FESTIVAL IN THE COVE

A great big round of applause for those who participated in or attended the Festival in the Cove on Aug. 20 and 21st! It was a great start to what is sure to be an interesting and fun annual event. We had an artisan and flea market, Scouts were there with a BBQ, karaoke was a fun evening event and followed up the following day with an awe-inspiring author's reading and drum circle. Thanks go out to Danny, Debbie and Davey, Shirley, Mabel, Trisha, Pat and Joanna, Basma, Sheila and Harold, the summer crew from the States, Mac Bisop for use of the school, Kristy for helping, CJLS which paid us a visit and left snacks, Wayne and company and each and every person who came to the event.
THEY SAID IT COULDNT BE DONE!! We showed 'em. We showed em that a festival on Digby Neck CAN happen, it can be successful, and it can be done with a good spirit.
Looking ahead to the next year, we hope to improve upon the last and keep doing so every year. This was the first year. And nothing will be perfect in the second year. Or the third. Or more. Imperfection is normal, and it takes getting used to when you see it in others (smile). It is a fallacy to think that any event will be perfect when it involves the participation of any other people, and each one of us has a different view of what is perfect, and there will always be someone who says it wasn't perfect-according to them.
But perfect can be the establishment of a festival on the Neck. Perfect can mean that more than one person had a table at the market. Perfect, or more than perfect, can mean that 20 people went to karaoke! Perfect can mean the image-evoking words- in public- of a young person who said she was too shy to do this and yet did, perfect can mean the echo of your heartbeat in an African drum, and perfect can mean the happy smile of a Scout just barely clearing the top of the counter where he was serving refreshments to visitors. Perfect was the generousity of a walking stick carver when he gave away his creative work at the end of the day, and perfect was the generousity of the hookers who took the time to talk about their work and show it, when some weren't even selling it, and perfect was the ease with which both particpants and visitors spoke, joked and laughed with each other and began to build relationships- I saw their smiles, I saw them talking with each other and laughing and I saw people buying each others' work or items for sale.
I SAW THIS EVENT AS PERFECT! It all depends on what "place" you are coming from.
Many many thanks to all of you!! from, I believe, many of us.
Kathleen
Onwards and upwards to next year!!