AN ATLANTIC COMMUNITY

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025

Saint John/New Brunswick

For most of us, the day is broken up into three parts – morning, afternoon, and evening.  How one initiates the day with a certain mindset impacts the rest of the day.  If my tone in the morning is one of adventure, anticipation, gratitude, welcoming, and meditative, it will likely carry throughout the rest of the day.

On that note of optimism, four of us, including Pierre, a local man of skill, integrity, and optimism, met at Irving Nature Park an immaculately maintained piece of green, mostly fir, spruce, and pine trees that perfume the atmosphere.  The Atlantic waters border the space and engulf a marshy, muddy area at high and low tide, exposing salty mud, or concealing it.  The 7-kilometre trail was our walking for reflecting and talking.

At 2 PM, Nityananda and I headed for the Memorial Public Gardens where a ceremony of honour was held by the Royal Canadian Legion veterans.  Today is Remembrance Day/Memorial Day, in fact, a time when people wear their poppies on their shirt or coat lapel to remember the sacrificial heroes of past wars when there were serious conflicts over freedom.  I took a wreath, like others, and lay it down by the Memorial Plaque.  I met some of the legion members – nice old-school gentlemen, as well as a chaplain.  He seemed to know of Krishna. 

Evening was sweet.  Nakula, his wife, Sara, Nityananda, and I went to visit a very amiable fellow, who is doing a lot of work for the local community.  He’s a ‘people’s man’.  We enjoyed dinner together at his home, chatted, and sang mantras.

Good reflection!  Good day!  A day for the people.

MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU

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