Today we vote in the municipal election, in which mayor Nanshi is a shoe in, but my local council man is facing quite a bit of opposition for which he was not quite prepared I think. We’ll see, I vote at Mary’s parish Hall.

Last nite I coloured in the last two (red) of the eight ’tongues’ in my mandala doodle. These eight tongues create eight perimeter sections, which express the four colour themes: red, blue, green and yellow. I will now have to change from those local themes to an overall one, allowing the perimeter to define the mandala’s edge, which then slowly gives way to the four inner themes, right to the already completed center.

Friday afternoon at four, I met up with john and we drove to Inglewood’s Mexican vegan restaurant for supper. It’s food was passable, but the Sangria was ok. We walked around some, with time to spare until about 5:45pm, when we went to the ‘Festival Hall’, our venue for the evening’s ‘Screech’ performance.

The five New Found Landers provided us with an evening of good entertainment, while talking about their work and life as authors. This was all in the overall theme of this year’s mentioned ‘wordfest’, with both of us enjoying the impromptu replies to jest like questions.

These interspersed the more serious and searching answers about what authors were trying to express and why. The most thoughtful one to me was author Wayne Johnston about his “Son of a Certain Woman”, which deals with some delicate issues in the relation between mother and son.

This weekend, on my walks I took more pictures of our beautiful fall this year. On Saturday I moseyed down Fourth street - closed for traffic for the “Open for Business” - after the flood - Fourth street block party - sparely attended. I aimed for my favourite ’ShelfLife’ book store, where I perused Buruma’s “The Year Zero”, - that is 1945 - in which the author explores and documents the human capacity to overcome our self inflicted violence and suffering. It is on my list.

During Friday’s lunch, Herman and I agreed that the present disfunctioning of the government in the States, is underlain by a racially motivated battle for dominance, about which I will elaborate below; but, first a coffee break.

Yesterday I spotted the following article on the Globe and Mail website:
Globe and Mail article on USA House deadlock
by James Laxer, author of “A House Divided ~”. In the article Laxer estimates that a shift to white minority in the US will take place in 2050, but in the 19-nineties I already read about such a change for the year 2020. We know that the state of California already has a coloured majority of its population today. At the time, I also read at the time that Canada will reach that point as well, but some years later.

Casting our eyes to the world wide scene, it is very clear that even though the ‘Old White West‘ - to coin an efficient phrase - may still hold the balance of power for now, it will have to learn to accommodate others. It is in this ‘accommodation of others’ that the difficulties lie, which is valid in the case of power sharing, but also for the modifying of identities.
<11:00am, Lunch~