| 4) Wednesday; Febru 12, 1986-~‘ North Shore News Bob Hunter © strictly personal © EVERYONE should go away to cabin by themselves on Vancouver Island, or: some such place, at least once a year. Winter is the best time because I there is no one around.. With luck, you can have vast landscapes‘ ‘of tideflat all to yourself, with. the uninhabitable- looking western coast of the Ca- | nadian mainland no more than a distant. ridge of broken rock’ and ice. -The,. advantage of being - by yourself’ for a while is. that you rediscover: ‘who you are'in a way. that . you: never can so long as there is‘ even’ one other human being 2round,..no matter. how } unobstrusive that. person’ might trytobe:. .:. A human is the equivalent of a 000-pound gorilla, that’s all ; ite. Sometimes the 1 . "the | more distracting they become.. ; -- When! talk about- rediscover- : ing.“‘who you are”, I don’t nec- essarily mean . anything’ par- ticularly occult. 3 just mean: the +f person you are when you're not , ealing with ‘Other people: : And by” ‘* : playing. ° the day-t o-day. social “games: being nice agreeing, disagrecing ‘orders, . giving” orders, yappin ‘and. friends,: answering * phones; making: calls,.- waiting’, for the .. ‘mailperson, arriving on: time ‘for *' ‘appointments, remembering - names;": not.’ spillizg:-your, drink during a power lunch, ~ OF course,. dealing :wit! people is‘ only-a: fraction: of. the activity your’ busy little ‘brain is: ‘liable to listening, be involved. in. There ‘is? ahem, . The Media. It rises Up, Medusa- . like; all‘around: .Dot really. WANT- to see hag ‘“azine:‘covers: arrayed: in: airport “Hews: stands showing the flaming ~ remains ‘of fallen Jets the. tar- being. bad; .:- following - ~ worrying: about family. ealing’”: “I -“don’t':. mean‘ ‘anything weirder. than: just’ today? Is it absolutely necessary ~ -to follow every Media Event? And ALL events in the end, I guess, will turn out to have been Media Events staged for a Media God’s pleasure, with each one of { us getting a.chance to burlesque on the Cosmic Tube for 15 full . minutes. Oops! Oti.those rare occasions when I do get away totally : by: myself, something realiy quite pleasant { happens. FORGET YOURSELF There being no particular. need to.assume.any pose or manner in order to: please. or displease anyone, no need to maintain a _ defensive mental shield in case of “sudden interruption (so‘that your | naked brain doésn’t get wiped by a random phone - call from a psycho),. it becomes possible to just look around, sniff, feel, and, in“ fact, forget for a while you even HAVE a brain! While I was over on the island . -~.10 days in all — | saw a Great Blue: Heron, several seals, two eagles, a:host of crows and guils, cormorants; ducks and puffins, There .was.a full moon one night: when/ the tide was. out. It ~went ‘out: more than a mile. A © - me? a rainbow “ formed around the ~-moon. pote Raitt rattled. on’ old shakes.” Bursts of golden light’ occurred that. reminded me my own human “eye is the most. expensive and Magnificent lens ever devised. 1-was. absolutely. certain. that’ ‘whole megatrends were thrashing ‘around out there in the mudbath ‘of ‘instant’ :history,. but since I wasn’t in contact. with. the: real world: of. geopolitical “macroeconomics, . how. could: I know? And, not knowing, what could I fill my, head up with other than this beautiful illusion all, around Arbutus. leaves “and eagles, . seals and” mountains, frost, on . beached driftwood. Train society steamed over THE ROYAL Hudson sicam train, which runs between North Van- couver and Squamish during the summer, has been temporarily put off track with the resignation of three of its board members. The members of the Royal Hud- son Steam Train Society say they quit because of interference by the provincial government. Society president Nancy Farley, secretary Valerie Vopni and treasurer Warren Bell said when their appointments were made, Tourism Minister Claude Rich- mond had promised the gov- ernment would stay at an ‘‘arm’s length”? from the train’s opera- tion, 1767 West 3rd Avenue/Vancouver B.C./736-4424 " “Your Appliance Centre—In A Class Of Its Own” OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK We don’t just specialize ... we make everything speciall MOST CREDI T: CARDS WE DELIVER @ WORLDWIDE 929-4822 Dollar Shopping Centre WELCOME Post Office - Lotto 6/49 - Photo copies Income Tax 391 N, Dollarton Huy. SAL (Jim), ‘Rutledge RIA 929-4822 | * crystal clear. With the Crystal Hearts Bouquet... Valentine’ Ss Day. . Tickler “Hearts ‘1’ from 1498 -, Flowers 182) Mar ine Dr. 5 a ia " 922-4171: 929-3968.