Further Rumination.

I sit down at the computer with a couple of concerns this morning. I may have damaged my key board.

Yesterday it wasn't spacing the way I wanted. I would hit the key to double space and it did. Then when I had to hit the edit and compose keys, it came back to single spacing every time.

As always, I thought about what I was doing wrong. Didn't take long to come up with a reason. I was hitting the keys harder every time it failed to maintain doublespace.

I may have damaged the keyboard. I will not know until I finish this post and click to publish.

My second concern is a thought process. I received a comment on Remembrance Day critical of Councillor Wendy Gaertner. I published it. Then I started to think about how I should start the new term of office and decided to be more circumspect. I wrote a post about that.

Then Chris Watts wrote a post about how looney it is to try to define a blog.Chris is a professional in the field. Light years ahead of me and at the same time several generations behind.I'm trying to shed inhibitions from an age which he has never known.

Then I received a simple respectful query from the person whose comment I published then deleted. Also a person several generations behind me.

I thought I had a rationale. Now I'm the one doing the questioning.

When the blog started, I had no idea how it would evolve. I was as interested as anyone watching how it did.

Then we had an election. A new Council. I thought maybe I should exercise some control. I was thinking about the working relationship.

Now that idea is challenged. I may be the one out-of-step. Relations on the last Council were not improved by the Blog. The blog emerged from the situation.

I thought Council realizing the community was being made aware of goings on would govern themselves accordingly.

They didn't.

Instead they spent four years seeking ways to stop the community from becoming aware. When that didn't work they reverted to denying the reality.They spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars to support their denials.

I never understood why they didn't understand that people are entitled to know what's going on. The Blog provided that and like myself, people latched on to the opportunity to engage.

It's not that much different to how it used to be when the town hall was on Yonge Street, shops on either side and across the street and people getting the word with their morning coffee and chat swirling out in ever-widening circles.

Social media has turned us back into a tight-knit community we once were.It wasn't controlled then. Why should it be now?

Councillor Gaertner has already declared she will play a different role during this term of office. Her intention is to challenge what she reads in the media. She has already thrown down the gauntlet.

There are those among us who suspect her real intention is to continue to allow herself to be used as she has for the past seven years.

Gordon Barnes sent out a clarion call for a COY group to be established and meet regularly to discuss town politics.It may be the same group as D. Moore.

At the Special Meeting to deal with a request for a re-count,signs were, outgoing Councillors and friends are having a hard time accepting the results of the election. They may even be seeking a means to undermine it.

So we ask... is this a time for blog to become magisterial? or anything else it isn't?

Probably not.

The comment I published ,then deleted, was subsequently published on the Citizen. It related to Wendy's Chatty Cathy conduct at the Cenotaph when wreaths were being laid and respectful silence observed...even by chuldren present.

On second thought,since Wendy has already thrown down the gauntlet and undoubtedly will have help, we will allow blog to go back to its natural order.

We will tell all.