[Sundaycommunity] Such a joyous time has been this first year in my new home on Vancouver island,

[Sharon McCarthy]

Hi Art and Angie

Thanks for sharing!
You have found the perfect place!
Congrats on going for your annual plunge Art!
👏👏👏

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:45 PM Arthur Blomme via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> What a marvelous year has passed and now I see in this upcoming year the
> manifestation of the Christmas story.  Light is coming into the world
> revealing the powerful reality and beauty of creation that in these times
> is hidden by fear and mass psychosis.
>
> So much has happened in 2021 Angie and I have lived the entirety  of 2021
> in our new Chemainus home on Vancouver Island. Here is a Youtube depicting  my
> 2nd annual New Years plunge into the Georgia Strait.
> <https://youtu.be/Mw-W2P6tnss>  Providence has given us an opportunity to
> live a more paleo lifestyle cooperating with creation to regenerate an
> edible forest.
>
> How satisfying it is to it own the product of our labour.  We began by
> cutting down the Medusa cedar trees threatening our home and those of my
> neighbors. I then milled the Cedars into lumber.  I work the back end of
> the mill on the hottest day of the year baptizing my relationship to this
> piece of land with my blood and sweat. My tears now a memory of the past.
> From the lumber I milled I was able to construct a deck and a sauna. The
> sauna was functional a week before Christmas and  facilitated my 2nd annual
> new years plunge.
>
> In July I was able to attend my daughter Maya's wedding to Brandon Willms
> at canoe medals in the Kananaskis river near Calgary.  I shared this
> celebration with Angie, my grandchild, my children, my four brothers,and
> Brandon's lovely Mennonite family and their wholesome kayaking community.
>
> My son Jacob and Samantha Coomara had to cancel their second attempt to
> celebrate marriage in June because of covert restrictions. As previously
> planned  they visited us were here in Chemainus. It was great that I could
> spend some time with my 13 year old grandson Sebastien.  Third times a
> charm. After returning to Toronto they successfully had a much smaller
> wedding celebration which Angie and I  could not attend.
>
>
>
> 2021 culminated in the healthy birth of my second grandson, Jackson on
> Dec. 28th.  Jackson was breach and his mother Brooke was scheduled for a
> cesarean on the 28th.  The tension increased when Brooke and my son
> Jonathan learned on boxing Day they had contracted Covid from Brooke's
> brother who although ill joined in the Christmas festivities thinking that
> he would not spread Covid because he was fully vaccinated.  Brooke was ill
> until she went to the operating room, experiencing no symptoms thereafter.
> Jon recovered shortly thereafter.  All are healthy and immune.
>
>
> Blinded by the light
>
> Art
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