Where to from here -
I've been saying Seamus was full of hot air for years and as it turns out, I was right... kind of.
I was just talking about the wrong Seamus. Vulcan Minerals Inc. recently confirmed that they've encountered "gas shows" in Parsons Pond and that they plan to test the well, Seamus No. 1, later in the summer. Gas shows? Gas! I've never been this thrilled to hear about gas in my life. Gas. Is. Awesome news.
And Lord knows the Northern Peninsula could use some good news after decades of misery and hardship. I would happily banish the words 'moratorium' and 'out migration' from my vocabulary, along with 'amalgamation' and 'overdraft'. We've surpassed the usage quota on these words up and down the coast anyway. I bid them fairwell and good riddance! Instead, I would like them to be replaced with words like 'flourishing', 'surplus', 'independent' and 'proud'. It's time for something good to happen and it will. I'm so certain of it that I've started worrying about possible complications already. That's what it's like for me, I get real excited and immediately start stressing about the things that could go wrong. You can never be too prepared when wealth is concerned, contingency plans A through Z are completely necessary. 'Cause there will be no time to consider things when they start happening, there never is. That's why they call it a boom. It happens fast and I'd rather not blow our second chance. There aren't an infinite number of chances so let's mentally brace ourselves for what might be good fortune as there are a number of things to avoid when you're making it big.
Things to avoid when you're making it big (like people will have jobs and the kids will have playgrounds and theatres and streetlights and festivals big):
Subdivisions
Do exactly what they claim to do, they subdivide. They subdivide everyone into cardboard cutout, poorly built, pastel houses based on your income. Segregating people based on their annual gross is not a problem we've ever had on the Northern Peninsula and I would prefer if we never have it. I was horrified when I learned that mobile homeowners were forced to live in "trailer parks" on the outskirts of town. I spent some time babysitting in said "parks" and it wasn't as pleasant as the name might have you believe. It was in fact isolating and lonely, as if people in houses didn't want you living beside them. This divisive act leads to alienating neighbourhoods and impedes community development and growth. Plus, subdivisions are boring. All the houses are the same. It's creepy. And they're very rarely made with any respectable material or skill. So let's just keep doing what we've been doing, live wherever you want in whatever you want. It's a good system.
Wal-Mart
Is a corporation designed to sell you cheap shit you don't need that will undoubtedly break moments after you lose the receipt. They will force every independent retailer in the area out of business and support global oppression of underdeveloped nations. Inviting Wal-mart into a community is like demanding eleven year old Chahaya in Jakarta work sixteen hours a day for pennies a week so you can save ten bucks on a crappy portable dvd player. Hardly seems fair, does it? And if you really need that crappy portable dvd player, if it's going to drastically improve the quality of your life and you need that ten bucks for food...then go to a Wal-Mart that already exists and buy it. No Wal-marts on the Pen, please.
It's not like you're never going to go to Corner Brook again after Seamus gets gassy.
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