Bruce's Journal - Conclusion

Monday, June 30, 1974:
Yesterday I took Tina to her sister's for the holiday weekend. She will be staying on with us until she gets accepted at Camphill. Tomorrow Eric Lockwood moves in. He wants to earn his room and board by helping in the store. He will make the move with us.
This morning I got an interesting call from Rolf Zimmermann. He still thinks I am making a mistake in buying Goldberry's, and we almost had an argument about it. He somehow thinks that Eric Foscett is trying to gyp me.
A little later Else Andress called. She had been talking with Rolf and he had told her that Goldberry's was bankrupt!!! She felt she should warn me. Somehow these two must think I am a fool. Maybe I am, but I shall certainly check over Goldberry's figures with my accountant, Mike Atlas, very carefully before I sign anything. But to think that Rolf should attempt to start such a vicious rumour!...and that Else should believe him!
Rolf of course has a financial interest in seeing me stay here. I'm selling a lot of his pills. Goldberry's, on the other hand, doesn't have much of a pill business. He sells mostly food items.
While I have Rolf and my good karma to thank for the continuance thus far of Living Seed, I think I will be well rid of his influence in the new location.

Eastertide, 1975: Much that was left hanging in last June's suspenseful entry has been resolved and the drama continues to unfold! After making a formal purchase offer to Eric Foscett in ____ [there's a blank here, for a month which I never entered in the journal] he waited until mid-August to tell me that he had decided to sell Goldberry's to two couples from the Toronto Zen Centre with no experience in the business. [My suspicion is that he got wind of my cigar smoking, and decided to clear the air. Or, could it have been Rolf???] In the meantime, Suzanne Morrison had appeared on the scene from Emerson College (she had spent a year studying and two years cooking there.) With a small inheritance she had offered to purchase Living Seed from me thereby making my down payment possible. However, since the sale fell through, she decided to stay on and help me here. I negotiated my renewal option at the same rent ($575/mo) and all seemed well.
Last week she told me that she will be leaving in September and, fortunately, yesterday Brian Patterson offered to step in and take her place sometime next August.

[The narrative of Living Seed ends at this point, and the notebook wanders off into other, non-seed matters. I want to thank all the wonderful people who stepped in, became "seedlings", and helped in so many ways to complete this adventure. Many, indeed, most, are not even mentioned here. Not to worry! Your names and deeds are irrevocably recorded in that great journal in the sky - the Akashic Record.
[To wrap it up quickly, Mr Altman died and his widow doubled my rent at the end of the lease. And the rest of the story is told in the booklet, Divine Intervention. The Living Seed was sold in late spring, 1978.