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if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!this week, prime minister stephen harper will issue an official apology about the abuse that happened during canada’s apartheid time, when for decades, first nations (aboriginal) children were taken away from their families and boarded in residential schools where […]

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the other day i found a little post on resonant enigma’s about reverence. these words here are inspired by this; in fact, it’s a slightly rewritten excerpt of a paper i wrote quite a few years ago in a course on environmental philosophy. here it is:
my great-aunt mathilde had lots of books, but […]

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alexander over at planet thoughts asks, “what’s your pet enviro peeve”? what a great question!
i’ve left a comment there (hope it’s approved by now) about plastic bags at the supermarket.
another one of mine is public transit. coming from europe, and having lived in south america, i’m used to public transit in all shapes […]

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in last week’s frozen pea friday post - the weekly post about people dealing with cancer, inspired by susan reynolds and my friends who are dealing with cancer - we alluded to the difficulty of paying for the necessary care needed for people living with cancer. this immediately led me to thinking about the […]

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still in the spirit of poetry month, an excerpt from ernesto cardenal’s versos del pluriverso (verses from the pluriverse):
if there is an endless number of worlds, they say,
there is also a world where napoleon won the battle of waterloo.
and a world where she requited my love, in granada.
but these worlds and ours will never find […]

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a friend of mine sent me this for earth day:
* 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
* act locally
* notice the workings of power & privilege […]

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a while ago, alex shalman interviewed 34 people on the subject of happiness. following up on this, he created the happiness project, a group writing project where everyone who wishes answers questions about what happiness is for them. these posts then are gathered on his blog, here.
below are my answers. and if you’d […]

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hello friends, and welcome to the march edition of the buddhist carnival.
free tibet
this is written while monks in tibet are asking/fighting/praying/protesting for a tibet that is free from occupation. after all, when we do metta, we say, “may all beings be happy, may all beings be healthy, may all beings be free.”
danny fisher, an […]

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today, the appeal division of the national parole board overturned a board panel’s decision to deny robert latimer day parole. latimer, who has served seven years of a life sentence for killing his severely disabled daughter, will soon be released to a half-way house.
here are a few blog reactions to this.
what are your thoughts?
at the […]

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today is international stand up to bullying day.  students and lots of other people all across canada and the world wear pink to mark the day.

last year, two students in nova scotia (canada’s east coast) donned and distributed pink shirts after a classmate fell victim to homophobic bullying for wearing pink to school.
this became […]

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yesterday at the meditation meetup, we watched a film, doing time, doing vipassana – a moving documentary of how meditation can change life in prison.
this is the story of an ancient meditation technique named vipassana, which shows people how to take control of their lives and channel them toward their own good. it is the […]

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you may remember that a little while ago, i participated in the compassion project put together by the three monks. we were all asked about presenting our unique thoughts, definitions and views of compassion. i wrote about compassion and social media.
this group writing project has come to an end. i’d like to […]

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there have been times when i’ve pointed out the sometimes not-so-stellar record of our police. this post here about the sad story of frank paul could be another one. frank paul was a first nations man who lived here in vancouver. “lived” not in the sense that most of us do; […]

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a few years ago on easter, first united church in vancouver’s downtown eastside carried a cross through the neighbourhood. it was a big, simple cross – and there were needles stuck all over it. the christ of the drug addicts. an image i will never forget.
there is much about the message of […]

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