Saturday, we stopped at the Bridgetown library. You can pick up, for free, back issues of magazines. I found the New Scientist. It reminded me of my school days at Chiswick Grammar School for Boys.
In the evening, I shared a beer with John Wightman. We walked down to his neighbour’s dock on the Annapolis River. As we sipped, a river boat came up from Annapolis Royal’s direction and turned round at Jubilee Park.
It reminded me of Summer Institutes at COGS in the 1980s. We would rent a boat for a trip down the river towards Annapolis Royal. Always an enjoyable adventure through the rural landscape, between North Mountain and South Mountain.
This week, Heather and I met Rocky and Debbie Hebb for breakfast at Shakes on Main, in Lawrencetown, run by CRIA, only to discover the restaurant closes for good, Friday this week (29th). Given the Annapolis County Exhibition in August, it is unfortunate for the local economy that both the Wine Makers tavern and the only restaurant in the village are closed.
I can recall COGS operating forty-eight weeks per year (three 16-week semesters) and offering a Summer Institute. How things have changed!
From the Marginalian are Beatrix Potter’s little-known scientific discoveries
“Potter soon began conducting her own experiments with spores she germinated herself. She was particularly captivated by lichens, considered at the time ’the poor peasants of the plant world.“
Another example of ’enlichenment’.
Acknowledgements
John Wightman shares my memories of COGS and a good beer. Rocky and Debbie Hebb for our last breakfast at Shakes on Main with Heather, and myself. Edward has been away plein air painting on the South Shore. Hence any delay in the blog post.
Reference
The Marginalian, July 27, 2022.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Hello Bob
The feeling of Village Life is one which needs to be explored and reenvisioned by us all. Peter Champoux a Canadian author, in his Gaia Matrix, shows the energetic patterns which form from the past and present, as people, nature, good and bad, all “meet and greet” in one way or another and form a sacred geometry pattern with the geography and social manifestations.
The the New View published in UK, in their Summer edition, has done an amazing article on the Death of the Municipality. This is not just a statement for the UK but as centralization continues as a pattern of political social engineering;, the values, the contributions, the diversity of the human expression, continues on its journey into a future, if not explored and brought to vision and action by our citizens, will be left to the technocrats and global Directors to manage. There is a reason we had small villages and towns and municipalities —these are social, economic and spiritual reasons. There is a newness and a letting go of the old is happening and it is amazing, but the roots of Being Human and creating a new Vision is truly needed now ….and this is not a poltical statement but rather a call to community responsibility to define itself and manifest in Freedom its Vision at the grassroots level with Town Hall gatherings. Thanks for sharing the Village Life Bob for it brings all the thinking and pondering down to two human beings enjoying a shared life over a beer. Profound and yet so simple. Your friends, Klaus and Shirley
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Wonderful to hear from you. And a profound comment.
Bob
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