Good gosh, it is the 6th of October already, and I am back home, which is suddenly filled with university students basking in the join of 3 full days off... even if they are spent in Stratford!
Hope you all have a wonderful, pumpkin pie filled weekend!
Be Grateful. I know I am.
Love,
Nel
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007
Couplets Late September
Couplets Late September
By: David Wevill
The geese are beginning to fly south
the snows and the canadas.
My twenty-first autumn in this house.
Their cries are the only sound
between the earth and the sun.
It is the cry with no home--
time is their wilderness
Time is this house. My home
is a direction I haven't taken, where
memory is, waits
bien e tan mesurado
With dignity and restraint
for someone else to come
who is no one and needs nothing.
I envy that man, woman, child, thing
who is without identity
whose hands play with the wind, uttering cries
that echo off nothing human.
By: David Wevill
The geese are beginning to fly south
the snows and the canadas.
My twenty-first autumn in this house.
Their cries are the only sound
between the earth and the sun.
It is the cry with no home--
time is their wilderness
Time is this house. My home
is a direction I haven't taken, where
memory is, waits
bien e tan mesurado
With dignity and restraint
for someone else to come
who is no one and needs nothing.
I envy that man, woman, child, thing
who is without identity
whose hands play with the wind, uttering cries
that echo off nothing human.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Sunday, September 9, 2007
How To Build a Global Community
--Think of no one as "Them"
--Don't confuse your comfort with your safety
--Talk to strangers
--Imagine other cultures through their poetry and novels
--Listen to music you don't understand --Dance to it
--Act locally
--Notice the workings of power and privilege in your culture
--Question consumption
--Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown: wake up and smell the exploitation
--Look for fair trade and union labels
--Help build economies from the bottom up
--Acquire few needs
--Learn a second (or third) language
--Visit people, places and cultures... not tourist attractions
--Learn people's history --Redefine the progress
--Know physical and political geography
--Play games from other cultures
--Watch films with subtitles
--Know your heritage
--Honour everyone's holidays
--Look at the moon and image someone else, somewhere else, looking at it too
--Read the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights
--Understand the global economy in terms of people, land and water
--Know where your bank banks
--Never believe you have the right to anyone else's resources
--Refuse to wear corporate logos; defy corporate domination
--Question military/corporate connections
--Don't confuse money with wealth, or time with money
--Have a pen/email pal
--Honour indigenous culures
--Judge governance by how well it meets its people's needs
--Be skeptical about what you read
--Eat adventurously --Enjoy vegetables, beans and grains in your diet
--Choose curiousity over certainty
--Know where your water comes from and where your waste goes
-- Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism
--Think South, Central, and Northern... there are many Americans
--Assume that many others share your dreams
--Know that no one is silent, though many are not heard
--Work to change this
--Don't confuse your comfort with your safety
--Talk to strangers
--Imagine other cultures through their poetry and novels
--Listen to music you don't understand --Dance to it
--Act locally
--Notice the workings of power and privilege in your culture
--Question consumption
--Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown: wake up and smell the exploitation
--Look for fair trade and union labels
--Help build economies from the bottom up
--Acquire few needs
--Learn a second (or third) language
--Visit people, places and cultures... not tourist attractions
--Learn people's history --Redefine the progress
--Know physical and political geography
--Play games from other cultures
--Watch films with subtitles
--Know your heritage
--Honour everyone's holidays
--Look at the moon and image someone else, somewhere else, looking at it too
--Read the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights
--Understand the global economy in terms of people, land and water
--Know where your bank banks
--Never believe you have the right to anyone else's resources
--Refuse to wear corporate logos; defy corporate domination
--Question military/corporate connections
--Don't confuse money with wealth, or time with money
--Have a pen/email pal
--Honour indigenous culures
--Judge governance by how well it meets its people's needs
--Be skeptical about what you read
--Eat adventurously --Enjoy vegetables, beans and grains in your diet
--Choose curiousity over certainty
--Know where your water comes from and where your waste goes
-- Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism
--Think South, Central, and Northern... there are many Americans
--Assume that many others share your dreams
--Know that no one is silent, though many are not heard
--Work to change this
Lab Cab Day
So another lightening-quick show/rehearsal/performance, and all went well though I felt a little hazy about my piece... odd considering I wrote it. My vote is no more white clothes. Next time all orange. Okay, maybe not, but still...
BUY A T-SHIRT!
They are awesome and you know you want one. I want one. In fact I may buy two.
Speaking of rehearsal (two paragraphs ago) I copied this down from a poster at the St. Christopher House, because I thought it was pretty fantastic. So because it took me forever to write down I may as well share it right, right?
I shall put it in a seperate entry. Bye now!
N.
BUY A T-SHIRT!
They are awesome and you know you want one. I want one. In fact I may buy two.
Speaking of rehearsal (two paragraphs ago) I copied this down from a poster at the St. Christopher House, because I thought it was pretty fantastic. So because it took me forever to write down I may as well share it right, right?
I shall put it in a seperate entry. Bye now!
N.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Explore.Dream.Discover
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Official Statement of Multiculturalism
From the House of Commons, 1971
"It was the view of the Royal Commission (Royal Commission on Bilingualism and biculturalism) shared by the government and, I am sure by all Canadians, that there cannot be one cultural policy for Canadians of British and French origin, another for the original people and yet another for all others. For although there are two official languages, there is no official culture, nor does any ethnic group take precedence over any other, no citizen or group of citizens is other than Canadian, and all should be treated fairly."
Trudeau
This quote is on display on a peculiar statue in front of Union Station. I recommend everyone go and read it-- we cannot be reminded often enough.
"It was the view of the Royal Commission (Royal Commission on Bilingualism and biculturalism) shared by the government and, I am sure by all Canadians, that there cannot be one cultural policy for Canadians of British and French origin, another for the original people and yet another for all others. For although there are two official languages, there is no official culture, nor does any ethnic group take precedence over any other, no citizen or group of citizens is other than Canadian, and all should be treated fairly."
Trudeau
This quote is on display on a peculiar statue in front of Union Station. I recommend everyone go and read it-- we cannot be reminded often enough.
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