Dearest Annette, thank you so much for this piece today and coming to Pie Cottage for Sunday Supper! It was wonderful to meet you and your lovely family. I have worked hard to create a sanctuary of contentment which is what I hoped it would become decades ago when I first bought it as nothing more than a piece of land with a house and a landscape of unruly field grass. I’m honored that you see my it now as a “peace” of medieval heaven. There’s always room at my table for you and yours. Please come again. ❤️
Enjoyable piece of writing, especially the pie portions—but also the Scottish history, which I never knew. Kate’s cottage, pies and hospitality seem extraordinary. I like how you tied it all together.
This is such an uplifting "peace" (as Kate McDermott put it in her comment). Thank you for sharing. I think that as we model the world in which we want to live, more and more people get a chance to glimpse what it could be like. And some of them figure out that the quantity of their life's breaths is all that they have. And, that spending them in happiness and in helping/sharing is, and I hope that this is more than just my opinion, the definition of living a successful life.
Interestingly, while waterfront land may be privately owned in BC
almost all the foreshore belongs to the Crown (the people of the province) and beach access can't be denied below the high tide line (I believe I have it right). You just can't tromp across someone's property to get to the beach.
Also, regarding potlatch. Potlatch could have a dark side too. It could be, and was, used as a weapon to bankrupt a rival.
Thank you again Annette for a very happy afternoon. If the shop hadn't closed we might be there still!
Love all of this! Thanks for the shout out, we need to do it again. I’ll bring my nephew 😆
Dearest Annette, thank you so much for this piece today and coming to Pie Cottage for Sunday Supper! It was wonderful to meet you and your lovely family. I have worked hard to create a sanctuary of contentment which is what I hoped it would become decades ago when I first bought it as nothing more than a piece of land with a house and a landscape of unruly field grass. I’m honored that you see my it now as a “peace” of medieval heaven. There’s always room at my table for you and yours. Please come again. ❤️
Annette I would love it if my 15 year old history students puts down their phones so I could, at minimum, spoonfeed them at least a bit of history.
**Just kidding. They all wrote fantastic essays about how Europeans and Africans resisted colonialism in Africa in the early 1900s**
Enjoyable piece of writing, especially the pie portions—but also the Scottish history, which I never knew. Kate’s cottage, pies and hospitality seem extraordinary. I like how you tied it all together.
This is such an uplifting "peace" (as Kate McDermott put it in her comment). Thank you for sharing. I think that as we model the world in which we want to live, more and more people get a chance to glimpse what it could be like. And some of them figure out that the quantity of their life's breaths is all that they have. And, that spending them in happiness and in helping/sharing is, and I hope that this is more than just my opinion, the definition of living a successful life.
Interestingly, while waterfront land may be privately owned in BC
almost all the foreshore belongs to the Crown (the people of the province) and beach access can't be denied below the high tide line (I believe I have it right). You just can't tromp across someone's property to get to the beach.
Also, regarding potlatch. Potlatch could have a dark side too. It could be, and was, used as a weapon to bankrupt a rival.
Thank you again Annette for a very happy afternoon. If the shop hadn't closed we might be there still!