solstice on the island...

We're getting closer to the solstice here.

A people of festivals.  A people that used to go to Church every Sunday... ?

I see many movements... There's a huge movement, to create spaces for neighbors to meet one another and talk about common realities.  I see organizers.  Leaders.

I had an idea for a new creative ''manif'' ...
I see hundreds of people dancing... une gigue!  (a jig)

Imagine everyone crossing arms and spinning, meeting one another with a laughter, a face, a look in the eyes... skipping around and switching partners, until we meet everyone and make 'them' dizzy watching us from their glass towers and helicopters!

It would be such a gesture, to dance... Emma Goldman's revolution.

Or Nietzsche's revolution - as far as my exegesis goes - for it is an unleashing of our greater potential as creators.

We don't go to Church anymore.
In the summer time, we sit on our front stoops and our balconies.  In the winter, however, we sit facing the television, still.  And that's definitely another angle of the revolution we must look into! (The concentration of the media is REAL my friends... )

This island has potential.  The summer time brings such an explosion of life!  Balconies are full of tomatoes plants everywhere, strawberries hanging down, basil, onions, roses...

We're coming close to solstice.  Which also means Saint-Jean-Bapstiste.

What is it gonna be?
Another drunken celebration of our gregarious tendencies, or ... an event?  I want to see things move forward... so bad, though I know the resistance is real and widespread.  Here, amongst my people, we are ready to take a chance...

I was thinking.
Québec has a strong history of syndicalism.  I haven't read much about the topic, actually.  I don't know much about the struggles in the sixties; but I do know that today's unions are often considered as power thirsty as their counterparts, bosses and owners.
What if the unions got rid of bosses and owners?
What if workers united together, and between industries, to create a large network?  What if the superfluous disappeared?
Could we make it work?
That's the question !

I have been working at Touski for two months now; and I am witnessing a wonderful experiment in self-management, of team work, of doing business, and making food for the people.
You should see the amount of emails that go around on our mailing list list, each day.  But it works.  We are all concerned.  We are all asked to do a bit of extra work, and take some responsibilities, in order to make the restaurant prosper...

I love it.


 

And after work, I like to take my camera out... 

Noticing that a great number of schools were indeed founded by the religious community.

Roduction Éalisations Ndépendantes de Ontréal

Of minds and men (Mtl, Moscow, Mind)

Création d'espaces créatifs

All things are well in the midst of the Squirrel's Spire.

  Beautiful encounters over the past few das, the past few weeks.  I am trying not to make sense of it all but rather to experience it, with trust.  With breath.  

If the results of this experiment in abundance have been positive so far, I simultaneously feel another strong emotion... The depth of the Unknown, the compulsive fears and reactions, the anxieties of eminent change, of a potentially profound transformation.

Power to the Neighborhoods!
(Oui!)

As the Second Quiet revolution is starting to take place, we, the people, and I, actually, are starting to wonder... what's the point again?

''Le tintamarre des Casseroles'' is still happening, every night, though in reduced numbers now.  It has been going on since May 18th.  That's almost one month!  Every night, some... citizens get out and start following sidewalks and banging on their pots and pans.  Neighborhoods concentrate and relate, in this demonstration against the undemocratic absurdity of Loi 78.  Oh yeah, that's why!

But people also go to work everyday.  They also eat and so they cook or buy food.  They go for a drink or two, they see their friends.  We want the revolution AND life as usual.  We want to eat well and to be surrounded by people we love.  And why not?  You can't be on the battlefront at all times; because then, what are you fighting for?

Is the movement losing its breath?  I don't know, 'cuz I haven't been to the protests!

I am fighting for the Beauty and the interconnection in All things.  I am fighting for the Mystery of Life.

But sometimes I find it hard to sustain the fight.

Thoughts?  If the human species disappeared, it would take no more than a hundred years for planet Gaïa to rejuvenate Herself.

We are not indispensable.

 By now, we have to acknowledge that, since our arrival, we have been the most destructive species on Earth.  We need to acknowledge this reality, our reality, if we want to move forward.

And so once more it seems it comes down to some primary Guilt.  Damn guilt.
When you mama gave birth to you, it was the most painful and mystical experience... and yet.
 It's just how it is.

(Plus we now have epidurals anyway.  Not that I'm against it, just that we have adapted to make birth less painful and less dangerous.  Less mothers die I suppose.  That's a good thing!  But we get born in these conditions now, shielded and numbed from the pain of birth, and so we carry this on later in life, using more drugs, which I am not saying I am against either... given that it's all interconnected, and that the Earth also gives us these plants...)
(I could go on and one with musings on sacred medicine, but that'll have to be for another time.)




In short, all in all, consciousness is quite a phenomenon...

What are they trying to sell to us?

Une affiche, un manifeste non-signée. (Centre-Sud.)

 Of course I am trying to make sense of what's going on.  Why wouldn't I?  Why wouldn't a tree drink from its roots and tend toward the Sun?

 I don't need a lot of money.  What would be nice, however, is a good camera...

P.S. Remember !  The whole world is going through its revolutions.  One hundred thousand people gathered yesterday in Moscow, to overtly protest Putin's government and ask for new elections.  

Since embarking on his third presidential term, Putin has taken a stern stance toward the opposition, including signing a repressive new bill last week introducing heavy penalties for taking part in unauthorized rallies

Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Tens+thousands+flock+anti+Putin+protest+Moscow/6768552/story.html#ixzz1xbCWp9cE

Yep.  It's happening in Russia right now.  Same thing!



A famous photo from Germany.  Cops suddenly take off their helmets and escort the anti-capitalist protests taking place in Frankfurt...  May 19, 2012.   (That was about two weeks ago.)



And in Poland, also yesterday!  :D  This is in parliament.