Bocce Nation

I feel like such a fool. After the extraordinary weekend of great speeches and workshops all about bringing willing heads together on subjects as critical to the community health of Powell River as any that one might think of, I had this wonderful experience.

Driving to a friend's, south, I left along Marine and was headed for Westview when I noticed some folk down, over the hill on the Bocce Nation course location. I decided to pull over and check them out.

Sneaking down, I took this pic of the gathering of about eight 'twenty something?s apparently, playing bocce!

I didn't speak to them, snuck back up to 'Driftwood 2' and began heading south, into Westview.

But I began to weep and cry by myself as I drove south to Myrtle. I was crying from the happy knowledge of success for my little baby - Bocce Nation.

Here there were, on a Friday night, in the sunny weather, 8 young folk I did not know and had never played bocce with, that's fer sure, experiencing what I knew to be, a wonderful social activity. EXACTLY what I envisioned last summer when I first mowed the slope on the old Townsite Golf course property, near the old burnt down Clubhouse.

The irony of having just spent the weekend at the fabulously successful, Tapping the Groundswell meet-up did not escape me :)

ASM - head greenskeeper - Bocce Nation :)

ALERT: Bocce Nation currently seeking permission and scouting for insurance for facility. If YOU like Bocce Nation, I urge you to msg/email your support so we can show evidence that some folks like playin guerrilla bocce in Powell River!! Thank you forever!