July 26, 1971: Today, at seven minutes past two in the afternoon, a cheque from Else Andress to Tom Tate was handed over to Tom by me [in his store, The Tate Gallery] at 31 Gerrard St. W., Toronto. A sudden and violent rainstorm had been building up for the past few minutes and, at the exact moment the cheque was handed over mighty rumblings of thunder filled the nearby skies. The unexpected, loud peel of thunder suddenly reminded me of the momentousness of the occasion...for at that moment the first public anthroposophical bookstore in Canada was born into the physical world.
It represented the culmination of years of work by Else and Douglas Andress, Isobel Grieve, and Pat Kettle (who had moved to England.) These people were instrumental in organising the Steiner Book Centre some three years ago. It will now be my task to build on their fine foundation and carry the Spiritual Influence of the Anthroposophical Movement to the Canadian public through the books and lectures of Rudolf Steiner and others.
May I be equal to the task!
Tuesday, July 27: I learned today from Ginger that a worker was killed by lightning yesterday at Woodbine & Steeles, He was Ilanio Batti, 34.
Since Yonge Street will be closed off from Gerrard to Dundas for a week beginning August 12, we have decided to redouble our efforts and open our doors to the public...
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Wow, so this wasn't just Bruce's idea. Who knew that the founders of so many other local anthroposophical initiatives were also behind the Living Seed.
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