Beacon Summer 2017
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Changes and<br />
permanencies<br />
Some things change, and some<br />
things never change. So, in<br />
this column, I will be looking at<br />
the changes that I’ve seen and<br />
felt since the last Boultham Park<br />
<strong>Beacon</strong> came out.<br />
From what was felt as disharmony and<br />
disquiet has now evolved into harmony.<br />
There was a long time of apparently<br />
nothing happening, much talking and the<br />
publicity of intentions for the Park. Well,<br />
you can’t say that nothing’s happening<br />
any more, can you?<br />
Massive changes have happened<br />
already, now that Casey and their<br />
machines are all over the place working.<br />
Some things are coming down and some<br />
things going up.<br />
It’s a well-known fact that people don’t<br />
like change. So the partnership of the<br />
City of Lincoln Council and Linkage<br />
made available their intended plans<br />
through public meetings and promotions.<br />
Everything that is now happening is the<br />
actualisation of those plans, as the people<br />
that actually attended the meetings<br />
well know. As always, when thoughts are<br />
turned into actions it can be a bit of a<br />
shock, which I can’t deny I felt, also.<br />
However, what I believe to be most<br />
important is that the ‘Spirit of Boultham<br />
Park’ remains - that is the permanency.<br />
That is what many people do not notice,<br />
not necessarily through their own fault, but<br />
with the speed and stress of living in the<br />
so called modern world and the modern<br />
way of living.<br />
www.boulthampark.co.uk<br />
I’m past my sell by date and those who<br />
know me know that I prefer the old ways<br />
which are much more relaxed, slower and<br />
less complicated. So it’s relatively easy for<br />
me to switch off and be wrapped in the<br />
spirit of Boultham Park and know that in<br />
fact all is well.<br />
The spirit of Boultham<br />
Park is alive and well.<br />
If in doubt? Try just sitting quietly when<br />
not many are about or by the lake,<br />
especially on a moon and star-lit night.<br />
Close your eyes and relax your racing<br />
mind and become still, both inwardly and<br />
outwardly, and you will feel it. Maybe only<br />
fleeting glimpses at first, but subtly, almost<br />
indiscernibly. If you do it often you will<br />
become part of it and it part of you.<br />
The spirit of Boultham Park is alive and<br />
well as it has always been. Beats paying<br />
money for the various relaxation and stress<br />
release classes that seem to be thriving<br />
with an ever-increasing demand.<br />
The best things in life are free.<br />
John Pye<br />
Chair of the Boultham Park Advisory Group<br />
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