The last 6 months have seen momentous changes in my life, but when was there a 6-month period that wasn’t so? I do notice however that it is sometimes more difficult to wade through new challenges and find patterns and processes that enable me to “keep it tidy.”
We have new plans afoot for the business and personally. In some ways they are a culmination of many threads in our lives, but having twined together, they now leave lose ends to be explored.
Clive and I share an interest in history. We are both children of immigrants – colonists, so to speak, whose families were in the thick of some of the more significant events of the past century. We are shaped by cultures with long memories. Along another thread we share a love of the digital arts, he twists in a profound knowledge of 3D modeling and I add a line on story-telling. We almost sold our home on Eby street to a woman who wanted to build a spiritual sanctuary, and that felt right, but she was forced to return to the USA. We are both concerned about sustainability and we are of an age that our parents speak with knowledge about the Depression. We like museums. Disconnected threads…..
We could not sell our home on Eby St., but now we see that this was meant to be. We are going to transform it into a museum about life in Waterloo Region in the Depression, when recycling was quotidien and people grew market gardens, not because it was correct, but because it was necessary. We have no plans to restore the building to its original form — it wouldn’t pass code anyway, but we can show how people lived, in a home built in 1931, through multimedia. The threads come together with purpose. The past is with us and shows us the way.
