKEEPERS - Fridays at 7:00pm at the LCC.
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fourth wall and encourages the audience to tap directly into the progression from skepticism to unrestrained terror.
hursday night, October 16th ECHO Players is ready to turn the lights up on its production of “The Woman in Black,” a classic ghost play, which opened in London’s West End theater district in 1989 and is still playing there.
Stephen Mallatratt’s brilliant adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel tells the story of lawyer (Garry Davey, Appearing by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.) obsessed with a It’s not easy doing a scary, chilling curse that he believes has been cast ghost play. It’s nearly as tough as doing over him and his family by the spectre a Christmas panto, acknowledges the of a “Woman in Black”. He engages an show’s director, Sue Murguly. Her name may be familiar to ECHO Players actor (Mort Paul also Appearing by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity regulars as the co-director of the Association) to help him tell his story company’s last year’s sold out hit show, and exorcise the fear in his soul. It Cinderella. What’s the trick of making a show scary? “Part of it is not revealing begins innocently enough, but as they reach further into his darkest memories, too much too soon. We can imagine they find themselves caught up in a much worse things than a theater can show you onstage. We will be relying on world of eerie marshes and moaning winds. The border between make the audience to scare themselves.” believe and reality begin to blur and give One of the nice things about The way to a tumble of events and secrets Woman in Black is that it’s traditional more terrifying and sinister than any theatre where every element of theatre nightmare. — whether it be lighting, sound, staging The play’s setting is a theater that or acting — all play a part. Everything is important. The whole impression is to Kipps has rented. Beyond props, and let the audience’s mind start wondering. costumes, the sound effects and lights are a crucial a part of the storytelling What if? That’s the real clever bit as we are,” said Garry Davey, the actor about the whole ghost story. It lets the who portrays the older Kipps and five audience members put themselves in other characters. “It’s a ghost story the position of the actors. It breaks the •
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with scary moments of surprise,” Davey said. Sound designer of the show David Attley said. “What you’re trying to do is give the audience just enough information so that their imaginations will push them all the way into the story.” What sort of tricks does the crew employ? “It’s almost sleight-of-hand, really. A lot about lighting and catching things out of the corner of your eye,” lighting designer George Murguly adds. No one involved with the production wants any of the surprises given away. “I think the less you know about it going in, the better,” said Mort Paul, “It has some plot twists that it would be a shame to know ahead of time.” “There is a line that one of the actors has in the show,” Valerie Axford, the show’s producer said, “‘One must not ask how the magic is done.” “If you let yourself go with the story,” she said, “and really get into it, then you’ll get all the shocks and surprises and adrenaline.” And what sort of ride is it? “Eerie, shocking and totally entertaining.” “It’s pretty creepy, but in a good way. I know audiences will love it” ~ submitted ECHO Players The Woman in Black is presented at the Village Theatre, Qualicum Beach October 16th to November 2nd, 2014. Tickets are available at the Box Office; by phone 250.752.3522 or by email info@ echoplayers.ca For more information visit www.echoplayers.ca ~
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Canadian Federation of University Women PQ www.cfuwpq.ca PARENTS & TOTS PLAYGROUP. Fridays 10am11:30am. Fanny Bay Community Hall. Enjoy a morning of socializing, a snack, early literacy activities, songs, games, stories and parenting resources. A FREE program supported by the Comox Valley Family Services Association, Baynes Sound Lions and the Fanny Bay Community Association. FMI Evelyn Bally 250-335-9022. YOUTH GROUP. Fridays 6:30pm-7:30pm. Fanny Bay Community Hall. Children ages 4-6 in the studio with their parent. Children ages 7-12 in the gym, parents do not have to stay. Soccer, basketball, hockey, table tennis and whatever else crazy fun the children come up with. FREE program supported by the Fanny Bay Community Association, Evelyn Bally & Deb Webster.
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to mindfulness comes in. A personal wakefulness is necessary for us to have a collective awakening. If it was thousands of individuals putting down the whiskey and picking up a cup of coffee that brought about the Age of Enlightenment, it will requires millions of individuals networking and connecting on more profound, internal, external and inclusive levels that will bring about the “change of age” that our planetary survival depends on.
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We can’t force creativity, but we can create the environment that allows creativity to happen. Creativity benefits from being a little “crazy” by conventional societal standards. Something has to move a little out of the ordinary – even wrong - for things to come out with distinctive originality. Being a little “out of whack” can be a good thing. Sufi Sam, a wonderful, eccentric teacher of mine from the 60s, said, “Be calm, cool, collected and crazy.”
What shall we do to find good ideas? Feed our minds. Create new neural pathways. Read books. Seek out new experiences and challenges. Network with different people and ideas. Stay awake! And go to sleep. Take a breather. Remove ourselves from the roller coaster long enough to get a view from the sidelines. Dream.
Arlo Guthrie once said that writing a song was like fishing. He also complained that Bob Dylan caught all the big fish. That isn’t true, but it is true that you have to go fishing to catch a fish. To catch a good idea, you have to be alert with your fishing net open and ready, with pen in hand, and with a willingness to be slightly out of rhythm with the drunken world of the mass mind.
Good ideas need someone to be fishing on the side of the river to pull them to the light of day. So go fishing! Do it on purpose - like Bill Gates.
Apparently being awake rather than drunk is a good idea. Stimulants like coffee have their place. (My stimulant of choice for 20 years is home brewed teabased kombucha. Email me!)
Our problems are huge in these times, but the possibilities are also historically huge. As Johnson says at the end of his talks, “Chance favors the connected mind.” ~ Joanne Sales is a freelance writer, blueberry farmer living in rural Qualicum Beach, and Director of Vancouver Island’s Broombusters Invasive Plant Society. Questions about her articles should be directed to Joanne@glasswing.com. For information or questions regarding Broombusters Invasive Plant Society ... www.broombusters.org. ph: 250-7524816, email: info@broombusters.org
But besides caffeine, what stimulates the mind? Other minds. The Mind of God. The records, discoveries and stories of others – in person, text, song, creative works, examples, stories. Connection and inner recollection. The Internet is a major key to the current “change of ages,” but one can get lost on-line. That is where the call
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THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF QUESTERS – Meets the last Monday of the month in the Nordin Room of the Lighthouse Community Centre, 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Bay. FMI Call Chris (250) 7521419.
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inside the imagination of a child, where caves and caverns and crevices made of driftwood are portals to other worlds. I got the sense these forts were made by grown-ups though. The last time I was here, it was earlier in the year and Order of Canada Recipient and Honourary Cultural Ambassador for the Canadian and Quebec Governments, Margie Gillis, danced across the stones of this beach. I will never forget the sound of her breath exhaling in sync with the waves.
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UNION BAY COMMUNITY CLUB FALL DINNER - Sunday, October 19, 2014. Doors Open 5pm. Dinner at 5:30pm. Union Bay Community Hall. Tickets $13 each. For tickets, call Donna 250-335-2147 or Dave 250-335-2317.
MANY MEMBERS’ GARAGE SALE. Saturday October 25th, 8:30am to 1:00pm. Extra things happening! Qualicum Beach Seniors’ Centre. 703 Memorial Ave. Call Pat @ 250-752-3946
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