Cove Music
Cove Music plans to offer a series of musical concerts held in the beautiful village of Sandy Cove, Digby Neck. While the musical genre will vary, a portion of proceeds will support the community in a variety of endeavours.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Someone's Letter to Stirling Belliveau about the Birds
Honorable Sterling Belliveau
Minister of the Environment & Fisheries
Honorable and Dear Sir:
I suppose a man who spent his life fishing on the waters has had little time
to hear the birds sing! That's not to say there aren't lots of birds
following the fishing boats and treading water on the sea, but they are
unlikely candidates for American Idol this year.Their quest is food for
their survival, and not an audience interested in their unmelodic tunes.
It is we landlubbers, who have lived next to and in the forests all our
lives, who remember the joy of hearing the chanting whip-poor-will of the
darkened skies, while all their singing cousins in the trees rest in the
beauty of his song! And then, at the very crack of dawn, will relieve him-
so as to greet each human stirring from his sleep with a new days song.
How odd it is that in a time when governments are tripping over each
other,the elected bodies of the people who are given the honoured positions
they have sought, seem to forget from whence comes their authority.
I am a simple man but not a simple fool. I was taught, and I believe, that
all authority comes from God. Perhaps you personally do not believe in God.
(Many politicans seem to behave as such.) That's OK with me. However, our
whole democratic system emanates from that foundation at its roots, and
that's what you represent to me and to my compatriots.(We may try, but
cannot compartmentalize our lives.)
Perhaps your office gives you preeminence in the overall order of creation
but only minutely so, and that just for a time. The Creator Was-Is-and Will
Always Be! It's His Order that we need seek.Otherwise, is Chaos!
The road we are on- and I can't blame you for what it is- is a most
destructive route.The attachment here, an item from today's daily newspaper,
is symptomatic of our plight. It's too bad governments have no senses, most
notably hearing and sight! Governments are deaf and blind to God's created
world. It's a great tragedy when those we elect to government can go blind
and deaf over night.
Surely someone in your branch must know that Digby Neck and Islands have
been a migratory bird route for ages, and that someone should have told you,
and your predecessors, through the years. In just the last fifteen or so
since I returned to live here, I watched massive destruction of that which
helps to keep natures balance- and that is gradually going to spin out of
control.A good scientist would agree!
Initially, I watched it clearcut of every standing tree- some not big enough
for a long fishing pole or a lengthy tooth pick. Every creature, nesting
birds included, was driven out. Where would they go? Does your Dept. provide
a new home for them? An NDP SPCA? A good and caring man, and government,
should well be for the birds, or elsewise are unworthy of their mandate.
In the past few weeks, and with your blessing, this beautiful section of the
Digby Neck has become a Mountain of Devastation. Even a late arriving robin
from its winter habitat would be hard-pressed to find the lowly earth worm
there today.
When the earth worm, the lowliest of them all,we think, is gone, we shall
surely soon follow them into extinction. A man of the Environment assuredly
can connect the dots and make that determination. That's when God, I
suppose, will blink and say to Himself: "I should have saved the worm!"
In short, you are allowing what supports created life to die. Hundreds of
aerial photos (would you like some?) attest to that. One of our uneducated
politicians at a lower level of government told us:" I don't care about the
birds!" which is to say ,"I believe not in the connectedness of all
creatures in life", and behind closed doors, hatched this scheme of
desecration. Remember, when the last earthworm is gone,so will we be, for it
is the work of that lowly creature, and it alone, which makes our earth
arable.You nor your science cannot replace that!
The final swing of the axe you throw is to come next. That is when 400'
whizzing blades
will take the last of the migratory birds not to their nesting grounds, but
to their veritable death.We lowly people who live here know that; we also
know that by the time misguided politicians have their way with us,there
will be Wind Rigs straight up and down Digby Neck! Indeed, we are not a
community of fools!
In so much as you have, and will continue in this runaway pursuit of that
which you seem not to fully understand, in proportion you will have
destroyed not only a mountain and the life that it supports, but you will
have had a hand in destroying what is left of rural community life. As sad
as it may seem- and I never thought I'd come to this- coming to the end of
ones life as age continues to overtake ones spirit, seems not such a bad
thing at all. I know that- in the current turn of events at the hands of
those we elect, the option for quality of life is very remote and slim. What
a legacy the last historians will have to write about!
So let me wish you well. I will say a manly prayer for you that you will
make manly decisions. It will be that human senses will be restored to you
and your fellows- in -power for discernment that you may anew come to be
able to tell the forest from the trees.
Daniel Mills
Digby Neck
Minister of the Environment & Fisheries
Honorable and Dear Sir:
I suppose a man who spent his life fishing on the waters has had little time
to hear the birds sing! That's not to say there aren't lots of birds
following the fishing boats and treading water on the sea, but they are
unlikely candidates for American Idol this year.Their quest is food for
their survival, and not an audience interested in their unmelodic tunes.
It is we landlubbers, who have lived next to and in the forests all our
lives, who remember the joy of hearing the chanting whip-poor-will of the
darkened skies, while all their singing cousins in the trees rest in the
beauty of his song! And then, at the very crack of dawn, will relieve him-
so as to greet each human stirring from his sleep with a new days song.
How odd it is that in a time when governments are tripping over each
other,the elected bodies of the people who are given the honoured positions
they have sought, seem to forget from whence comes their authority.
I am a simple man but not a simple fool. I was taught, and I believe, that
all authority comes from God. Perhaps you personally do not believe in God.
(Many politicans seem to behave as such.) That's OK with me. However, our
whole democratic system emanates from that foundation at its roots, and
that's what you represent to me and to my compatriots.(We may try, but
cannot compartmentalize our lives.)
Perhaps your office gives you preeminence in the overall order of creation
but only minutely so, and that just for a time. The Creator Was-Is-and Will
Always Be! It's His Order that we need seek.Otherwise, is Chaos!
The road we are on- and I can't blame you for what it is- is a most
destructive route.The attachment here, an item from today's daily newspaper,
is symptomatic of our plight. It's too bad governments have no senses, most
notably hearing and sight! Governments are deaf and blind to God's created
world. It's a great tragedy when those we elect to government can go blind
and deaf over night.
Surely someone in your branch must know that Digby Neck and Islands have
been a migratory bird route for ages, and that someone should have told you,
and your predecessors, through the years. In just the last fifteen or so
since I returned to live here, I watched massive destruction of that which
helps to keep natures balance- and that is gradually going to spin out of
control.A good scientist would agree!
Initially, I watched it clearcut of every standing tree- some not big enough
for a long fishing pole or a lengthy tooth pick. Every creature, nesting
birds included, was driven out. Where would they go? Does your Dept. provide
a new home for them? An NDP SPCA? A good and caring man, and government,
should well be for the birds, or elsewise are unworthy of their mandate.
In the past few weeks, and with your blessing, this beautiful section of the
Digby Neck has become a Mountain of Devastation. Even a late arriving robin
from its winter habitat would be hard-pressed to find the lowly earth worm
there today.
When the earth worm, the lowliest of them all,we think, is gone, we shall
surely soon follow them into extinction. A man of the Environment assuredly
can connect the dots and make that determination. That's when God, I
suppose, will blink and say to Himself: "I should have saved the worm!"
In short, you are allowing what supports created life to die. Hundreds of
aerial photos (would you like some?) attest to that. One of our uneducated
politicians at a lower level of government told us:" I don't care about the
birds!" which is to say ,"I believe not in the connectedness of all
creatures in life", and behind closed doors, hatched this scheme of
desecration. Remember, when the last earthworm is gone,so will we be, for it
is the work of that lowly creature, and it alone, which makes our earth
arable.You nor your science cannot replace that!
The final swing of the axe you throw is to come next. That is when 400'
whizzing blades
will take the last of the migratory birds not to their nesting grounds, but
to their veritable death.We lowly people who live here know that; we also
know that by the time misguided politicians have their way with us,there
will be Wind Rigs straight up and down Digby Neck! Indeed, we are not a
community of fools!
In so much as you have, and will continue in this runaway pursuit of that
which you seem not to fully understand, in proportion you will have
destroyed not only a mountain and the life that it supports, but you will
have had a hand in destroying what is left of rural community life. As sad
as it may seem- and I never thought I'd come to this- coming to the end of
ones life as age continues to overtake ones spirit, seems not such a bad
thing at all. I know that- in the current turn of events at the hands of
those we elect, the option for quality of life is very remote and slim. What
a legacy the last historians will have to write about!
So let me wish you well. I will say a manly prayer for you that you will
make manly decisions. It will be that human senses will be restored to you
and your fellows- in -power for discernment that you may anew come to be
able to tell the forest from the trees.
Daniel Mills
Digby Neck
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