C10 - Sunday, October 10, 1982 - North Shore News

QUESTION: ...and will you
please answer this letter
personally. I don’t want it
renin your column....

STEWART: The above is
just one of several” recent
queries. Lately, there has

for appointments
- beat.the In

been a rash of requests, for
“individuat replies. Such

personal replies would, quite.

properly, turn into a con-
tinuing correspondence,
which of course I cannot
handle. Moreover, the long,
involved and complex letters

THOUGHTS ON MORALITY

QUESTION: I'm doing some
thinking about right and
wrong. Ive always been
taught that right is right and
wrong is wrong. I have
accepted that for . may
personal guide. But the
other day I heard the Phil
Donahue TV show and he
said, “If my kids were
starving, I would steal.” He’s
against. stealing, . but, .under
certain” circumstances he
would go ahead. That
bothers me considerably. It
isn’t that he would do it that
bothers me, but it’s the prin-
ciple [Tm wrestling with.
Would you care to com-
" ment?
STEWART: I don’t feel
comfortable to say to myself,

Vhen wrong is right

(or to God, or to my kids)

that I am all for-honesty and
will be honest under most
circumstances, but that
when I am put in a very dif-
ficult situation, I plan to set
aside my conviction about
honesty and replace it, out
of compassion or concern,
with some thing more
suitable
circumstances.

I feel more comfortable ~
about going for honesty as .

my chosen way. Period.
When circumstances

change, I hope, with what- =

ever awareness | have at the

time, I will make a choice’ ;

that is. congenial with the
very best that is made evi-
dent to me. In which case, I

are the ones that most often,
ask for a personal reply.

I nearly always send off a
brief acknowledgment of
such requests, but thought it
might be practical for me to
state in the column I cannot
answer them satisfactorily.

ask hayden stewart

Freelance Counsellor Hayden Stewart may be reached at 261-6242

for individual, family or group. counselling. He will
térnational Plaza every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m.

have a hunch I will not be
forsaking anything,
choosing well.

but

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EATON'S

Our writers would be far
more likely to have their
letters appear in the column
if they keep them to one or
two points. I am always.
eager to receive letters, of
course, and it is discon-
serting when they are too
lengthy or too involved to
print. Please think of the one
thing (or perhaps two) that
you want to write about and
get the letter in the mail.
Many of the letters that
include a request for an indi-

vidual, written response, are
ones that indicate a need for
counselling of one sort or
another. My work is coun
selling and I am always
receptive to telephone calls
requesting appointments. I
have an office on the North
Shore on Tuesdays and
appointments may be made
easily, simply by ‘phoning
me. If Tuesdays are awk-
ward, other days I am in my
Vancouver o office. Lest this

sounds tike™ a plug, let me

assure prospective callers,
that.I will be happy to refer

‘them to other counsellors on

the North Shore, or in
Vancouver.

So — keep those letters
coming in!. Keep them
pointed and not too ram-
bling. If you want personal
responses, please consider
counselling as an alternative
for it is impossible for me to
keep up a heavy programme
of correspondence.— Thank
you. ‘. —

a See, wok

LONG.RANGEPLAN __
WEST VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD.

The Board of School Trustees, West Vancouver,

is en-

deavouring to establish priorities for School District 445. The
Board is receiving submissions from individuals or groups. in
West Vancouver regarding. what the priorities should be. Sub-
missions should preferably be in writing and: delivered to the
School Board Offices by October 21. Opportunities for verbal —
presentation will be available on the evening of October 25 at the
Board Offices, 1075 21st Street, West Vancouver. More than

‘one meeting: time may-b
expressing. priorities one:

ecessary ‘to hear ail submissions. in~
nclude the outcomes expected

-if the priorities | were-to be adopted. For further information. -Call

. 922- 9151.

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