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.

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