Where we Mourn:

‘The cemetery,’ wrote Thomas W. Laquer, ‘would not speak of a place but of people from all places … unknown to each other in life and thrown together in a place with which they might have had only the most transitory acquaintance’.


Thursday, March 3, 2011

Show time

12, March 2012, the Parting Stone will debut on SHAW TV Okanagan Today at 10:00am.
This will be the culmination of nearly a year of work. It just doesn't stop there either
at the Monday City of Kelowna council meeting, roadside memorials were going to be addressed.

Were politicians going to legislate the grieving process and enforce conformity? Were they going to deny personal mourning? The clerks had drafted bylaws giving these memorials a 2 year life span and it went to a vote. One councilor painted a picture of memorials ;popping up like dandelions for each and every traffic fatality in the city, over run by crosses, a city transformed into a cemetery. Compassion and common sense won out as the majority had ruled that enough bylaws already exist and council had no place in dictating how people grieved and mourned. I suspect that it ain't over.

We have been making arrangements to screen the Parting Stone at Thompson Rivers University with a directors Q&A session. I had best bone up on my public speaking.
Later this month there will be a session with the Knowledge Network so our fingers are crossed. Maybe we will see the light of day Canada wide but I am happy with local exposure.

It is just about getting people to think.

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