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COMMUNITY
EVENTS B2

‘AT T iBRARY
SHEELAGH MEIKLEM

Pages to ponder

UMMER appears to have
come and gone: we’ve had all
the fun we are going to have
this year. Fall and winter
loom ahead: we struggle to find mean-
ing in this weather cycle of the North.

What’s it all about, Alfie? Can we live a

-Tich and meaningful life despite the
weather?

The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life is
a book by Thomas Moore that deals with
that issue, without the wealher angle. His
premise is ihat soul is an essential in-
gredient of life and to achieve soul requires
the use of a new therapy, called enchant-
ment,

To bring soulfulness to everyday life in a
realistic way, the therapy of enchantment
aims at letting the soul sing and create a
beautiful life, The most enchanting places
on earth may be far less than perfect yet
still charm us. The same is true of people.
Eccentricity and imperfection can be more
enchanting than perfection and normality.

Another book along the same lines is
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Com-
fort and Joy by Surah Ban Breathnach.
This book takes you day by day through the

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year with hints and homilies designed to
help bring new meaning and joy to your
life. .

Deepak Chopra has wrilten several books
on this lopic. The Seven Spiritual Laws of
Success is concise and easy to read. It is the
least repetitive of his books.

First Things First by Stephen R. Covey
is a useful book for people in necd of time
management techniques. The key to a suc-
cessful life is balance between all the fac-
tors in your life, being able to achieve your
goals and still put people ahead of achicve-
ment. This is an in-depth guide to enable
you to do this.

As a demonstration of the old saying ‘‘the
more things change, the more they stay the
same’’, read The Decline of Pleasure by
Walter Kerr, published in 1962 but still ap-
propriate today!

Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the
Politics of the Body by Riane Eisler is a
scholarly exploration of love and power re-
lations throughout history, how gender is-
sues have changed and wrought change in
both good and bad ways.

An interesting book about a man in search
of greater meaning is Jnto the Wild by Jon
Krakauer, the true story of Chris McCand-
less who gave away all his worldly posses-
sions and headed into the Alaskan wilder-
hess with only a small rifle and a ten pound
bag of rice. The tragic results were prevent-

able. But who can say that he did not
achieve his goal?

‘Tf you are curious about humans as a
group, the library has a strange book called
The Compass in Your Nose and Other As-
tonishing facts about Humans. Did you
know that the eye muscle gets the biggest
workout of any muscle in your body,
moving about 100,000 umes in 24 hours,
the equivalent of walking fifty miles. Or
that 11,000 years ago, the largest cily on
earth had a population of 150 people,

For mystery lovers: a series about a detec-
tive who opted out of the rat race to search
for life’s deeper meaning in Florida. The
author is Carl Hiassen, some of the titles
ate Double Whammy, Tourist Season,
Powder Burn and Strip Tease. His most
memorable character is a man known as
Skink who lives in the wilds and specializes
in toad kill barbecues. He had been the
governor of Florida, the last honest man un-

’ the corruption around became {oo great
to bear so he retired into the wilderness.

T.S.Eliot said:

We shall not cease frem exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time,

The library is a good place io start your
exploration.

Rawk

A BLAST: Riverboat Days’ Concerts
in the Park celebration treated locals
fo one great act after another.
Counterclockwise: Members of the
Prince Rupert rock band Bacon (top
and top left} wowed the younger set
with an impressive collection of
original alternative rock tunes; Deb-
bie Toovey (left) added a gospel note
on Sunday afternoon; The ever-
popular Low Budget Blues Band
(bottom left) tansparted the
audience back the the 60s; Hoods in
the Woods (botiom tight) kept toas
tapping to the classic rock beat; and
no concert in the park at the Jim
Ryan Bandshell would be complete
without Jim Ryan (below) leading the
Terraca Community Band. The
weather threatened to rain, but the
coal air was just the ticket to keep
most park-goers comfortable. it all
had many wishing for more frequent
outdoor concerts.