Fields of Formation (the 5th Fountain): The Fountains, #5

By Robert Koyich

Fields of Formation is the 5th Fountain and the second part of the three-part book The Sands of Yesterday.  The non-fiction exposition holds a few chapters written to specific individuals who influenced Rob in 2017-2018, and though it was challenging to complete the book, Rob endured.  With 100% of this book's earnings going to Pencils of Promise, commitments are made and kept as The Fountains continue to develop and evolve.  With a wish of Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect, please enjoy this book and know your contribution by purchasing it is going towards providing education and sanitation for children abroad who appreciate the support. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Introversial
• Release date: Jan 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781989180075

Robert Koyich

Robert is located in Chilliwack, B.C., Canada.  He began two charitable initiatives: Providing Point that supplies reloadable grocery cards, and Chilliwack Housing Providers aiming to house people by providing rent subsidies.  The Fountains are his primary project and are closely linked to both programs.  If you would like to sign up for the Introvesial newsletter, please visit https://mailchi.mp/robertkoyich/introversial.  By signing up for the newsletter, you gain access to the digital version of Rob's book Fragments of Intent, The First Three Fountains.  

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DEDICATION

100% of Fields of Formation’s earnings go to Pencils of Promise.  Please visit PencilsofPromise.org to view the program.

CONTENTS

Fields of Formation, the 5th Fountain

It’s Not All about Me!

A Brief Trickle of Insight

Dive a Bit Deeper

A Need to Reveal

Across for the Tapestry

Now, What?

A Beautiful Idea

Let’s Write This Here

Community and Consect

A Fragile Balance

A Neurotic Bundle of Wonder

Acknowledgments

About the Author

It’s Not All about Me!

May 11th, 2017 12:11 AM

We have started the journey of the Seed.  It’s a long, arduous process, though as we develop, the clarity of my heart and mind solidify.

I found a crucial variable for the Seed Fund and Providing Point’s work in Chilliwack.  Chilliwack has a population of 101,512 people, and from a March 2017 report, 221 people were homeless; up from 73 people counted as homeless in 2014.  If, as discussed in Seeds of Tomorrow, an individual Yearly Seed covers rent, utilities, $50/week food, and also a bus pass each month, we can calculate some numbers. 

The magic number for a Yearly Seed is $15,128 per year.  The objective is Full Seed to cover all those in need.  In the 2016 Census, there were 45,755 employed people, including part-time employees at that point in Chilliwack.  Taking the $4.538 million required for 300 Yearly Seeds divided by 45,755 working people, that’s $99 per person per year, yet if we make the numbers kinder, that’s $8.27 per month. 

One hour of paid earnings per working person, even at minimum wage, is more than enough to shelter, feed, and allow transportation for all the people currently in need without a home. 

Karen is right, though, some people choose to be homeless.  Some value the freedom of obligation and the luxury of not being fixed to a specific place.  Some others, though, may wish to have a home and food and don’t have that at this point.  The work of the Seed Fund is to help those who need and want help. 

If we’re to ‘solve’ the situation, it requires a unified effort.  To do so, we’ll need to work together, though many people may not understand poverty.  I’m not clear that I entirely do either.  Being on welfare or PWD (disability) is a gracious blessing, and I’m glad for it.  It’s a system that allows people a chance to live, even if not at a super prosperous level. 

Some people have firm anger that the government gives tax dollars to welfare or disability people that ‘don’t want to work.’  I also have a strong intuition that there are many facts of those in poverty or lack that many of us don’t know. 

For the regulations of welfare (not PWD) in British Columbia, as of September 20th, 2017, the support rate for an individual is $335 per month plus a potential shelter portion of $375. 

I don’t know how much rent costs in your community, though think of this shelter portion quickly.  Where can a person live by paying only $375 per month to rent?  It isn’t rational to expect someone to find a decent and safe home for $375/month.  Even if we combine the support portion of $335 with the shelter portion and a person can find a place to live for $710 per month, where will there be money for food or anything else? 

If people can cover shelter and food from their welfare cheque (which isn’t rational with $710 a month), what of anything else that a person would like to have?  Basic toiletries?  Bus fare?  Clothing?  This $710 a month isn’t enough for a person to live appropriately.

Seeds of Tomorrow (The 4th Fountain) is where I started sharing my vision about the Seed Fund, yet the idea is compounding further in my awareness.  It’s not rational at this point to think that we’ll house and feed all the people in the local community with only my books, let alone expand outwards and help others on Earth.  My faith and fear blend as I think the Seed Fund is a great thing, yet at this point, I can’t imagine how to perform well with the program entirely on my own. 

One hour per month of paid earnings from each employed person in our local community can house every current homeless person in our town, yet many would laugh at this idea.  I support the concept of a basic living wage or universal care, though I’m not foolish or naïve enough to believe all others will too.  It almost seems sometimes like an exceptionally rare few do. 

I was not born in the town I live in now.  I was removed from Vancouver in 2002 because of my drug use and a lot of unforgivable actions.  I went through psychosis, shock therapy, and rehabilitation, and a decade and a half after being ejected and landing in Chilliwack, I’m still wary of my placement in this town. 

I was not born in Chilliwack, and sometimes I get apprehensive about my projected fears of not being welcome in this town.  It’s not my town, though I still hope and wish to be granted continued grace to help this community. 

I’ve had concerns that some people, even friends, are angry with me for being too ambitious and making promises while not achieving much.  This frustration is logical to me with some of how I’ve been.  I’ve been living free when some others have to work jobs they hate. 

I have had an extremely adverse reaction to structured employment both mentally and emotionally in the past.  I’ve demonstrated a running history of not lasting more than 6-9 months at a job before getting fired or quitting before I get fired.  I may be a bit too wild and free because I feel like a caged animal when I’m trapped or locked up in a job.  My value of freedom is exceptionally high, and perhaps a bit too high.

As we track and journal the process of our Freedom Solution, the books are one of the most crucial tools with which I have to work.  They are actively centred and stemmed from my self-obsessive viewpoint, and though there’s not yet a vast readership, I have faith that we make necessary contacts and connections.

There’s an apparent social component from what I write in these books.  I’ve found I want people to read the printed copies of the first few books, even if free.  I’ve also seen myself overly money focused while not feeling comfortable pushing for sales. 

I love having resources and not just those I can share.  I want to build a home and have a car again, yet I still think the truth is I assure my prosperity by providing for others.  My ideal personal expenses for the next few years do not yet require me to have big money, yet as I set aside my wants and let myself work for others, I have a belief we shall earn a lot.

I’ve heard from some online people, and I agree by faith and experience, that when we focus on other people’s needs and wants, we often find joy, freedom, and prosperity by focusing on such.  Although not the topic of this chapter, I recommend people finding their pathways and remember the wealth they have in different parts of their life; time, connection, and ability.  These things should be cultivated, shared, and appreciated as a way to shift from lack into security and abundance.

I also wonder now, is what I share