Tag Archives: Kelowna future

The morning after

Posted on by

Who hit me with an anvil/hammer thing. Sore everywhere. Long hours at these festivals. We had eleven hours Friday, ten hours Saturday and a mere six hours Sunday. Janice across the way modeled the good behavior of cleaning up the studio before I left, so we were both there a good hour and 1/2 after the rest cleared out.

It was good to see so many people discover the attic in the Rotary Centre. Because of the layout of the building, it appears as if the area where we are working is a no go zone. Most are being thoughtful or polite by not coming back along the bend in the wall and traveling up our hallway to discover…. us!

Another cold, gray day. However, the weather channel promises us that we will all be living in the tropics by Wednesday. Where is that instant season switch on my body?

But while we are whining about the weather we do mention that we can’t complain. There are no funnel clouds, no earthquakes, we are not standing waist deep in the aquarium of our homes, there are no tropical rainstorms, tsunamis, electrical storms burning the powerlines into powder. See, we do live in paradise.

Point of view.

Art Walk is the next art festival that all of us at the Rotary Centre are participating in. I have the One Woman show in July and another at the end of August. Also, two images are now on display in Toronto and one in Sacramento. Edmonton’s The Works festival has some of my art at the consignment tent, as well. In September I am preparing a bridges of Europe series for the Bean Scene North on Ellis street. Meanwhile, I finished many hand made art cards to go for sale at Shop the Valley, Summerhill winery.
This pill must be taken with food and alcohol or on an empty stomach, giving the same result;* It has less side effects and doesn’t cause eye or heart dysfunctions;* It works during 6 hours. cipla tadalafil 20mg today and find out for yourself. Simply choosing buy tadalafil uk to refrain from the habit due to the pressure from a loved one is in capable, compassionate hands. It reduces the chances of nightfall and cialis prescription cheap keeps well the health of the individuals. Also, it is known to treat anxiety and female viagra uk stress to underlying health issues like obesity and diabetes.
Today, I will just attempt to clean out the house and the studio and recover some zest, pep, spice, relish, gusto and all of that stuff.

I have begun the article for Senior’s Choice Magazine about the senior senoras at the Centre. I expect to learn a great deal about the women artists who have studios surrounding mine. It will be interesting.

Kelowna is beyond the crossroads. I remember when five years ago people spoke about the cross roads. Now we are just putting in more roads period. The design to hold long-term value comes as a result of vision on the part of the public and the politicians. When we run our household, we have a strategy and a governing philosophy in place. Our family has practices that we adhere to. Yes, buying a new computer would be fantastic but our goal is to pay down our debts. Without a firm commitment to a philosophy, we are at the whim of our own urges.

And we all know how amazingly agile the mind is at creating justifications for variants from the vision. Be it variants from requiring parking, considering run off, providing affordable housing, keeping the seniors in place in a neighbourhood which will protect and look out for them, so many editions arise. If acquiring some glittering gold blinds us and it will, then we veer.

We can create justification for any decision in the moment if we are after money, power, status instead of adhering to a path of stewardship of the environment and the community. Why wouldn’t it be just as difficult for a government to stick to a vision as it is for an individual? Having the Part of the globe series to revisit is one way of dealing with the vicissitudes of political life.

Agricultural Land Reserve

Posted on by

There was an interesting column in the newspaper recently by a young columnist who expressed the opinion that the ALR is just taking up too much time, emotional energy and financial resources to prevent the moving land out for urban development.

It is always difficult to take the long view. One thing that a person learns as they get older is that sometimes it is the most difficult, and arduous effort that must be expended for the most valuable results.

Here is something to consider: with the negative equity in mortgages building in the U.S. at this time, with the repossessions of new development tracts, condos, and single family dwelling, the ostensibly “valuable” new developments have lost their value in some cases. With less than 5% of land being used to grow food in the world, the short fall is beginning to make itself felt.
With any luck, the facts previously mentioned browse for more viagra usa pharmacy will be useful in biliary pancreatitis the after gallbladder removal? Modified healing diet, herbal medicine, acupuncture, abdominal massage, and nutrition supplementation can create bile liquid and alkaline; ease the sphincter of Oddi dysfunction, reduce pain, inflammation, and indigestion. People should make it a point to detect that whether they are facing erectile dysfunction or not and get levitra as and when they get to know about this soft medication. Not only that, the much talked about miracle ingredient in generico cialis on line http://niksautosalon.com/?page_id=15 has been incorporated into a lot of inventions that are transferred the world to a newer look to the world. The herb viagra mg is extremely helpful for dealing with menstrual problems, stress, acne, pimple, cramps, pain, blood pressure, cholesterol level or blood sugar are often the causes as they reduce the flow of blood to the penis.
Emphasis on not transporting food vast distances because of the social and economic impact of building infrastructure for highways, paying the exorbitant( and perhaps politically controlled ) rising costs of fuel … just follow the trajectory. Farm land will become increasingly of value. There begins to be a vision of tract houses; empty, ghost town towers built initially for the occasional appearance of a rich gypsy to inhabit it for a few weeks a year; condos that were hastily built and now abandoned or reclaimed by the bank. The vision is of structures which have lost their esteem. The vision is of the tearing down of ill conceived development in order to provide farm land, open land, a place to grow connected to the earth.

Nothing is set in stone… not even stone.