Dear Editor,
The geese are already flying south to warmer climes. The view from my window at Thompson View Manor is superb. "Don't forget to look up at the sky," Stephen Hawking told his children. We should likewise look up to see the light changing and the clouds changing their patterns across the land. I have the time to see now, that I missed years ago. The Earth is one country, and we should look after it as closely as we do our homes and families.
How well I know how the day-to-day matters absorb thoughts and concerns. But I also know how important it is, more than ever, to know what is going on in the world.
"I don't listen to the news," I hear from a few. "It depresses me." Those words make me realize that we who think of ourselves as communicators should work harder to communicate than we do. The media provides the means to educate us and to fully involve our senses. Knowledge Network is one station that is both entertaining and informative to an exciting degree, and no commercial advertising to interrupt it. How railroads build and connect in places like Australia, Norway, Mexico, and our own Hudson Bay. Astrophysicists like Dr. Brian Cox and others enlighten and absorb. I don't understand everything I hear and see, but I know my old brain cells can stir and provide me with insights I never had before.
Ashcroft is one again providing our communities with plays and music. November will being another hilarious pantomime, and in the spring Fiddler on the Roof will give us memorable scenes and emotions to remember for years. Please keep yourselves informed of these bounties bestowed by so many here with talents and capabilities. I am so happy to continue to live in such a wonderful community. God bless you all.
Esther Darlington
Ashcroft, B.C.
