February 2012
8 posts
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
10 posts
Aimee Mullins on Adversity →
This is a TED talk from October 2009, during which Aimee Mullins discusses the opportunities that come from adversity. Please watch it!
Real Women by Hanne Blank
real women
Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought to know better.
Real women do not have curves. Real women do not look like just one thing.
Real women have curves, and not. They are tall, and not. They are brown-skinned, and olive-skinned, and not. They have small breasts, and big ones, and no breasts...
this creativity blows my mind too. →
this creativity blows my mind. →
It is FEIST DAY! →
(CBC Radio 2 is playing all the songs from Metals today to celebrate the release of her new album. yay! This itunes purchase will be the first thing I do when I get home)
September 2011
11 posts
“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
- Albert Einstein
Bullying Rhetoric I: Is "Drama" Empowering? →
A post this week in The Opinion Pages of The New York Times suggests that in order to make any impact in addressing abuse amongst children and youth, we must understand and use their language.
A Starting Point →
Laura Babcock, after a group discussion following a recent Hamilton teen’s suicide, decided to revisit the ever so complicated issue of bullying - and suggests that the first step in the right direction is a change in language and terminology. I agree, and over the course of the week I will continue to post articles from both sides of the debate. At the center of the discussion lies the...
“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion”.
- Max de Pree
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August 2011
5 posts
Jack Layton (1950 - 2011)
Dear Friends,
Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, cards and gifts. Your spirit and love have lit up my home, my spirit, and my determination.
Unfortunately my treatment has not worked out as I hoped. So I am giving this letter to my partner ...
New beginning
I was tired of the old blog design so i’ve switched things up.
I also deleted most of my blog entries. Fresh start.
I am at a “fresh start” sort of point in my life and so this goes along with that.
I haven’t quite decided what I am going to use this site for. In the past I have just re-posted things I find online, posted my own thoughts, posted photos, anything really....
November 2010
1 post
My Portfolio Assignment
Part of our final semester evaluation is based on the presentation of our portfolio assignment. We had to come up with a creative way of presenting what we have learned and how we have grown from day one of the program until now. I have attached photos below of what I did for my project. I painted a plain wooden set of stacking dolls and each doll represents a time in the program, so I can...
October 2010
2 posts
This post is not about Col. Williams.
It is about everyone really, human behavior.
I am tired of hearing things like “and he was a Colonol!”, as if his behavior would have been easier to accept were he something ordinary like a garbage man. I hope this whole “you never really know somebody” mentality — that so many have taken on due to recent events — goes both ways. If you never really know...
April 2010
4 posts
Code Red →
This is the first article in a series on the health of different neighborhoods in Hamilton. It is very, very interesting. “A 21 year difference in life expectancy separates some of our neighborhoods. A neighborhood where nearly half of all babies are born underweight. that’s three times greater than some Third World Countries. A neighborhood where 662 of every 1,000 adults have a...
