A24 Thursday, December 2, 2021
Nelson Star
“The earth is one country and Mankind it’s Citizens” -the Baha’ i Faith
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250.354.7619
Kootenay Christian Fellowship Divine Purpose - Developing Relationships - Serving Community
Welcome back everyone! In Person Church Sundays at 10:30am 520 Falls Street, Nelson Also Facebook Live Church Sundays @10:30am on Kootenay Christian Fellowship page pre-register to office@kcfoffice.com or 250.352.1722 http://kootenaychristianfellowship.com https://www .k ootena ychristianfellowship.com Pastor Jim Reimer office@kcfoffice.com
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The Last Bastions
Feelingsteamrolled,levelled,unhinged even? Yes. Good. I can feel it too in the nearly whispered ethically-minded social preludes: “I’m twice-vaxed”, “I’m not”, “It’s OK, we’re outside,
and we’re both masked”. The wellintentioned vigilance in these exchanges,ersatzpolitenessabounding, are now becoming the de rigueur self-disclosures. 18 months in, our reality has seeped not only into our customs, but our language is a crisis catalog glossary: contact tracing, flattening the curve, lockdown, patient zero, respirator, Remdesivir, Ivermectin, person-to-person transmission, anti-vaxxer. Even souls who hold non-mainstream views birthed slang like: V, vaselined, vaxxed, jibby jab. These incursions into the words we breath, embed our lived experiences into sonic hieroglyphs for covid times. As I watch myself standing, masked, outside my kid’s school colony, monitoring how the children play, I silently ask myself: “am I doing the right thing sending him out there?” Gone are simple inalienable certainties. Everything
Nelson United Church
ANGLICAN CHURCH
Textile over my face, too much space around the dinner table, a gooey barrier of sanitizer around my Life. I am lonely for streets filled with us, bumping into one another, singing, holding hands. I miss the beautiful crowd of us flowing like sap down the main artery, celebrating something, anything, anywhere in the world: Carnival, Hanami, Holi, Divali, Lantern Festivals, El Dia de Los Muertos, Mevlâna, Semana Santa, Vesak, Eid al-Fitr. I am missing births, weddings, deaths; solstice gatherings, pride parades, and, yes, if I must, even Shambs. I see places of all kinds of worship “closed for business until further notice”.
Minister: David Boyd Welcome back to in-person Worship Services Sunday, 10:00 am
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Corner of Josephine and Silica Streets All are Ph: 250-352-2822www.nelsonunitedchurch.ca • nelsonunitedchurch.ca Welcome
St. Saviour’s Pro-Cathedral 701 Ward St., Nelson The Rev. Jeff Donnelly Morning Prayer online every Sunday via Zoom ~ join us! email us at: kokaneeanglicans@gmail.com
with Hearing Loop
Food Pantry Open Fridays 9 – 11
must be sanitized except, imaginations - the last bastions.
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Toward the end of the Second Indochina War – a war which lasted 20 plus years, not 18 months – at a time when North Vietnamese-Viet Cong community built “tens of thousands of miles of tunnels underground”; these tunnels housed troops, yes, and also, civilian refugee families with children. They dwelled there formidable and industrious, borrowing from ants a way to survive the bombing campaigns. In this colony, the children played indoors, in the dark. Mothers whistling them back home to their carved out “room” to eat and sleep on straw bedding, huddled, the low cave ceilings vibrating above their heads. One family lived like this for 6 years, under the blanket of complete darkness. And, one day, the shelling stopped. They emerged, drenched by sunlight, pulling out their nets, fishing freely again, cooking up the spoils of freedom, oceanside at sunset. It was finally over. On dusty ground, hands reached for bamboo, the time for rebuilding had begun. Carina Costom is a former employment facilitator, community services navigator and managing editor. She is a writer and parent living in Nelson, BC.
After your life has been saved by a mask, save another! Dispose your mask properly & clip the elastic strings.