My body is still fighting off a virus and I am getting tired of being sick. Tonight will be the sixth yoga class is a row I have missed because I haven't felt 100%. However, I will not complain. I know that I will be better soon.
So, what's new with everyone out there?
I was having a discussion with someone yesterday. He gets so upset because he thinks that about 80% of Canadian voters don't have a clue about anything. They smoke yet they know what it does to them (Some even deny that there is not proof that smoking causes health problems). They justify driving their cars and do not recognize that doing so is causing greenhouse gases and affecting the weather of the world. And, they believe what ads and commercials tell them. He believes that those voters are making the world a worse place to live in.
While I do believe that many people out there are selfish in these beliefs, I also believe that sitting around getting angry about it doesn't prove anything. Neither does violence. Instead of getting upset about it, I told him, perhaps he should focus that anger into living to set an example. People don't like being told what to do but if they see a good example of a person living a life that is good for the environment and health care system, they can definitely see that things actually DO work.
No one is perfect. The human species has faults and there is nothing any of us can do to change that.
As we're on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, and the White House has slapped Sinn Fein in the face by not inviting Gerry Adams to the festivities, I wanted to tell you about a CBC documentary that I watched yesterday. It was entitled Neutral Ground and documented a program in which 11- & 12-year old Irish children from both Catholic and Protestant backgrounds were brought to New Brunswick, Canada to have a month holiday, away from the violence that they see every day. It was a bittersweet look of how these children came together and in some case befriended each other in a way that they would never have done before. It also touched on the subject of what happens when they return, even interviewing some of the past members of this program which in many of the cases, was not promising.
I have had many conversations on this subject with people both inside and outside of the UK and it saddens me that these children grow up with violence in their everyday lives. We are sheltered from this, for the most part, in Canada so we have no experience to understand the situation there. I wish that all sides could get themselves together and rid themselves of this hate and I know that this can be acheived. If it takes a program like this to at least plant the seed of hope, then so be it.
Anyway, I hope that this St. Patrick's Day is one of hope. Even though Mr. Bush seems intent in stirring up the pot.
So, what's new with everyone out there?
I was having a discussion with someone yesterday. He gets so upset because he thinks that about 80% of Canadian voters don't have a clue about anything. They smoke yet they know what it does to them (Some even deny that there is not proof that smoking causes health problems). They justify driving their cars and do not recognize that doing so is causing greenhouse gases and affecting the weather of the world. And, they believe what ads and commercials tell them. He believes that those voters are making the world a worse place to live in.
While I do believe that many people out there are selfish in these beliefs, I also believe that sitting around getting angry about it doesn't prove anything. Neither does violence. Instead of getting upset about it, I told him, perhaps he should focus that anger into living to set an example. People don't like being told what to do but if they see a good example of a person living a life that is good for the environment and health care system, they can definitely see that things actually DO work.
No one is perfect. The human species has faults and there is nothing any of us can do to change that.
As we're on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, and the White House has slapped Sinn Fein in the face by not inviting Gerry Adams to the festivities, I wanted to tell you about a CBC documentary that I watched yesterday. It was entitled Neutral Ground and documented a program in which 11- & 12-year old Irish children from both Catholic and Protestant backgrounds were brought to New Brunswick, Canada to have a month holiday, away from the violence that they see every day. It was a bittersweet look of how these children came together and in some case befriended each other in a way that they would never have done before. It also touched on the subject of what happens when they return, even interviewing some of the past members of this program which in many of the cases, was not promising.
I have had many conversations on this subject with people both inside and outside of the UK and it saddens me that these children grow up with violence in their everyday lives. We are sheltered from this, for the most part, in Canada so we have no experience to understand the situation there. I wish that all sides could get themselves together and rid themselves of this hate and I know that this can be acheived. If it takes a program like this to at least plant the seed of hope, then so be it.
Anyway, I hope that this St. Patrick's Day is one of hope. Even though Mr. Bush seems intent in stirring up the pot.
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