I’m thankful for the amazing support that the Peace Train parliamentary petition is receiving from people across the country (Google E5126 ). I’m also thankful for the creative committed people who are organizing the Peace Train. Train is a verb. If we want peace we need to train for it!
Family and friends plus friends who have suffered worry and loss due to family members who live in Gaza; also a friend from a Middle Eastern Country who tried to claim refugee status in Canada 24 years ago but was instead accused of being a terrorist by secret immigration trials in which he could never know his accuser and is still in danger of deportation to torture or death. It has been my honour to stand by him for 17 years of that time.
I'm happy to be celebrating Thanksgiving with my family. It's an opportunity to catch up on their news. Also, I treasure all that is positive in my life including good friends and good health.
I'm somewhat surprised and relieved that the Canada Pension Plan and I both lasted long enough for a decade of benefits, although I'm haunted by many of the investments. I'm glad I survived the traumas, and learned from them. I'm quite happy with the ways I managed to push the envelope in benign technology, and in social sciences, even though the latter also tells me that my work is probably all in vain. At least I know that there is an underlying logic;, waiting to be re-discovered.
Mutual respect and unconditional love / Time with RHSJ Sisters, family and friends / The different seasons of the year / Freedom of Religion / Rainbows / Challenges / Good music / Reading books / Turtles.
As a retired adult educator in literacy and ESL, 82 years old, I am grateful for my student, a refugee from Sudan, who had absolutely no English when she arrived in the Yukon from Cairo. She and her family give my brain exercise, my aching body a reason to start another day, and the joy of a generous friendship. It is more than a reciprocal relationship.
I’m thankful for the amazing support that the Peace Train parliamentary petition is receiving from people across the country (Google E5126 ). I’m also thankful for the creative committed people who are organizing the Peace Train. Train is a verb. If we want peace we need to train for it!
Family and friends plus friends who have suffered worry and loss due to family members who live in Gaza; also a friend from a Middle Eastern Country who tried to claim refugee status in Canada 24 years ago but was instead accused of being a terrorist by secret immigration trials in which he could never know his accuser and is still in danger of deportation to torture or death. It has been my honour to stand by him for 17 years of that time.
I'm happy to be celebrating Thanksgiving with my family. It's an opportunity to catch up on their news. Also, I treasure all that is positive in my life including good friends and good health.
I'm somewhat surprised and relieved that the Canada Pension Plan and I both lasted long enough for a decade of benefits, although I'm haunted by many of the investments. I'm glad I survived the traumas, and learned from them. I'm quite happy with the ways I managed to push the envelope in benign technology, and in social sciences, even though the latter also tells me that my work is probably all in vain. At least I know that there is an underlying logic;, waiting to be re-discovered.
Mutual respect and unconditional love / Time with RHSJ Sisters, family and friends / The different seasons of the year / Freedom of Religion / Rainbows / Challenges / Good music / Reading books / Turtles.
Life, love and family.
As a retired adult educator in literacy and ESL, 82 years old, I am grateful for my student, a refugee from Sudan, who had absolutely no English when she arrived in the Yukon from Cairo. She and her family give my brain exercise, my aching body a reason to start another day, and the joy of a generous friendship. It is more than a reciprocal relationship.