Yoism
Open source religion. Or, perhaps a better word might be spirituality.
A lot of people probably have the practice of it, just not the label.
Link: https://www.yoism.org/
And a Link to the Wiki on Open Source Religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_religion
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Stormy, etc
So, a big part of the return here has been dealing with Stormy's affairs. Banking, arranging payment of the home, visiting - and - after a fashion he seems to be settling in, he introduces me to some new friends he's made, a husband and wife, others, takes me on a tour of the facilities, shows me his "haunts".
After catching up I promise to take him into Nelson Friday to run some errands and see some of his friends.
And when I arrive on Friday he's packed. Ready to go. He's running away, never coming back, he's packed his cherished possessions into a couple of cardboard boxes, he's going to have me drop him at the bank, he'll find a room or place to live...
I hate breaking the bad news, but if I'm signing him out I got to sign him back in.
He's not happy, but that's the deal.
With that understanding we set out.
A long drive for not a lot of visiting, frequent stops for bathroom, cigarettes, lunch at McDonalds (and he's impressed, loves it, can't remember when last he was here), on to Nelson where we go to the bank, grab coffee, do some thrifting - he finds a pair of shoes he's chuffed with, and other trifling errands. We look for some of his friends, few of them are anywhere to be found over the holidays, then he's done. We head back to Trail.
He's a charming host, guest, after his fashion, although he substantially overrated his walking skills (about 20 yards before he's exhausted), and seems reluctant to let me go - rare for him, generally he visits for a bit and is finished. And seeing - that despite he protests he hates Trail, and I understand why, he's nonetheless making friends, I'm not leaving him in the best of hands but - there are worse hands for sure.
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Vancouver to Nanaimo
Tuesday, week last, a trip over to the Island to visit the boy.
Nanaimo Via Horseshoe Bay - Over the Lions Gate, into West Van, the houses, pleasant, no external clues as to their astronomical value, neighborhoods that I remember vaguely from childhood, the "rural & suburban" Vancouver, Horseshoe Bay, a stark contrast to the industrial Tsawwassen Ferry, a smaller, tiny terminal, mountains, peaks, inlets and islands, it is the very picture of an ad for "Travel BC".
The ferry ride - long, Nanaimo, well, there's nada in Nanaimo, we check the thrift shops for my bag, no luck, lunch - an overdone burger at a well reviewed pub - my own review would be substantially more damning - the boy, the island life, makes it a little, a lot tougher to "treat" him to a decent meal as I would the daughter, a short, few hour visit - but this change, to the island, the pace of life greatly slowed - it's worth it to escape the East Side, if only for a day...
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Window Dressing
(Gonna be jumping around a bit - Vancouver, Edmonton, Nelson. Going back to Vancouver for the next few posts...)
2 Weeks worth of set dressing put to rest with a single nights filming.
And now, a week later, they're cleaning it up. The brief neon cleaver, gone, scraping the letters off the tiles from the wall, undoing the floor, cleaning off the gilt on the windows that advertised the "Tongue and Tail", all the fridges, plastic meats removed, 2 weeks to build, 1 night shooting, another week to "restore" the property to the condition in which they rented it. A very short lived gentrification.
An older couple, walking past, looking at the "Tongue and Tail" writ large on the alley wall, discussing loudly "They better clean that up..." - when in fact the clean-up is the damage to the neighborhood, the film crew is busy scrubbing, replacing the gum, filling the doorway back up with the syringes, foil, feces, trash, graffiti tags on the window and alley, they'll have no improvements here...
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