from Sheets to Ships

the harbour is full of it

When you dig you face one avoidable truth: You’re likely disturbing some shit somehow.

Much of that shit is worm shit. We compost. Our yard is full of worm shit.

That’s the shit that makes the vegetables tasty.

If you dig in the woods, there’s likely a lot of animal shit either on the forest floor, or has been processed and integrated into the soil structure.

There is shit everywhere around these parts. Even the maps can’t escape the turd torrent.

Sheet Harbour - a community nearby, when said with a terrible attempt at a french accent sounds like ‘shit’.

And the next harbour over from where my Nanny grew up? That’s Ship Harbour.

Though neither place is explicitly celebrating excrement, names like that indicate that they would if we let them. I mean really? All one would need to do is replace the pee then you would have poo.

Just down the coast you’ll find the big harbour, Halifax harbour. Given it’s sordid history, it should really be called Shit Harbour for both brevity and accuracy. Up u…