This week, I listened to a Zoom presentation on Redefining Retirement by Joel Stoddart, Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre.

It was an overview of a set of three hour workshops to be offered in February. Afterwards I decided that I could pursue my retirement activities without the Zoom workshops. But I did learn about the Japanese concept of Ikigai, that means ‘ reason for being’.
Meanwhile, I dropped off a thumb drive to Integrity Printing in Bridgetown. It contains the text of my blogs for 2020. In total, one hundred and five. Some of which were contributed by Edward Wedler.
I wanted to ensure that all was not lost, if for some reason, we suffered an electronic meltdown. The year, 2020 constituted Volume 5. Volume 1 contains blogs for Go-Geomatics before 2017; Volume 2, 2017, Volume 3, 2018, and Volume 4, 2019.

Over a week ago, I was in the Odd Book store in Wolfville. When there, I often look for publications by Gaspereau Press. In the past, I have picked up the writing of Peter Sanger, Harry Thurston and Soren Bondrup-Nielsen. This time, no luck. Perhaps I was looking in the wrong part of the store.
Next time I am in Kentville, I should go to the source: 47, Church Avenue. Meanwhile from their online catalogue, I noted the following:
Harry Thurston 2020, Lost River: the Waters of Remembrance. A Memoir.
Aldo Leopold, 2020, Wherefore Wildlife Ecology? An Essay.
Wendell Berry, 2020, Notes: Unspecializing Poetry. An Essay.
This week saw the return of the Bridgetown Reader after their Christmas break. It includes updates on the relationship between the municipality and Gordonstoun, as well as a report on the Public Health Care Clinic in Middleton.
Health care in rural Nova Scotia remains a topic worthy of comment. For example, see Ralph Surette’s column in the weekend Chronicle Herald. ‘COVID crisis papers over Health bureaucracy fiasco“.
In conclusion, he quotes MacKenzie King in 1927:
‘Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government’
‘Sounds like us’ !
(my exclamation mark) Right on, Ralph.
References
Ralph Surette, Chronicle Herald. January 23, 2021.
Postscript
Check out the latest from Emergence Magazine
Counter Mapping. Emergence Magazine. January 24, 2021.

Acknowledgements
Edward Wedler for his support and collaboration in this adventure. Heather for sharing the journey.