"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
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Cool
I´m trying to think what to write. I am uncomfortable in my clothes. For days, weeks now it has been too hot, too hot to the point of roasting, stifling, longing to curl up in a dark corner and block out the pounding sun. Now, within an hour of arriving in San Cristabal (there is an excellent chance this is not the way it is spelled at all) I have been cold and hot, warm and cool, bouncing from sun to shade and back again. The internet cafe is steamy, unventilated and filled with busily typing bodies, and I am shivering. I hope I am not gettng sick. I must write a travel update tonight or tomorrow (but probably tonight) and I am utterly uninspired. Could be my vocabulary is exhausted, as I am. I can´t quite believe I have nothing to say.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
The Very Life of Life
Kalidasa
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
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