The small village proclaims its virtue
If there’s something that small towns do well, it’s celebrating their own personal identity. Big cities may have the budget to shout from high rooftops, but a town where the council can sit around the kitchen table will win, every time, when it comes to delivering the message. A case in point, the program La Petite Séduction on Radio-Canada.
This week, we spent an hour with the citizens of Ile-Verte, QC. There may be more than one green island in the province, but the community is singular, composed of both a mainland village AND an island. My own experience, based on attending a marriage there just about thirty years ago, is limited. But, after watching Dany Turcotte and Elise Guilbault as the visitors of honour, I’ve got the urge to drop in again. Just because.
Last summer, if memory serves, the production team spent time on my Island. Come on, Radio-Canada… let’s put the archives online. After all, the hard work is already done. Why not let people see for themselves what hides behind a postal code.
I’ve got a new dream. How about if my next house is really large (within reason). That way, I can put my stuff in an even layer, making it easier to find the item that gets lost in the shuffle. I’ve been searching for a battery pack that’s hiding in plain view here. Found lots of other treasured articles, but I’m easily distracted. If the accumulation was uniformly distributed, I’ve have more time to profit. A bigger house is much neater to dream about, compared with a reduction of stocks.
