At the Parks celebration for Roger Beardmore someone asked me what is it that you learned the most from being a director. I’m not sure I answered the question it caught me off guard. It is a personal question and I’m so used of answering the blood & gut questions of day to community issues that I did not give a answer. I started off saying the Westbeach Development public meeting was a larger turning point in my awareness of my place in the North Shuswap as a CSRD representative. Answering the question what had I learned most(which in proper political response I did not answer); is the awareness of who I am and what it is I to do. The whole time has and is a constant questioning myself has been; is this, what the community wants. Is this is best for the community? Getting opinion, from the community, at times that has clear and directive conclusion has some analogy to picking up mercury with rubber mitts on a tossing boat.
It has been a constant inward look as to what is the truth in me. What is it is it I really hear and see from the public. All too often I find myself creating what the residents want; either for expedience of time or thinking what is best for the community without asking them. Separating the image of what I want to the reality of what I think is there has been the biggest lesson not just as a representative of the people of North Shuswap but in every part of my life. There is so much that I learned and I do appreciate the community that gave me this opportunity, very much.
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