ever trust t! ALEXIS CREEK — Now that the winters are getting longer again and my knee hurts before a s{orm, I have taken more to reflecting and Jess to running around and barking. The search for wisdom in this life is beginning to seem worth while. We are all offered wisdom by the pickup load but most of it isn’t worth taking, coming as it does from economists, en- vironmentalists and other experts who never got their own lives together and are reduced to selling their advice to people they hope are dumber than they are. Forget experts. When you hear the word expert, remember what John F. Kennedy said after his catastrophic mistake in trying to invade Cuba: ‘‘All my life I have known better than.to trust in ex- perts. How could I have been so stupid as to let them go ahead?”’ The great saving grace, which _ prevents us sll. from going over Niagara Falis, is that there are ordinary people around who have wisdom to offer. They don't have licences or cer- ‘-tificates, because they don’t need _ them, Such a non-expert was my old friend Lester ‘Dorsey, who is now _ mixing his bones with the pale soil _of Chilcotin. “He had ‘many wise things to say,.most of which [ probably - overlooked, but some. remain’ in memory. . a _ One was: . “Never trust the bread-and- butter man.” : ms RESIDENTS OF West Vancouver’s Monte Bre subdivision on the Caulfeild Plateau are lobbying Paul ot. Pierre PAULITICS & PERSPECTIVES ’ What in hell is that supposed to mean? I didn’t ask the first time ! heard him use ii. We were both drinking at the time and talking about moose hunts. Also, when you are younger and foolisher, you are reluctant to admit that some things people say are flying so high over your head that you can’t catch them with a butterfly net. When you get a bit older and find how full of mystery our _ world is, you have less hesitation in saying ‘‘! .don’t understand that, please explain it to me.” ~ 10 resolve the issue of a no-man’s-land ‘‘greenbelt.”’ ‘Norris ‘Morgan told the North Shore News that a portion of the greenbelt is owned collectively by the 47, Monte Bre residents, but there is no system for managing . the area. The ‘residents disagree on how to care for the greenbelt; which is currently: overgrown with’. alder . trees. It_also includes an area that col- lects up’ to one’ foot; of water, + which raises issues of, legal liability if a: child. were to be injured or . drowned in the area, |) .' According to Morgan, who ap- -peared before councii on. Monday “night, .the greenbelt » should have * been formed as a bare land strata, allowing. each’ ‘resident to own a portion and be able to manage it ~, through | a strata council. “ Tt cis an anomaly in the _Caulfeitd fand- use area voit Was a. By Maureen Curtis Contributing Writer away. There is no use in pointing fingers,’ said Mayor Mark Sager. Morgan proposed that all 47 property owners give the greenbelt to the municipality for $1 to be used as park. The municipality would solve the drainage problem and develop a focal park on the site; the costs “would be shared amongst the 47 residents over an extended period. He said that a cost of $50 per resident per year for the next 20 ie the current council So the day came when [ said “Lester, I don’t know what a bread-and-butter man is. Please explain it to me.”’ Well, he said, he had a bread- and-butter man on a recent guid- ed moose hunt. ‘*} had spotted him first day at the ranch house. Knew the type. “At the end of three days in hunting camp, I said to him, ‘Nothing personal, but you are a horse’s ass, I am taking you back -to the ranch today and you can get yourself a plane and go home to New York. There will be no charge.’ ’” So far, you see, you have learn- ed nothing about what a bread- and-butter man is. Lester was that way. He told a story like the sun crosses the sky — it comes up here, it goes down over there and men cannot hurry it. “So-far, | don’t know what a bread-and-butter man is,’’ I said. “Oh yes, you know. You have met many.”’ He took another long, reflective drink of stuff that had come out of the bottom of a keg of rusty nails and then explained it all to me in that soft, clear voice that | regret I shall never hear again in this life, “When you give him a piece of | bread and butter, it turns out that is the best bread and butter there has ever been in this world. “He doesn’t know how he got along this many. years without finding bread as great as this bread. . “The butter is the same. It is : rr VANCOUVER - DISTRICT COUNCIL to 25. years might be acceptable to - everyone. But Coun. Ron Wood said that the proposal ‘‘would not address the principle that, in fact, the area has no park value to the com- munity.”” Morgan argued that the area would be like any other park that would be developed as part of a subdivision being created today, and could be used in conjunction with the nearby tennis courts. Council directed parks director Kevin Pike to come up with an estimate of the cost of converting the greenbelt toa park. North Vancouver City Library NOW HAS Fiiday, March 5, 1993 - North Shore News - 9 even spread in a special way, just the right amount of butter on just the right thickness of bread. “It is only bread and it is only butter but he makes it sound fike the second coming of Christ.” “That man is going to go sour. If you don't get rid of him he will sour every other man around him. “All of a sudden the bread and er if they seem {(o be enjoying themselves ‘without his supervi- sion. When everybody else is get-: ting firewood and raising tents, he is sulking and waiting to be notic- ed for it. “All his life he has spent his time using hope instead of sense, and he causes trouble for every human being he deals with, start- butter you serve him will be the ing with his mother.” worst bread and butter he has ever et and why can’t he get his eggs cooked the way he has asked you and asked you to cook them. “He gets aches and pains, which he figures nobody else pays enough attention to. He begins to snipe at other people. ' “He goes into six kinds of fits In the years that followed that conversation, I met many men and women with hearts too soon made glad. They usually turned out to be horses’ asses. 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