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FOSBA Bulletin December 2024

Writer's picture: Friends of Stiillwater BluffsFriends of Stiillwater Bluffs

Updated: 3 days ago

Dear friends,


In these final moments of 2024 it’s worth reflecting on how 2024 years ago three gifts from three wise men to a baby started a trend that led to today’s consumer frenzy with all its dire effects upon the natural world.


Taking a different fork along the Christian road was Father Charles A. E. Brandt who wrote:

“We have to fall in love with the earth. We only save something if we love it, if we think it is sacred(sacramental commons). Only the sense of the sacred will save us.”


Father Charles was a monk who lived on a 27 acre hermitage on the Oyster river in the Comox valley. He took the Christian teachings of “love of all humanity” one step further to “a love of the earth” Upon his death he gave the land to the Comox Valley Regional District as a special park where one can find solitude and contemplate our relationship to the natural world. Check out this link and be sure to enjoy the short videos.

 Shouldn’t every community have such a park?



Thank you to all who volunteered to help with crisis phoning. We could use at least 10 more people to help to form an effective phone tree in the event of a threat to the Bluffs. Please reply to this bulletin.


Should you have a stash of wine or beer bottles or any other returnable container keep FOSBA in mind. Simply ask the attendant at the bottle return depot on Duncan Street to place the funds in the Friends of Stillwater Bluffs account.


Happy New Year! We raise our glasses to all of you and proclaim our wish for 2025 that it be the year the Stillwater Bluffs become a public park!


Your FOSBA directors.




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