tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23809100081523205072024-02-22T11:08:24.215-05:00MY MAGNIFICENT LIFEFOR THE LOVE OF STORYTELLING...
snippets from my lifeToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.comBlogger347125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-66912006594531004452021-12-26T08:07:00.017-05:002022-01-06T09:13:10.861-05:00Christmas Day 2021 Make it your Goal to be The Game Changer of Your Life<p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I am writing my year end blog earlier because I want to bask in the spirit of Christmas as I write. It is a time for giving and receiving, the goodwill surrounding the season in homes everywhere. My first draft of this blog post was scrapped. Instead I chose to write more lightheartedly and look at my blessings rather than my losses. </span></div><p style="text-align: left;">Christmas morning I woke up with feelings of gratitude and blessings. There is so much to be grateful for beginning with my sister Rose who was not only moved out ICU after being in a medically induced coma after getting Covid but she was discharged from the hospital days before Christmas. I have a lovely home and wake up to a loving family.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiJFB9cRtP1yMaDOuTw31AacxNtIDxZ0XmP4hT2SVU2g8Y405d8sNIupAyGTL76gxxQk_14DVwgrXJVpYQbx8-W2Gol2kQK6acDjYq5uNaxM5ybqPsvfp7PVvUPmpe5m1LWY1F34KX7Py8kFaCiZx5jKDoj1TJUprvQ6JunQ3-NDujBD1AxHsqn09ICQ=s2048" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiJFB9cRtP1yMaDOuTw31AacxNtIDxZ0XmP4hT2SVU2g8Y405d8sNIupAyGTL76gxxQk_14DVwgrXJVpYQbx8-W2Gol2kQK6acDjYq5uNaxM5ybqPsvfp7PVvUPmpe5m1LWY1F34KX7Py8kFaCiZx5jKDoj1TJUprvQ6JunQ3-NDujBD1AxHsqn09ICQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Rose meeting Minister Carolyn Bennett</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Here is a fun fact you may or may not know about me. I have aphantasia which simply means I cannot form images in my mind of objects that are not in front of me. When I close my eyes and try to imagine an image, all I'm left with is darkness. The ability to create images in your mind is an ability that at least 99% of the population takes for granted because they don't know there are people like me in the world same as I had no idea that the majority of humans could form images in their mind. Some can even can hear music or if they think of something like cinnamon or an orange they can actually smell it in their mind. Wow! </p><p style="text-align: left;">I only discovered this about myself recently and It blew my mind. I discovered that the majority of the people in the world have the ability to create an image of the ball in their mind, they can make it red blue white or whatever color they want. Try it. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Because I can't rely on visual images in my mind, to remember people's faces or places my<u> felt perception</u> is enhanced, I feel deeply.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I have a picture of my late older brother Samuel Rossi on my iPhone because I cannot create an image of him in my mind I can however create the feeling I have when I saw him. When I discovered this about myself it made a lot of sense. It is the reason my sense of felt perception is so developed. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> As a writer I draw from my memory of felt perception. I am intrigued by this about myself, and when I first learned about it I asked friends if they could hold an image in thier mind. </p><p style="text-align: left;">In 2021 I began a remarkable journey of growth and transformation after enrolling in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btc_Hib_Gns" target="_blank">leadership course with Unstoppable conversation</a>s. Thank you Tony Kevin, Vik, and Tanyss. I got my life out of taking the course. I discovered how to show up in my life as large and stop living small, letting go of my ego. I discovered words like integrity and authenticity matters. I discovered how to recognize when I am out of integrity when my ego was running me. I further discovered, , people's unexpressed expectations of me are mine to fulfill, That concept I admit was difficult to comprehend! how could I be responsible for that!!! </p><p style="text-align: left;">After graduating twice from Being a leader I created a context that included what is possible for me to step into a created life with purpose, something bigger than me. This is a game changer. I founded a charitable foundation to transform lives. Imagine a world created without obstacles or your limited beliefs holding you back because of fear of the unknown. Imagine what you can achieve. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The biggest breakthrough for me was the discovery that I didn't have to be right and that if I was open to possibilities it would allow me to see choices that would be not otherwise be obvious. The discovery that I had aphantasia allowed me to be accepting and understand who I am. More importantly it gave me insight to the fact that we never know what other people's limitation or special gifts are, because we don't know what we don't know.</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggpGOsRb6bLrAAa5Wu8HMqapmRAfyEAZCx6YeKYT0r4Z6lixPv4zGy4kc8xbNRKV0hD6Wduvs2PoYbWJp01vM1o8IaWonP9zT_f2etFL_-NePb0_w3oTR1EMCuslVXC2mvcQN8pTdF-yCW_V4r-3O7yFh1A4dkaYIeuV5eHhz3c2q-mBmrahYUrvW1ww=s2016" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggpGOsRb6bLrAAa5Wu8HMqapmRAfyEAZCx6YeKYT0r4Z6lixPv4zGy4kc8xbNRKV0hD6Wduvs2PoYbWJp01vM1o8IaWonP9zT_f2etFL_-NePb0_w3oTR1EMCuslVXC2mvcQN8pTdF-yCW_V4r-3O7yFh1A4dkaYIeuV5eHhz3c2q-mBmrahYUrvW1ww=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chewy about to rip his Christmas present open!</td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;">My intention in 2022 is not about losing weight although I could stand to lose a few pounds, it is not about exercising more. I could do more of that too. My intention, my goal for 2022 is to not live small, to show up in my life because my actions matter and the people in my life deserve to see the very best version of myself. <span style="color: #333333;"> The next Being a Leader course starts in January 2022. If your interested in creating the best life for yourself connect with </span><span style="color: #333333;">Tanyss Munrotanyssmunro@gmail.com (250) 305-4848 Pacific time. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><div><div><span style="color: #333333;">In 2022 I will continue my journey of growth and transformation, particularly as it pertains to the foundation <a href="https://seventhgift.ca/about/" target="_blank">Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training.</a> (G.I.F.T) It is a journey of realizing our vision of healthy Indigenous communities. across Canada. I’m really excited about the possibilities known and unknown, for an extraordinary foundation with capabilities to be a game changer. Thank you for your support and confidence in me as founder of G.I.F.T. </span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"> <br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> From my home to your home Happy New Year! </p></blockquote><p><br /><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEZC0K96qGzza5Xl0_0sDqLVYsO3wgnr6rcRV0ecrAMZlY037ClakIcViPareklz2NQFKsZDzrXOJgCwMYADkFGfa17_PbLuMBYFGn3V2K1ZWASvgkgvpB---XlJUx6--WoTInOiU-XK6OCqspba__Fxncl2EKtH1TOZHSDiVWLLAO7KL80EDtwGhoag=s640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEZC0K96qGzza5Xl0_0sDqLVYsO3wgnr6rcRV0ecrAMZlY037ClakIcViPareklz2NQFKsZDzrXOJgCwMYADkFGfa17_PbLuMBYFGn3V2K1ZWASvgkgvpB---XlJUx6--WoTInOiU-XK6OCqspba__Fxncl2EKtH1TOZHSDiVWLLAO7KL80EDtwGhoag=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hubby Alan way across the room opening a present!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2DmFpdoGW5ntKyyHSAeluBlFZ3heKUULwWHhgjrBUYRGeXmIy882IzpkIhgZmxQDujvsaElSndjKHmDNY5Y9BTv8YwMFsXY6FBhKigOxgPFxG8b6jLS-mENlDVqvKJpwojSqljM-JEaGozd6tFAFYNKbdtZM9L6LUglr6PL3SfJqAgGOy84LwxdrYxg=s640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="416" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2DmFpdoGW5ntKyyHSAeluBlFZ3heKUULwWHhgjrBUYRGeXmIy882IzpkIhgZmxQDujvsaElSndjKHmDNY5Y9BTv8YwMFsXY6FBhKigOxgPFxG8b6jLS-mENlDVqvKJpwojSqljM-JEaGozd6tFAFYNKbdtZM9L6LUglr6PL3SfJqAgGOy84LwxdrYxg=w348-h536" width="348" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Son Andrew is happy with his Christmas gift from Hawai!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p></div></div></div>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-8348557360687216052021-12-22T09:47:00.009-05:002021-12-25T07:10:56.843-05:00A Respected Dene Elder enters the Spirit world December 21, 2021 <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Marie Albert Bruno (nee Adam) August
1939 - December 21, 2021</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">On a hot humid Ottawa summer day, a number of years back, I went for a drive
around rural Ottawa, first to Rockland and then to Cumberland. My aunt Marie was my passenger and navigator. She’d say turn down this dusty dirt road, then
this one, not too far now. We would
stop and she’d get out, thoughtfully looking at the landscape, her eyes
searching for memories. Then she’d nod
and say, this looks the same and get back into the car. She’d say, I remember walking down about a
mile or so this on this road everyday to go to work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It astounded me how well she remembered landscape where everything to me
looked similar, farm after farm. She looked at the gravel road like it held a
treasure. But my first thought was with all the missing and murdered Indigenous
women it would have been easy for someone to grab her from that dusty road,
with no houses in the vicinity, she had walked a lonely road twice daily to get
to work to support her three young children.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Finally, we drove down another dusty dirt road and stopped at a huge old
farmhouse. I said, are you sure this is
the right house? Yes, yes, she said. This is it!
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">We went up to the front door and knocked. I was not only apprehensive
but a bit afraid. A lady, maybe in her
early fifties, opened the door. Auntie knew her parents who owned the farm. It
is hard to say how old she was. Her face seemed haggard and full of stress and
that might have aged her prematurely. She exclaimed, oh my, I have not seen you for
years!! She reached out with a big smile
and hugged my aunt and called her by her name. Come right on in she invited us cheerfully. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">We
visited almost a couple hours as they reminisce about the old days. We sat in
the kitchen from which I could see antique furniture in the living room and and
knick knacks on shelves. The kitchen was
filled with the aroma of comfort food ready to be served all laid out on the counter,
like she was expecting company. But my
auntie said, this is how it is on the farm, plenty of food cooked and taken out
into the fields to the people working. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It was a pleasure to drive her down memory lane, literally and figuratively.
as she told me stories of her time in
Ontario as a young mother with her three little children and an abusive alcoholic
husband. She worked as a chamber lady at
a motel we drove by. It was still standing but was but looking pretty worn down.
When she spoke of her boss, she said he was a very nice man and treated her
well. He never made her feel badly when she showed up with a black eye caused by
her husband or if she had to miss shifts because she couldn't walk into work. We ended our trip down memory lane with tea
and soup at a restaurant she worked at, again, describing the owner as a
sympathetic boss. People she worked for clearly
respected and liked her. I wish I had had
an iPhone back then. It would have been amazing to take pictures of her at all
these stops. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I am grateful for my auntie. She did not have email or go on Facebook.
She remained one of the few people where our communication is either in person or
by calling her landline. Knowing this, I had to keep our
communications frequent over the years. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Marie Celestine Adam was born in Northern Saskatchewan. She was the seventh child of Christine Laddi
and Chrysotome Adam. She had two sisters, Therese Deranger, my mom who passed
in 2015 at the age of 96 and Victorian Powder. She had six brothers; all
deceased now except for her youngest brother Horace. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Aunt Marie demonstrated her love for us through her cooking; she was an
excellent cook. She said you have to be creative when you don't have much to
cook and have to feed three hungry young children. What impressed me about our
drive to the various farms she lived at is how isolated she must have felt. Her husband was away for work much of the time.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin0WUWyMfqgjcHzfFcvOSEe7AAcDSqPZY9pO4IfO6I4J9xSu5r3W0UDQA8QWQPhenLtuRSPJneXNJFAE12bNZEtsldeXric584okNT630xqRMCCDis8XFfQaRBTp4dzTzHa1jXOdAB4ef6SGgdCW5gcokdUGoltnmOBr86yXpLjcA7iLIyIf6PPrhNKA=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin0WUWyMfqgjcHzfFcvOSEe7AAcDSqPZY9pO4IfO6I4J9xSu5r3W0UDQA8QWQPhenLtuRSPJneXNJFAE12bNZEtsldeXric584okNT630xqRMCCDis8XFfQaRBTp4dzTzHa1jXOdAB4ef6SGgdCW5gcokdUGoltnmOBr86yXpLjcA7iLIyIf6PPrhNKA=w240-h320" width="240" /></a></div><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">She was a great guest and visited us on at least half a dozen occasions in Ottawa. She made herself at home, baked cinnamon buns, bread and made the
most delicious chicken soup with dumplings. </span><div><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">On her first visit she asked do you have flour. I said yes, but not much and then she said
ask your neighbour to borrow some. What? I can't do that I said. she said on the farm
neighbors help each other it must be the same here, so I called my neighbour
Lucille Abbott who happily gave me an unopened 10-pound bag of flour. When the
cinnamon rolls were done, we walked over and took her some. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">My aunt Marie had a wealth of knowledge on traditional culture and our
Dene language. She was a strong advocate of the environment and would often
speak of the destruction caused by the oil sands to our traditional territory,
especially the water. She was a respected elder and attended Treaty 8 elders’
meetings as a representative in our community. She lived life on her own terms and seldom back down from a fight. the last few years of her life he began giving away her things. in the end she had nothing but the clothes on her back. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">She was an extraordinary human being, one of the last traditional elders
with sacred knowledge of our traditions. She spoke fluent Denesuline. I
loved her dearly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"></p><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">She was not perfect and had a strong stubborn streak, as most of in our
family do, but in my eyes, she was extraordinary. I only wish that people could
have seen her through my eyes, they would have been witness to the richness of
her life, her tenderness, and her willingness to help the cause of missing and
murdered Indigenous women. In the early 1990s,
she searched tirelessly for a granddaughter who had been put up for adoption. All
she had was a picture of the baby that she carried in her purse until a few
years ago when she was robbed leaving the bank. When she told me the story, she
said I held on to my purse so tight not because I was afraid to lose the money,
but it was the only picture I had at my granddaughter she said tearfully. In
that moment I felt her pain. That search ended happily, though, as my aunt’s
daughter was reunited with her adopted child and has a relationship with her.</span></div><div><span style="color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwVTA0vWJbyfdugLF5viXtnxxjEuwJKJXcwGNTWznMRVfG2T_vj2HMA70KIzWO-PENZenEBge-E2uTkHSNUkYoWkufzztjV31JJszZTE3fLKXodC1CE7FMjCb7rTPG2JX1oquBBbAFVKd_NnniMhvc3AoeuWUaftT1z9DXqvQNQAbxXzfW3-GOIePVNA=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwVTA0vWJbyfdugLF5viXtnxxjEuwJKJXcwGNTWznMRVfG2T_vj2HMA70KIzWO-PENZenEBge-E2uTkHSNUkYoWkufzztjV31JJszZTE3fLKXodC1CE7FMjCb7rTPG2JX1oquBBbAFVKd_NnniMhvc3AoeuWUaftT1z9DXqvQNQAbxXzfW3-GOIePVNA=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with a daughter,Kuni</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia61JfDdSwQkLLwSOjs74AodQ5ze9aCM41r_dqe7BEERK82VPtd6SSCiMqSSHmVKsCYATWVbV4NokCfYPd1JHObjUKW9Oz5i5qxc9leb2UpvrGYXarz8Yd0GNM_UtBl7gP6ikKDL2HxitEQMMG3WD6rscg8tY6xyZXDua0Il9lLjp3RBTuYvbVFzmbCA=s604" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="604" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia61JfDdSwQkLLwSOjs74AodQ5ze9aCM41r_dqe7BEERK82VPtd6SSCiMqSSHmVKsCYATWVbV4NokCfYPd1JHObjUKW9Oz5i5qxc9leb2UpvrGYXarz8Yd0GNM_UtBl7gP6ikKDL2HxitEQMMG3WD6rscg8tY6xyZXDua0Il9lLjp3RBTuYvbVFzmbCA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicO-wq9eq2ixP4uXnIBBFF-pO4750jZdIQpONXLCcuS4YTTX_QlVSjoWOFFCZV0Bi0to6MFqTmcY1tJ1knzuoBGCTdxf9FQOi0R21efrGbBVd12g7KaOa2bjV8T4W2qir9Rh0y_p4A3w3_38qQGmZsKTfTAu2I7lwhQfBZqwHg6ZuOTjXJebAOD9sMdA=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicO-wq9eq2ixP4uXnIBBFF-pO4750jZdIQpONXLCcuS4YTTX_QlVSjoWOFFCZV0Bi0to6MFqTmcY1tJ1knzuoBGCTdxf9FQOi0R21efrGbBVd12g7KaOa2bjV8T4W2qir9Rh0y_p4A3w3_38qQGmZsKTfTAu2I7lwhQfBZqwHg6ZuOTjXJebAOD9sMdA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Her search for her granddaughter was tenacious. She would approach lawyers at meetings at
every opportunity for help, even though she couldn’t retain them. One of those lawyers became my husband. Well before we met, he recalls attending Child
welfare meetings in Edmonton and my aunt would approach him for off the cuff
advice on finding a adopted child. He
had to tell her politely that it was not something he could help with. He still remembers the passion and anguish
she carried with her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I am blessed that she was my aunt and was part of my life journey. I am
grateful that despite my move to Ottawa she got to know my husband and my son,
and that I was able to help her relive memories of her past, while she helped
me to understand more of our language and culture. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">My aunt went to the spirit world on the winter solstice 2021, I think it
was fitting that she would leave us on the longest night of the year. It
represents our connection with the natural world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">LESSONS IN A 29 YEAR MARRIAGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Twenty nine
amazing loving years and counting! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Good communications are necessary in any
relationship and, we need to be willing to bring up uncomfortable conversations is not
only healthy but necessary. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">That
said, at the end of the day, we must be doing something right to celebrate 29
years today, November 11<sup>th</sup>, 2021!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Recently
I discovered Joseph Campbell’s A Hero's Journey. And thought it would be interesting
if this post was written using the phases in a hero's journey. Initiation,
separation call to action, challenges, cultivating allies, transformation,
home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It
begins with a calling. A calling, as I understand it is an occurrence that
grabs your attention.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It is a disruption to your ordinary life, and
it will continue showing up in different ways until it is answered. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I am not impulsive, but when I get an idea in
my head I move forward quickly.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">When
I met hubby, we connected immediately almost like we had known each other for
years. I trusted him immediately. I guess, I could interpret it as a calling to
a committed relationship, an adventure as it were. I embarked on a journey september 10, 1992, our first date into the unknown, I answered the call to an adventure of a
lifetime.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Initiation-
a Call to Action <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We
had a whirlwind courtship and married two months after our first date.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The first several years of marriage we were
fortunate to travel to Venezuela, Paris, Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand, and
Fiji.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We lovingly call these trips
honeymoons. It was truly an adventure. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We
were married five years before our son, Andrew blessed us with his arrival into
our life. It was exciting times, marriage commitment, a new home and we had Andrew.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Trials
and Challenges</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Throughout
the 29 years we experienced the loss of parents, siblings, and some friends. I
resigned a senior position in Alberta sold my condo in Edmonton, Alberta and
bought one in Ottawa’s east side. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">When I moved to Ottawa, I knew nobody. It was risky and exciting at the sametime. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">I
admit the risk for hubby was greater. His also involved a city change a move
from Toronto to Ottawa, leaving his partnership, and starting a sole practice. And, he didn't really know me. I couldn't imagine his thought process, though there
must have been apprehension, and certainly some fear, it took courage and
confidence in who he saw in me to make a commitment. People in both our lives cautioned us not to
jump into the relationship. We paid little attention to what others said we
should do or not do as most young lovebirds do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">We
didn't have many major disagreements and seemed to come to a consensus on the
important things.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">They
say pick your battles; I don’t know who “they” are. But I noticed it’s important
to select the right time to raise issues.
Moreover, it is not helpful at all to be passive aggressive, say what
you mean, and follow through with what you said you would do. Always speak up and
don't allow issues to fester. I absolutely am one to bring up and push for honest answers. When we were first married Alan would not make a decision on little things, like where to go for dinner, what movie to watch etc. I would push it until he made a decision. I didn't always want to be the one to decide where we should go what we should see. it was important to me that he was an equal partner in our adventure. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
a young wife I was headstrong. It was either black or white and there was no
gray for me.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I drew a clear line. Fortunately,
hubby knew not to cross it. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As the years
went by, I became more easy-going as my trust in hubby grew. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Still, I held integrity, and honesty to be of utmost
importance. Which meant trust is essential to have a good marriage. We navigate
the marriage with that in the background.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrgg9p-P0gtivIQP3UNhHJiXFnT7ojssvePirezLYf3rydxHYg_HB-WAumNWyCvl7D24fueDAbTopavA_PPhRVi2BMObVC_tKpCyaPGBW4IsEZ_BFn1FR9yRNPgyBXQTwcRwoPI9TrwGz/s640/wedding+1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="546" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrgg9p-P0gtivIQP3UNhHJiXFnT7ojssvePirezLYf3rydxHYg_HB-WAumNWyCvl7D24fueDAbTopavA_PPhRVi2BMObVC_tKpCyaPGBW4IsEZ_BFn1FR9yRNPgyBXQTwcRwoPI9TrwGz/s320/wedding+1.jpg" width="273" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><br /></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">A
Call To Adventure A Global pandemic</span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Suddenly
without warning we were thrown into a global pandemic in 2020. The world was turned upside down. Life became
challenging and smaller, restricted to our homes. At same time it became larger
as it became necessary to use technology specifically, zoom to participate at
meetings. For hubby that meant no more rushing
off to meetings and hotels. At the beginning it was a welcome respite, then I
think he began to miss it. it was a change of scenery and routine that he missed not that rushing to the airport in the early mornings. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">During
the pandemic I felt it necessary to re-establish our connection to each other. </span>The
entire world was disrupted, and people adapted and pivoted. I noticed we needed to reconnect. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Hubby
and I scheduled a daily chat to check in with each other a few months into the
pandemic. I believe this was necessary because before you know it months could
go by without checking in with each other and seeing how we were coping with
the restrictions and limitations brought on by the pandemic. Emotions like fear
and anxiety need to be talked through and processed. I am glad we initiated our
daily fireside chats. I did this with Andrew as well, scheduling the time where
we can connect and do something together. My daughter lives in Hawaii I also kept
communication open with her regularly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">At
times our conversation became challenging but listening with compassion and
being nonjudgmental created a safe space for both of us.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I looked forward to our daily chats. In a
recent chat, hubby said what he noticed about me since a stroke three years ago
that I’ve become laser focused. I think that was a compliment, at least I took
it as such. I felt that in myself as well. I gravitated to exploring my purpose give meaning to my life. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Departure
Disconnect and a New Beginning</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Months
into a global pandemic I resigned my position as chair and resigned from the
board of governors which I had been part of for decades.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I experienced a void and answered a
professional calling which resulted in the creation of not-for-profit
charitable organization. Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training
(GIFT) It was challenging to undertake creating a new organization during a
pandemic. Indeed, it was uncharted territory for me. I picked the name that would have this acronym. it reflects both my gift to first nation and the students who take the course and to the community. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">With
help from friends the foundation was incorporated, a bank account set up, a
website created, Board of Directors appointed, and a mission statement and mandate
in process. I feel a sense of purposefulness and as I request donations, I hope
my passion for the work is felt by others who are willing to help.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> However, the truth is, sometimes I feel alone in this mission. I am 100% focused on making this a successful foundation. I recognize that in following the hero's journey there will be challenges but through those challenges will be growth. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Return
to the Beginning</span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
we approach a new year in marriage my intention is to continue supporting the
relationship by being open and curious.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I am willing to discover new things about hubby, to be surprised and
intrigued.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I am excited about this
approach because I know there are things, I still don't know about him that
will be a pleasant surprise to discover more about him. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">For example, as I undertook to decluttering
our home, I had to be patient with him because his tendency is to hang on to old
items. I remembered when we first married, he mentioned that when his family
moved from Scotland to Canada his mom gave away his favorite toy, a train set. I
think his disappointment of losing his favorite toy, without being asked stayed
with him all these years.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As much as I
want to throw away things that no longer spark joy or are useful, I am mindful
to keep him in the loop and give him a say in what happens to his stuff.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">To
be completely honest, this past year hubby’s health has not been great, and I
can’t help but feel irritated.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I know I shouldn't. But had he taken responsibility for his health earlier he would be in
a better health today. But I lam learning to let those feelings go. For things to change it is important for each of us discover for ourselves what it is we need to do to be healthier and grow emotionally and spiritually. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Moreover, I can only let him know I support him becoming healthier in the decades to
come, however he wants to get there. what happens to him, is his journey. The truth is I am a tad bossy, and I remind myself daily, I must give him the space to
discover for himself the best path for him on his health journey.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
vow I made is to be committed through sickness and health. At the same time, we
all are responsible for our own health, and we shouldn't avoid this
responsibility. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Indeed, some things are
beyond our control.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I suffered a right brain medical induced stroke
during surgery in 2018. It was comforting to know that it was not my lifestyle
or anything I had done to create this health issue. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Fortunately for me, my recovery was short and
quick but ongoing. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Still, it is a lesson, whatever is within our
control, we shouldn't ignore. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Such
things as eating healthy, getting exercise, drinking water, having a good
night's sleep.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It is all about prioritizing
the important people and things in our life. And to take nothing and no one for
granted. my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother lived long into their 80s and 90s my great-grandmother reaching 100. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">My
intention for the next 30 years is that we continue to be healthy in mind and
in body and we each take seriously the responsibility for what is within our
domain to ensure we can continue to enjoy life together.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Indeed, when I look back over the 29 years I know we have grown in many ways, intellectually, emotionally,and spiritually. I have come into my own. Stronger and more confident. And I got the best anniversary gift, a Switch with a Mario Kart game. Lucky me!!! :) When hubby saw how excited I was he comment he didn't think I was serious when I asked for it until our son Andrew told him, how much loved it. Hubby said " it is easy to please you" :) like I said to him 29 years ago basically I am just a small-town girl with simple needs. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV00S-LgeTiV-O2apvJHKuii9Xsk3pAlqTOLygBoN0NJJKKnfpqcbfANf6v-I6jTWtYxs0YFUaBexp-F9rRCC-PYNOFqJCE0_4AiojaYT_Wg_bzyc3hcM657wMok-i24p5qquthx3aflhH/s640/IMG_3629.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="513" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV00S-LgeTiV-O2apvJHKuii9Xsk3pAlqTOLygBoN0NJJKKnfpqcbfANf6v-I6jTWtYxs0YFUaBexp-F9rRCC-PYNOFqJCE0_4AiojaYT_Wg_bzyc3hcM657wMok-i24p5qquthx3aflhH/w161-h178/IMG_3629.jpg" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best Gift ever From hubby!<br /><br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixh-NlUptInBL7feWoMP2UVW4IOUIVDgszFuTHcFE-bwbZdb5ra7OmYSgLxtDw5_akWOZ_Rnt-pOSF-ZFhnESf432nO5tZqgjBoOpH3PpbXZ9LwmmKEuHcjTc1MH7CplDASU7nRzdxfS8x/s640/wedding+3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="516" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixh-NlUptInBL7feWoMP2UVW4IOUIVDgszFuTHcFE-bwbZdb5ra7OmYSgLxtDw5_akWOZ_Rnt-pOSF-ZFhnESf432nO5tZqgjBoOpH3PpbXZ9LwmmKEuHcjTc1MH7CplDASU7nRzdxfS8x/s320/wedding+3.jpg" width="258" /></a><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">Hubby’s
Anniversary Message</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">29
years ago, I was in a crossroads. I was just recovering from an emotionally
abusive relationship and assumed that I was going to be spending a lot of time
alone before I would emerge from my hiding place and take a chance on another
relationship.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
funny thing is, that when we had our first date in September, I knew that I had
met someone very special, and when I say someone special I felt as if we knew
each other deep down and could trust each other. We ended up spending that
first weekend together and at the end of that weekend I gave her my house key.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It
seems kind of crazy in retrospect and I suppose it was, but it didn’t feel that
way at the time. It just felt natural and easy. Those first eight weeks between
that first dinner date and standing in front of a judge uttering vows to each
other were fun, passionate and yes, always easy. We spent a lot of time
watching the Blue Jays when the World Series. The morning after that win, I
went out to my little backyard in the Beach with a cup of coffee and was
greeted with the sight of a Blue Jay on one of my trees. I took it as a sign,
went inside and proposed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Now,
I do need to admit that I am not an easy person to live with, to get close to
and certainly not to be married to for 29 years. Over the course of my life, I
have managed to erect many defences. I hate being ordered about and I am always
prone to misinterpret spousal conversations as if they are either orders or
criticisms. Nearly always, they are neither.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Angelina
is an exceptional person, unlike anybody I have ever met.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">What amazes me still is how easy it all was
and how naturally it evolved from a first casual dinner date to getting married
in a few short weeks, all with absolute certainty that it was the right and
necessary path.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">My
first impression was that I could completely trust Angelina and I could be
completely open with her without having to fear being abused for that
openness.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Within a couple of weeks we
knew everything about each other.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We had
an instinctive and absolute trust in each other.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">29 years have gone by and that trust has
never wavered.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
Angelina says in her blog post, my health has not been great this year. I have
not taken care of my health and I am paying for it now. Frankly, I am living
with a great load of fear about the future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">But
our marriage is rock solid. Everything Angelina suggests to me is for my own
good. She is always surfing the web and listening to podcasts to try to find
the keys to a healthier life not only for herself but for me as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It’s
really funny, but the first impressions I had of her 29 years ago have been
completely correct. I am married to a wise, caring, beautiful woman with an old
soul. For a young soul like myself life contains a lot of insecurities. I don’t
know that everything will turn out right. But she has enough security and
wisdom for both of us, I think.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Next
year, 30! Thanks, love of my life!</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
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</p>There is no deed in this life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your life should be lived as a heroic deed - Leo Tolstoy <br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> A RISE TO
ADVENTURE</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Margaret Ann MacNeill (nee Deranger) 1974 – October 23, 2021</span><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Courage</b></span><o:p><b> is risk. sacrifice,commitment,perseverance, truth, detrimation. Maggie embodied all this.</b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As a blogger writing about a loved one who has recently passed
is for me always difficult but necessary. It helps me process and keep them alive. I do it thoughtfully, and respectfully. And I don't put it off too long because in our Denesuline
culture, we believe that the dearly departed travel to visit the people they
loved over three days, after their body is separated from their soul, their
spirit embarks on an adventure to visit.
I feel her close as I write this, like she is guiding my heart and my
hand. I hope what I write will come across and people will feel her close to
them as they read this. I made sure I honour and respect her and to call her
by the name by which she wanted to be known, as Maggie. Most of us family in
Canada knew her as Margaret Ann. I totally get it, because when I moved away
from home, I also chose to be called by my second name, Angelina. She was quick to accept that. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlr_NEB90golKs93RZreCswqW1Z7Uy9WoNrZtK3rU1M3GiIMBMsF7iCbimaVj4UNctl4w8Pk2q9ImrrYb_YicsMkIG7_GpR2RPdeC2EOz-9VXyEc7CG9iwYMHUiaImoKf-N_tsCkGFL-gM/s960/maggie+and+peter+.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlr_NEB90golKs93RZreCswqW1Z7Uy9WoNrZtK3rU1M3GiIMBMsF7iCbimaVj4UNctl4w8Pk2q9ImrrYb_YicsMkIG7_GpR2RPdeC2EOz-9VXyEc7CG9iwYMHUiaImoKf-N_tsCkGFL-gM/s320/maggie+and+peter+.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with her eldest uncle, Peter </td></tr></tbody></table>Maggie was a free spirit and answered a call to adventure
early in her life. Fear of the unknown never did discourage her. Over 20 years ago with her young son Christopher,
she accepted the call to adventure to move to a new country, and a whole new
career overnight. Well, it would seem to
those of us left behind that it was spontaneous but I'm certain she thought
carefully about her decision to move, considered the consequences, and decided
to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, into the unknown, on the other side
of the world. She had courage. It matters big or small, physical. Moral. It is rare, and she had it. <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">She never let what others thought of her hold her back. I
loved that about her. She was spirited, in other words determined I loved that about
her too. She was athletic and loved
sports. In high school she joined the rowing club. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipP9QSB5W1C14DlJ80TFaSObHlutfvuCSWNdIJerEKwPzYyHTWeM8ptReZiJdRCm6WlPIfgDfZJajNLD0vieFgmh_nJW21cnfEL8CWLcc1QKL66JcGemcLA1q6T7FdA8NZP0zWAsDAVsgn/s683/police.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="683" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipP9QSB5W1C14DlJ80TFaSObHlutfvuCSWNdIJerEKwPzYyHTWeM8ptReZiJdRCm6WlPIfgDfZJajNLD0vieFgmh_nJW21cnfEL8CWLcc1QKL66JcGemcLA1q6T7FdA8NZP0zWAsDAVsgn/s320/police.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />When she left Canada for Australia, she joined the South
Australian police force in Murray Bridge. I remember her telling me it was
physically grueling, and about an incident when a male police officer broke her
nose during a training exercise. She believed that he did it on purpose. But that
didn't stop her. She kept going and
graduated from the Academy. <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">She had determination and when she wanted to do something
she got it done. She didn't do anything in half measures. Maggie loved
completely. I loved her sense of humour and could listen to her laughter for
hours. She had a soft spot for animals, often taking in dogs. When for a time, she worked as a by-law
officer, I remember her sending me pictures of snakes and other animals that I
was petrified to receive. She would just laugh and say: “Nah they won't hurt ya.”
<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">She graced our life in Fort McMurray, Alberta in the summer of
1974, then a small northern oil company town.
As a young child she was feisty. She was very close to her cousins, and particularly
my daughter, growing up together. Their relationship was like siblings. They
fought, and then they made up.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regularly, they even dressed up in similar outfits, like
twins. Because I lived with her parents,
after I moved away, they spent many holidays together when I went home. They
continued to be in close communication right up until Maggie’s passing this
weekend.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The small town of Fort McMurray could not contain her for
too long. She was meant to share her brightness in the world with others. She
made fast friends wherever she went, a beam of light in darkness. She led the
way for others. By her gregarious nature we were never left questioning her
true loving intention for us. She loved
deeply and completely, and we all felt it deeply.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">She was kind, thoughtful and compassionate. Our schedules meant that we often talked early
in the morning, in my time. In one of
our early morning calls she asked me if I read a book she was reading. She knew I was a meditator and followed
Buddhism. I said, absolutely, I have it right here on my shelf. She couldn't believe we both had the same book. And we shared a laugh together. I think it
made us feel closer to be holding the same book title. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Her young life had to end so tragically and abruptly. It is a
challenge to grasp, why a beautiful soul would be taken from us. I thought we would have so many more
conversations, and laughter. We all do because we avoid the elephant in the
room and seldom talk about death. When Maggie
and I ended our calls, she always said she loved me, and I would tell her I
loved her more. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What gives me solace in this tragedy is knowing she lived
life on her own terms to the end, and she embraced her adventures fully with enthusiasm.
The last time I saw her in person was in Melbourne in 2008 when we went to the
movie <i>Australia</i> shortly after it was released. She invited me to this
movie even though she had already by that time had seen it three times, but she
wanted to experience it with me. After
the movie when we talked on the phone, she would say “I sing you to me. Which
meant come visit me, a line from the movie. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am very sad; at the same time, I have a desire to give meaning
to her death. It's difficult when
someone passes and there is regret, things unsaid. Her death is a poignant
reminder to all of us of the fragility of life and how suddenly it can end. There
is no guarantee that we will have an opportunity to fix relationships that have
gone off course. Since her passing I
have had a couple of conversations with people and have implored them to repair
their relationships with people still walking this journey with us. I hope my words aren’t falling on deaf ears.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Maggie, you made the world brighter for everyone who knew you
I promise to be available to your sons to help guide them when they ask and if
they need someone to be a compassionate listener, I will be there for them. I
am so proud to be your aunt, you have made me proud by your accomplishments,
your integrity, and your authenticity. Until we meet again… I am a proud aunty. You lived true to yourself, a jem. :)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4aLWyr5m7zBMEkii4l2c3a1RN3YjSsJL5YPNHRwcxib9wwpkBdaRfmEbzbfCPa9FfO7c0aUGsYmcvEq92kpvwDg7V7BK4kIAReHiwEneYwJpd4Lk4o8BOwpZy6w__WACePUFLKgy8a9R/s2048/unicorn.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1538" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4aLWyr5m7zBMEkii4l2c3a1RN3YjSsJL5YPNHRwcxib9wwpkBdaRfmEbzbfCPa9FfO7c0aUGsYmcvEq92kpvwDg7V7BK4kIAReHiwEneYwJpd4Lk4o8BOwpZy6w__WACePUFLKgy8a9R/w300-h400/unicorn.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MGRCWUl5Ks9111tsGD6NoQgjJOAJkHIY7cchboVH9L6qiOYvFGbS9UNAXPPAWduoLLlwS92tSrx7mraGusgHmn1vHl6C3rU3a0v4yPj3gIn7DH2W1NWEIfOjZpIjt5z7nitImV9K0MR2/s600/maggie2023+.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="514" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MGRCWUl5Ks9111tsGD6NoQgjJOAJkHIY7cchboVH9L6qiOYvFGbS9UNAXPPAWduoLLlwS92tSrx7mraGusgHmn1vHl6C3rU3a0v4yPj3gIn7DH2W1NWEIfOjZpIjt5z7nitImV9K0MR2/w548-h640/maggie2023+.jpeg" width="548" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maggie and sons</td></tr></tbody></table> <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><p>
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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtKWiO7-rxrGdfLpQ3dC_TTxAup6ROR30SoZgyOWfKQlVLRZsL_tL_HPeY4OifkqvMJQvDKPBMP_5FJWtE3nO8KwqspFAajEHj_AvJMbLYhiof3NpfxTB2WYz8soc8oFhM9Fx49bes_qZ/s600/Zen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="600" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtKWiO7-rxrGdfLpQ3dC_TTxAup6ROR30SoZgyOWfKQlVLRZsL_tL_HPeY4OifkqvMJQvDKPBMP_5FJWtE3nO8KwqspFAajEHj_AvJMbLYhiof3NpfxTB2WYz8soc8oFhM9Fx49bes_qZ/s320/Zen.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Remember when you believed in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy? It was exciting times. At some point in your life you stopped believing. Our belief system creates our worldview. Our beliefs create a bias in how we see the world. More often than not we're not aware of this bias. </p><p>Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to form and reorganize synaptic function based on learning or experience. Adopting an action or behavior can change how our brain works. This is how we train after injury through repetition, There is a science behind Neuroplasticity. Repetition will rewire our brain. And that is a good thing! It means we have agency over our life. We can change, improve and refine motor skills. it is not limited to physical function it also works on behavioral modification. </p><p>The science of Neuroplasticity has changed over the years. Indeed there was a time that scientists believed that our brain could not be changed. They no longer hold that belief. </p><p> </p><p>I am going to give you simple ways to change your limiting beliefs. A limiting belief is a construct we create using language that stops us from growing and becoming the best version of ourselves. Simple thoughts like, I am not good enough, I am not smart enough, I can't do this, etc. And it can be changed.</p><p>Sometimes our beliefs help us and give us joy, like believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. It evokes joy. </p><p>And sometimes our beliefs can limit our joy and prevent us from living our best life. This is called a limiting belief. </p><p>It is habitual. A habit is a response to an reward situation. It is triggered by something either external or internal. It is an automatic response and it requires no energy to implement or to act upon. Kind of like being in autopilot. In other words it is our beliefs that drive our actions, or inaction. </p><p> You can change your habits and your limiting beliefs in just 100 days. But you can't change something you are not aware of. </p><p>The first thing you need to do is to be aware of how you respond to things. Recognize your limiting beliefs as they occur, notice when you don't want to do something. or how you respond in a situation. Ask yourself why? Are you scared? Is fear one of your limiting beliefs? You don't want to be vulnerable? Or perhaps you are adverse to risk taking. It is a human tendency to not like change. Change is unpredictable. We prefer to stay in our comfort zone where it is predictable and safe. It is what gives us comfort. Alas it can also stop our personal growth. </p><p>Furthermore, It is also a human tendency to want immediacy, taking the easy route. However, to build and maintain a new habit takes practice and a commitment to want to change. Change will not occur overnight. you can even notice the change you're making. Ask yourself, why do I do this, what am I afraid of? being honest with your reply. </p><p> That said, the new habit you build will override your habitual actions. Doing something every day with commitment defines you. Being committed to your goal means that nothing will stop you from completing your goal. No matter what you're going to get it done. That his commitment. </p><p>Start small. it is important to not make it difficult for yourself. remember at the beginning there will be resistance. Do something that is easy and practice that. For example if you want to build a better physique start with five minutes of exercise daily, and slowly build up. Build your habit first, it is more important than intensity and complexity. Consistency is key to making change. Repetition will rewire your neuropathways. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I hope you take away from this is that you always have a choice. That is empowering, right? </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-75309342564349639342021-09-11T15:29:00.007-04:002021-09-20T05:55:47.056-04:00Crossroads<p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">September
10, 1992<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfSfOWOwCdCZ6UmtW2XGndCQSapMAZOb2h1zn00hN-U94e_LAjlZiokqsOCX1fyP5c9ZC5gY_92M-yhsiVFmcekF_sjYd9hc3Im-3mg-yP-yeLkLWCrPBihMQdKLg7wRniwA8I-38ZkBa/s640/Alan+.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfSfOWOwCdCZ6UmtW2XGndCQSapMAZOb2h1zn00hN-U94e_LAjlZiokqsOCX1fyP5c9ZC5gY_92M-yhsiVFmcekF_sjYd9hc3Im-3mg-yP-yeLkLWCrPBihMQdKLg7wRniwA8I-38ZkBa/s320/Alan+.jpeg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hawaii 1994<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">In March 1992, at a legal conference in Ottawa, Ontario, I met the man who would become my husband. I had just accepted a position in Ottawa, after the Oka crisis as Co Director of the newly formed Indian Claims Commision (ICC) Legal and Research Department. <span><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"> My intention was to give it 3 years. Over 25 years later I am still here.</span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: arial;">I didn't know it at the time, but I was at a
crossroads in my life. There are times in our life, whether we are aware at the
time, that change the course of our life. Did I think at the time that I was at
a crossroads in my life? Nope. I didn’t see him again or talk to him until
eight months later. On September 10</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: arial;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: arial;"> we had a meeting at my
Toronto office and we had our first date. He must have liked and trusted me because he gave me a key to his house after our date.</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;">After
September 10</span><sup style="color: #201f1e;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"> things moved quickly and a few short weeks later, on
November 11</span><sup style="color: #201f1e;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;">, we were married. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: arial;">There was a small group of very
close friends to help us celebrate the occasion.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"><span>We had a lovely ceremony at the private
chambers of Justice Roy McMurtry and lunch at Winston's restaurant with </span><span>a few</span><span> partners from his firm. Later we drove
to Chateau Montebello,Quebec and stayed for four days, our perfect mini honeymoon. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"><span>In 1992, I chose love. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;">This
year is our 29</span><sup style="color: #201f1e;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"> anniversary. The man I married is still the same
man that I fell head over heels for in 1992. He dislikes being told what to do and he is
understanding, open, and incredibly compassionate. I am so blissfully happy. And I am glad I opened my heart to him.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;">We have an incredible son, Andrew who gives us so much and a lively puppy, Chewy. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;">I
barely knew him and yet , not to sound like a cliché, my soul recognised him. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;">As I reflect, I think of the words that best
describe our whirlwind romance, not listed in any order:</span></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Curiosity</span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Secrecy</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Fare Exchange
Bistro</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Rings </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: arial;">Shopping </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">on Bloor St</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Excitement</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Comfort</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Happiness</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Discovery</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Trust</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">World
Series Blue Jays</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Moshi
pork Chinese takeout</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">Beaches</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #201f1e;">The
smell of wood burning in the fireplace</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Long walks at the Beaches</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->A surprise catered duck dinner with poached
pears for dessert</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{c1c069d0-8a0d-4871-bc24-8ddce1952808}{168}" paraid="344412708" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">It started with this post:</span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Updated August 24,2021 </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{c1c069d0-8a0d-4871-bc24-8ddce1952808}{172}" paraid="1183147985" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{c1c069d0-8a0d-4871-bc24-8ddce1952808}{174}" paraid="673351294" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I decided early in August to take a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">break</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from social media </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">specifically, from Facebook for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> month. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">admit the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> first few days was difficult</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as it is with any addiction</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> But</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I knew I needed to change my routine and fill it in with something </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">meaningful</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{c1c069d0-8a0d-4871-bc24-8ddce1952808}{174}" paraid="673351294" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{c1c069d0-8a0d-4871-bc24-8ddce1952808}{174}" paraid="673351294" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Surprisingly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">noticed </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">short</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> order</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">didn't have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the same</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> curiosity </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">or</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> even </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">desire to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> know</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> what </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">anyone</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was doing. I figured if they wanted me to know </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hopefully,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> they would call me, and some have. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> After my break I learned to appreciate life more fully, the surprise phone calls, the aroma of fresh tea, and hearing laughter. life is good.</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{c1c069d0-8a0d-4871-bc24-8ddce1952808}{254}" paraid="586324654" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{1}" paraid="1590737605" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">My decision </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to take this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">break</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was based on it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> took away my joy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Now </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sn't summer supposed to be about having fun and enjoying oneself? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{31}" paraid="425025622" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I began</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">using </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Facebook because I live </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">two time</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> zones</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> most of my </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">family</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and it is a way </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">be connected</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the beginning it was an exciting new frontier as people were navigating Facebook and learning how to use i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">F</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">amily and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">friends</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> were engaging</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the likes and thumbs up </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lost their appeal for me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{33}" paraid="864540639" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{33}" paraid="864540639" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Dunbar's number which is a measurement of the number of relationships our brain is capable of maintaining at any one time <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03014460902960289" target="_blank">Robin Dunbar </a>is a world renowned expert on human relationships and has a ton of fascinating research findings and practical tips for urging your friendships. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{33}" paraid="864540639" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{33}" paraid="864540639" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">As you know we are social animals and have an innate desire for meaningful social connection for survival. We need touch, to hear laughter, and to share a meal to develop deep relationships. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{33}" paraid="864540639" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{33}" paraid="864540639" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">More </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">recently I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> felt </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was being</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">polic</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ed, something</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I posted </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">would inevitably be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">misunderstood.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nd</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I would get a private message </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">giving me a slap on my fingers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. And i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">f I was lucky enough to get a phone </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">call,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I could explain myself </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">no harm no foul</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> however </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">often</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I would just get a message on messenger</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> chastising me for what I had posted</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{147}" paraid="1857778967" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Sadly, the bottom line is that my original intent for deeper connection with family</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and “friends”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fell short</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Granted this is not only in my family but generally people have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">become</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> used to a certain way of using Facebook and in my opinion, it is not </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{175}" paraid="419490301" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Unfortunately,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> people prefer checking Facebook status to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">picking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> up the phone and talking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to each other</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">That is Fu** up</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">! </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Before </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I decided to take this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">br</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eak</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Facebook a couple </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">family members </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">told me they went off Facebook</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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I notice</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> they were happier, more confident. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It was as if they had escaped a cult!</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> caught my curiosity.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{233}" paraid="2130170812" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{235}" paraid="886991463" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is the middle of August and I have been off Facebook for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">3</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> weeks. And it feels great</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">!</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">too</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> feel more confident, happier and creative.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e60838a3-a5b5-4372-a285-506994da4157}{255}" paraid="1909952131" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{781044a6-cc87-4703-acda-5c8a82ca359b}{2}" paraid="1115130388" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">More importantly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> has changed m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e in just 3 weeks</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I have been more productive</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and have engaged in more meani</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ngful communication</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I have time to read real books,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and it brings me something Facebook didn't . I am </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seriously </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">considering deleting my account entirely.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Is it cheating if</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I have been using Instagram to post pictures and it appears I am on Facebook but I'm not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">choose to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">follow</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n my journey for health and happiness</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">who provide</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> helpful hints for living a healthier and happier</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> lives</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Interesting</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ome </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are even </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">family</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Moreover it is on balance more positive tool. </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{781044a6-cc87-4703-acda-5c8a82ca359b}{126}" paraid="555364977" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, apart from more </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">time, I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have seen so far is that people who know me have called me on the phone. What a concept. 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background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ask</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> them when they would be available for chat. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I made</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> an appointment to have a chat. lol This works </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">well</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Don't you agree</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e have lost </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">our</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ability to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">have fluid</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">natural communication</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ironically,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we think </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">social media</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">connects</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> us</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, but we have lost </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">our</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ability to engage, to listen, to respond, and to connect with each other.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Many have opted to communicat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> through text and messages by way of social media. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Or using their smartphone</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> While sending texts may increase </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">quantity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">speed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of communication</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he quality of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">our </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">communications has suffered. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lost</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the meaning of connection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">B</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">efore I took th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> break from Facebook, I would get messages like did you see my Facebook post</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I replied</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I'm not on Facebook continually, I popped in first thing in the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">morning,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and I don't go back </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">un</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">til</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the next day</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> so</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> no I didn’t see your post</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{45}" paraid="817788407" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{47}" paraid="1171767754" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Facebook has </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">created a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> false </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sense of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">connection with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">one another</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is unquestionable and obvious to me that Facebook has changed the way we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">communicate, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">not always for the better. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> am speaking more for myself on this point. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{75}" paraid="124374761" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{77}" paraid="459388491" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">used Facebook</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to see what someone was up to instead of calling them . </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After a couple hours of scrolling, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it satisfied</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> my curiosity and I felt that I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">connected to them </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by my </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">comments, likes,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and emoji's I responded with.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> That is sad</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">!</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The problem is that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a fail!</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it's one way fr</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">m me to a computer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and not directly to a person</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. H</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ow is that a meaningful connection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">?</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I really don't </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">believe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the recipient felt any connection with me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and if I was honest with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">myself,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it was unfulfilling for me as well. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is not an adequate substitute for meaningful</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{161}" paraid="1955307138" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he normal cues we get from face-to-face communication is missing, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">such as </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">facial expressions, hand gestures, inflection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in our tone. Even the pauses between sentences as we speak is missing. And this increases the chances of misunderstandings.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Moreover, we tend to overreact to what we read on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Facebook</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> moment</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> our emotions </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">can </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">get the best of us</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">leading to drastic consequences</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Many relationships have been broken over comments on Facebook</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Can we just grow up</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{161}" paraid="1955307138" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{161}" paraid="1955307138" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Facebook is creating a wedge between us and unless we take drastic actions like deleting our account, we will be forever slaves of this illusion that we are connecting to each other meaningfully</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">P</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ick up the phone and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> visit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">person </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and get back to normal ways of communicating </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that avoids</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">misunderstanding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and ambiguity that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Facebook</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is known for</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{161}" paraid="1955307138" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{6546486a-1bb2-4c17-bb8f-90c145ff707e}{215}" paraid="600350079" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is a sad commentary when a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">society believes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">c</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n replace human to human</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> connection.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Particularly in the middle of a global pandemic we need more than ever human con</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hen the pandemic is o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ver</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{30}" paraid="218090727" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">should ch</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oose to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">be mindful</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> how we use </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Facebook and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dispense with the notion that it is to create human connection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Don’t be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> afraid of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> taking a break now and then </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{30}" paraid="218090727" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; 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user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">P</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">articularly if</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">creates unhealthy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> relationship</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and if</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it causes you to feel less than or not good enough. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And furthermore, if you begin to question people's motive</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for not liking or commenting on your post</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">or if you feel the m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">emes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are speaking to you directly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it is time for a break.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Really take a break from it!!!</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{104}" paraid="995495875" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">What I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> discovered from my little break is nothing is a substitute for person-to-person communication</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I enjoy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">receiving an</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> invitation to set a time for a telephone visit. It makes me smile to hear a familiar voice </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> We h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">umans</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> large</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> social animals and have an innate need for community and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">have</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a deep desire for connection. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">M</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ake no mistake</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">:</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">you won’t get it from</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Facebook. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this Facebook </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">break</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> has proven to me is that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">my</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> life </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> rewarding and satisfying without </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and yours is too. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{172}" paraid="1707183240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{176}" paraid="2013345167" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Relish</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the remainder of your summer I recommend taking a break from Facebook. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nd it may even enhance your communication </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and create</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a deeper connection with your “friends”. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{192}" paraid="1005056592" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{194}" paraid="1947482592" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">After I wrote this post I started thinking some more and came to this conclusion:</span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{198}" paraid="131608299" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{200}" paraid="1730967076" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{202}" paraid="800929803" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">August 22, 2021</span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{206}" paraid="152815163" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{208}" paraid="160464079" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">Open Letter to Facebook </span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":2,"335551620":2}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":2,"335551620":2}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{216}" paraid="715916066" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{218}" paraid="604039858" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">Dearest Facebook </span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{222}" paraid="1379435292" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{224}" paraid="1560975320" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> you</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t's not you</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it's me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{246}" paraid="2054172423" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{b6dbd2de-4972-45eb-9856-7ae543506289}{248}" paraid="1019813765" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yeah, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">well, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">actually </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> you</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{11}" paraid="181081203" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{13}" paraid="735854379" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I admit that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">you showed me who you were </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the beginning, but I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was blind</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it. It was there for all of us to see, but it took time for it to sink in. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I cannot identify when my frustration with you began</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> It happen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gradually</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">think I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lulled</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> into a false sense of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">community and connection because that is how you're designed.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{55}" paraid="997204409" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{57}" paraid="1472892038" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I got d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">istracted by the gimmicks</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> thumbs up an</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">emojis</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I admit t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hat is clever programming</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Before I even realize</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> what was happening,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I was</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">being </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">trained </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">how to behave</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on Facebook. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Mindlessly scrolling</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> liking what others posted</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and wasting my time. These likes </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">created a psychological response</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the more likes the happier people felt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Not to mention we felt like we we were missing out and habitually had to check what was happening on facebook </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is a disturbing game</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">Facebook was </span><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">never</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> created for the user</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he cunning design convinced us it was</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e were duped</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and willingly participated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. It preyed on our emotions, drawing us deeper into it.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{145}" paraid="2089595469" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{147}" paraid="1017197095" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I too was duped. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">believe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it was here for me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It was exciting new and full of possibilities</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">You introduced me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> new </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">f</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">iends</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” and groups it thought I was interested in, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">but I’ve </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">come to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">understand </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">about</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">money, not mine but Facebook. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{199}" paraid="252565380" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{201}" paraid="554799657" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> want </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fundamentally</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">different things</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I want s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">omething greater which </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ppreciate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> you can’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> give me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> You are superficial</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">you’re </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reedy, only after one thing! </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I digress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I shouldn't be resorting to name calling but I am irritated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I wasted so much time there. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{251}" paraid="975237889" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{7a49eb07-58c1-45ab-9766-566db790c98d}{253}" paraid="488065914" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">R</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ecently</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I've been </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hanging out with</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">another social media app,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> where</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">there is no false expectation, nothing is required from me, and I want nothing from it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> It</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is easy, and I am having fun, even if it is part of Facebook, somehow it is different.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e6559546-2781-43ff-b75f-a7f947b8ab3d}{30}" paraid="565657649" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e6559546-2781-43ff-b75f-a7f947b8ab3d}{32}" paraid="237399161" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">However, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> learn</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from you, and now I am a bit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> cautious.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I have this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">suspicion</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> you're all the same</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The truth is Facebook and the like are self serving.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">These </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">connections</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">economical for you</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, right? The goal is to generate revenue for itself. And we willingly bare our details of our lives to you as we interact with “friends.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e6559546-2781-43ff-b75f-a7f947b8ab3d}{80}" paraid="1931221804" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e6559546-2781-43ff-b75f-a7f947b8ab3d}{82}" paraid="407588912" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A couple </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">years ago</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">thought that</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">could</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> make it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">work</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I even formed a group of like-minded </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">intelligent </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">individuals</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on your platform.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I was hoping to encourage them to not automatically react but to think </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> respond differently</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But alas, we were </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">all </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">already</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> overwhelmingly caught up </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in this unhealthy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">one-way pattern</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">personally </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">couldn't let go of my expectation</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of how I wanted this to work. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e6559546-2781-43ff-b75f-a7f947b8ab3d}{154}" paraid="1117127969" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I know now it is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">my</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> unfulfilled expectation that has caused m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> frustration</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and disappointment. At the end of the day, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I wanted more th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n you could deliver</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{e6559546-2781-43ff-b75f-a7f947b8ab3d}{180}" paraid="1468372634" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> you reminded me </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">many</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> good times</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> anniversar</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ie</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> birthdays, and such</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> asking me to share those memories with others</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> You even created games to entertain me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and to keep me coming back. And </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">you kept suggesting </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">friends</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> you thought might make me happy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">do </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">appreciate your effort</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">but it's not enough to keep </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dysfunctional </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">connection going,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> because you did those things not for m</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y benefit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> but </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to mine my personal data to enrich yourself. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW87256798" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{f05dd858-9b63-43ac-818b-744d375c9a9b}{1}" paraid="988774442" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Who you have always </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">been.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> O</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ur expectations no longer align</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I've enjoyed my time with you</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, because you</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> were filling my </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">needs</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> but unfortunately, I never felt </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">completely </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fulfilled</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">S</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">omething was</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> always</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> missing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Your algorithm has completely underestimated </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">my deep desire for a real connection, which you couldn’t provide me. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{f05dd858-9b63-43ac-818b-744d375c9a9b}{59}" paraid="1288672686" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">It’s over! </span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{f05dd858-9b63-43ac-818b-744d375c9a9b}{65}" paraid="2020569251" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">Sincerely,</span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{f05dd858-9b63-43ac-818b-744d375c9a9b}{71}" paraid="1744750349" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW87256798 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-CA">Seeker </span><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW87256798 BCX0" paraeid="{f05dd858-9b63-43ac-818b-744d375c9a9b}{73}" paraid="755390048" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="EOP SCXW87256798 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7Gdo2wdnd_UqgugvBLXfmvFbxy3M6sCNrjQx8dM0ffGqk4CY5A-c5MbA43VbUd9QcFVt5SB-errQ6DmxZwxqdq5-TxiiKCQqUrhyeKshmTbRVSKjd90_ZZpsp3BbziMObuztfbHDHWmk/s428/pat%2527s+resting+place.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="275" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7Gdo2wdnd_UqgugvBLXfmvFbxy3M6sCNrjQx8dM0ffGqk4CY5A-c5MbA43VbUd9QcFVt5SB-errQ6DmxZwxqdq5-TxiiKCQqUrhyeKshmTbRVSKjd90_ZZpsp3BbziMObuztfbHDHWmk/w203-h315/pat%2527s+resting+place.jpeg" width="203" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrick, my late brother<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In April,
2020 <a href="http://thedestinywithin.blogspot.com/2020/04/patrick-david-deranger-1951-2020-dene.html">Patrick Deranger my late brother </a> and a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, passed,
and his last wish was to be buried on his family’s traditional lands in Saskatchewan. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #050505; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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our family, three brothers, the oldest Peter (age 79), an older sister,
Dora (age 82), another sister ,67,plus two nieces, and the children of one of the nieces, a nephew and
his wife, decided to honour Patrick’s last wish.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGzGi6ZiAcV2AQcnfHCxgqG7-3iu-8wmukBOYao8pF-JfXwGrge12ULTzSAczmoVN7zG90V-MD9aYmbgDKclCo_yWc8pbnM4RxZgW-KPTQI-t9Z0pmmKHB5TIdqgBbJBd_acY5DQcTzpF/s640/cabin.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="640" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGzGi6ZiAcV2AQcnfHCxgqG7-3iu-8wmukBOYao8pF-JfXwGrge12ULTzSAczmoVN7zG90V-MD9aYmbgDKclCo_yWc8pbnM4RxZgW-KPTQI-t9Z0pmmKHB5TIdqgBbJBd_acY5DQcTzpF/w400-h301/cabin.jpeg" width="400" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEier3y_kj2QN1UjJc-JzK9LO8g-C_DUMm8Gz6cg507TKdHHjcisdbOjMvPRl_uBciPsOSZ6wVkIAbyRLSnOyP1AIEVb5tLS9lTK_OdOHUl92Gjovlt25nuTBPbJ6AcDQF9LAi9O__o_XVmp/s1125/traditional+lands+.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1125" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEier3y_kj2QN1UjJc-JzK9LO8g-C_DUMm8Gz6cg507TKdHHjcisdbOjMvPRl_uBciPsOSZ6wVkIAbyRLSnOyP1AIEVb5tLS9lTK_OdOHUl92Gjovlt25nuTBPbJ6AcDQF9LAi9O__o_XVmp/s320/traditional+lands+.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">They left early
in the morning, at the end of July 2021 for the 12 hour journey to the end of
the road in northwestern Saskatchewan at our lake we call “</span><i style="color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Luezan Tue.</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">It is over a thousand kilometers from
Edmonton, Alberta and its name means “Trout Lake.” They wanted to fulfill our
brother’s last wish to bury his ashes at that lake where our father made a home
1n 1973 with several of my brothers and sisters and stayed there year round, a
stunning place not only for the natural beauty but its sacredness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">The last part
before their destination is six hours of ungraded gravel road. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Then they were picked up at the lake by Brian, who is the outfitter on the land by boat to our sacred traditional lands, sandy
white beaches with plenty healthy trout fish in the pristine lake.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">All the original
members of the family who went there in 1973 with our late father were forever
transformed by the sacred energy of the land and it forever changed them.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Patrick was one of them.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">After a brief exploration of the area
Patrick’s ashes were placed in a special spot and cross was erected. Some of
his ashes were buried where others had been spread in the area.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Cabins in these pictures originally built in 1973. </span></p>
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a sacred duty is an essential tradition for Indigenous families to assist the
spirit to continue its journey into the spirit world. It is the reason that the
recent discovery of thousands of unmarked graves at former residential school
properties was so egregious.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Not only
that the families not have opportunity to say goodbye the trauma of not knowing
what happened to their babies compounded the trauma knowing that the spirit of
these children were not properly guided into the spirit world by their
surviving families. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #050505;"><br />I am hoping to build on this experience by planning an annual cultural camp. The evenings will
be filled with storytelling, and traditional songs that will energize the small delegation
tasked with this sacred duty and inspired them to plan an annual youth cultural
Camp, beginning next summer. The first
cultural gathering will be on leadership. These are photo from this recent journey. Finally, Heartfelt appreciation to ACFN for Financial support to make this happen. Photos From family that were there. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #050505;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #050505;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpuiCP0g7HOhyphenhyphenA5HalSs0wxaL7egbXqWb1rMcl7Yg9kvc8OO82RrPb_3x3D07Hn49GXIpynMZPN3nZcNCLGQ4bz-P08CUgicuzg3WztcYjJP1wEbsKshXAJ4Znw4VAIdYacTSCjxZNwvB5/s960/fredy+2021.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpuiCP0g7HOhyphenhyphenA5HalSs0wxaL7egbXqWb1rMcl7Yg9kvc8OO82RrPb_3x3D07Hn49GXIpynMZPN3nZcNCLGQ4bz-P08CUgicuzg3WztcYjJP1wEbsKshXAJ4Znw4VAIdYacTSCjxZNwvB5/w300-h400/fredy+2021.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; 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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-highlight: yellow;">WARNING – THIS MAY TRIGGER TRAUMA</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyWu2LWIPjMKjzeyc0SL_NKDdn1QY-n5VDY7uHqKk1EtO1_PdkaVOibVp8PKSVGr43SuUfP8pa09MyD090vHeAobYeMt9lTWE8S-lIUxAnIa9R-EaQ8MQuugFucyH3iyfMvBmcfd3LVSA/s700/Holy+Angels.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="700" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyWu2LWIPjMKjzeyc0SL_NKDdn1QY-n5VDY7uHqKk1EtO1_PdkaVOibVp8PKSVGr43SuUfP8pa09MyD090vHeAobYeMt9lTWE8S-lIUxAnIa9R-EaQ8MQuugFucyH3iyfMvBmcfd3LVSA/w376-h258/Holy+Angels.jpeg" width="376" /></a></div><br /><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-highlight: yellow;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-highlight: yellow;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">I no longer Identify as a Catholic. I have adopted
Buddhist philosophy and practices which, I've come to believe, is closer to being
Dene, an Indigenous person. I alone am responsible for my life. I have full
agency.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyg_D-7PrL_4S7IuIRljzB7UcE3y5zKbUw1-RXxU8AofAmJnQZfE_1zwGUqo-o7lNwlB07bIXJHy1ETKrxXsI0jArjq0SFaXylJ6mBOfzfCeinCSTuUHKoz3UZvFm3_v-v0Fs05tF7yX0/s1280/drum.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyg_D-7PrL_4S7IuIRljzB7UcE3y5zKbUw1-RXxU8AofAmJnQZfE_1zwGUqo-o7lNwlB07bIXJHy1ETKrxXsI0jArjq0SFaXylJ6mBOfzfCeinCSTuUHKoz3UZvFm3_v-v0Fs05tF7yX0/s320/drum.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Dene drummer is my brother-in-law John Mercredi</span></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br /></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">There is no worshiping of idols, or of a God;
only the deep respect and appreciation for Natural law and karma. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What that means for me is to respect nature,
the trees, the water, the wind, the sun and all living beings. More importantly,
to actively do what I can personally to grow, spiritually and mentally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
belief is that being an authentic Indigenous person is respecting the teachings
of the Dene, my parents, my grandparents and my ancestors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We tell our story with our drum. This image, a Dene drummer is my brother-in-law John Mercredi. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">Residential school did not take away my identity as
Denesuline. I am grateful my parents didn’t attend residential school and
continued to speak our mother tongue and to practice our culture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">I have always understood spirituality as being in
harmony with nature, a lesson I observed from my Dad, Isidore Deranger and
other Dene hunters in the hamlet of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">The recent devastating discovery of 751 souls in unmarked
graves on the grounds of a former residential school in Saskatchewan has
shocked all Canadians. And this is less than two months after another discovery
of more bones on former residential school grounds in British Columbia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel an even greater urgency to distance myself
from being Catholic. These discoveries are sickening. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">To be clear, it is not because I am ashamed. It is because I feel survivor’s guilt that I came out of residential school for the most part unscathed. It took me years of careful introspection to reach this conclusion. I have read a good deal about similar guilt experienced by survivors of the Holocaust. But of course the survivors did nothing wrong.Is this a reckoning? Reckoning and release are
impossible when we operate under a code of denial or delusion. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Perhaps what is needed is to designate an annual
month to the remembrance of children who perished in residential schools.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">I spent seven years at Holy Angels Residential
school in northern Alberta, I was not beaten, starved, abused or electrocuted. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">I am grateful that I was born 15 years late,
and at the time I attended Holy Angels Residential school in the mid-60s and early
70s, approximately 15 years before it was closed, and the building was demolished.
By the time I was a student at residential school the culture in the school was
different. Perhaps it was because of the leadership of our principal Father Mousseau
OMI or the changes in the church after Vatican II, but for whatever the reason
I was spared some of the degradation of former students, including
contemporaries of mine and some of my own siblings.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">At the time I was there, a young priest, Father Mousseau
was instrumental in making some positive changes. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">We who lived in Fort Chipewyan were allowed to
go home on the weekend; we could speak our native language, and in truth a
number of nuns and priests spoke Dene or Cree. He played Beatles songs blaring
through the speakers on weekends and in the summer months. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">He also opened his office so we could come
read comics or books in summer. I continued to have a positive friendship with
him until his death in the early 2000s.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">On balance, I believe I was treated humanely. I
have come to understand that it is okay to speak the truth about my positive
experiences. I have also acknowledged that many former students had horrible devastating
experiences, some even from my own immediate family.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">With the discovery of unmarked graves there
is no denying that something unthinkable happened to these children.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The question then becomes: what do we do
about it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Lately, as more former students become
comfortable in telling their truth I discovered that two former students from Holy
Angels were committed to a mental institution for nothing other than not being compliant
or running away home. My older sister who is 8 years older than me was one of
them. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Learning about this I wondered,
how many more former students were sent away to a mental institution for no
reason, to be stigmatized as mentally ill?</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">What care were they given?</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">On June 24, 2021 751 students buried in <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cowessess-first-nation-says-751-unmarked-graves-found-near-former-sask-residential-school-1.5483858" target="_blank">unmarked graves at Cowessess First Nation</a> at a former residential school in Saskatchewan
were discovered. Both these discoveries, the first one in BC and the latest in
Saskatchewan touch people’s humanity. Many tears have been shed by people who
were not in residential school at this confirmation of what many people might
have regarded as unfounded rumours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">I find it difficult to believe that no one knew
about this. This news came less than a month after a discovery of 215 bones of
former residential school in BC former residential school, Tk’emlúps te Secwe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">̓</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">pemc First Nation BC.
The shocking news led to efforts to employ ground penetrating radar at all other
former residential school sites across Canada.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The disbelief and horror of the remains of 215 children, some as
young as three years old, is amplified with the news of another 751 remains discovered
last week. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">It is inconceivable to me
that no one knew what was happening in those schools. Estimates have been made
that thousands of unmarked graves exist in former residential schools.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">These estimates – mere statistics – did not
move people the way these discoveries.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The Truth and Reconciliation Commission sought an addition to its
mandate to get better data on child graves at residential schools.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The federal government turned them down.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">I am convinced that as more ground penetrating
work is being conducted it will uncover more bones on former residential school
grounds.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">I pause in silent contemplation
of this horror.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">This is Canada! We have
a right to be angry. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">We can be wounded
and accountable. We can grow and heal as we move on as a society. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The Church knew, and the government certainly also
knew. People in the communities must have demanded answers why their babies
didn’t make it home. My own mother put her 14 year old son on an airplane to the
hospital in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">She never saw him again. Is he in an unmarked grave, waiting for radar
to disclose his bones?</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">My very own
brother…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The Catholic Church does not have Indigenous
spirituality and humanity. The Church called us savages and create policy to eliminate
our identities but also take our land. They were so negligent that they did not
provide proper care.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">They acted as if we
were disposable, not worthy of normal human dignity or their compassion. Their
policies literally murdered us. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">And the
government of Canada, always penny-pinching when it came to our needs, did not
provide adequate nutrition or medical care. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">They did not think to provide the very human
need to the bodies of students who passed away in residential schools home for
a proper sacred burial or consider their families need for closure.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">They treated us as less than human.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">All of this callous brutality in the name of “civilizing”
our people.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">WHAT DO DO NEXT?</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: -1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;">1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: -1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">DESIGNATE JUNE AS AN INDIGENOUS HEALING MONTH</span></b></p>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">FUND INDIGENOUS CEREMONY IN EACH COMMUNITY TO HONOR THE CHILDREN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -1cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">DEVELOP CURRICULUM K-12 TELLING THE TRUE STORY OF RESIDENTIAL
SCHOOLS IN CANADA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -1cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">CULTURAL HEALING ACTIVITIES IN EACH OF THE FIRST NATIONS
ACROSS CANADA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">DNA IDENTIFYING FAMILIES OF THE STUDENTS FOUND IN UNMARKED GRAVES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">An Indigenous Health Month would be filled with Indigenous
cultural activities, including the development of curriculum in K-12 in the
schools identifying, and telling the true story of residential schools in
Canada. That is how we should honour the students who perished in residential
schools across Canada. To that end, funding should be provided to all First
Nations across Canada to develop this curriculum and create a campaign in their
communities in honour of residential school children who died. This is how we
take back what was lost and move away from victimhood and retain agency in all our
lives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">How do we move forward as a society that allowed
this horror to take place?</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">We must first
acknowledge what happened. For some reason the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
tried to do this by revealing some of the horror stories but yet the swift condemnation
from people did not come. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">And records
from residential schools were not released even after court order. What they
could provide was statistics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">This devastating news of uncovered bones has rekindled
pleas for accountability from the Catholic church that ran most of the schools,
and the removal of all monuments of Canadian leaders whose set up residential
school system. Where does that leave reconciliation?</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;">APOLOGIES AND REMOVING
MONUMENTS</span></u></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; text-align: justify;">In my opinion the time for apologies and removing
monuments has passed. Those gestures are meaningless in light of these horrific
discoveries and simply does not do enough to correct what happened. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">What is required is a concrete plan moving
forward something like the Nuremberg Trials that investigated the criminal Nazi
actors involved in the Holocaust during World War II. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The problem in this instance, is that it
happened too long ago. Many of the witnesses are likely long dead. In order to
heal we still need to make sense of what happened and why it was allowed to
happen. Had this process occurred in the 1970s we might have had a chance for
redemption and closure. However, I continue to be hopeful that the truth may still
be revealed, and the people and entities who are responsible or are Complicit in these events are brought to justice.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Personally, as a former residential school student,
I looked to my ancestors who came before me and thank them for showing me that
we carry the blood of survivors and we can always live free, never to live as a
victim of anyone or anything. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">What has helped me over the years is the idea
that I am not a victim and I have the agency to create the life I have. I made
a conscious decision to step out of victimhood so that I can see the
possibilities of a better future for me and my children, just as the parents,
brothers sisters, aunts and uncles are feeling after these horrific discoveries.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">We have plenty of evidence that shows Indigenous
peoples in Canada are resilient. Our peoples have faced many generations of
attempts to erase our cultures, language and identities.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">We have survive the dispossession of our
lands.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The </span><i style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Indian Act</i><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> still
governs much of our lives.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Yet we persist.</span></p>
<!--EndFragment--></div>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-11156357962063348452021-05-29T12:56:00.005-04:002021-05-29T13:15:28.523-04:00Making choices For Health and Happiness <p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEdQSNAsjL6CNE6qFLdhRgqYpkzY8tnZG4ZfB8neHyUPmXHF-Fm02aYBK6yqIPng11JiEbJpYwLEgtHg6vhPPb1Srd75kEMMCuleXf6kJj2L_DC4ChQ7V-4LOEq0apTiocBd3yulxBlmi/s640/+Saturday+May+20+.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="484" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEdQSNAsjL6CNE6qFLdhRgqYpkzY8tnZG4ZfB8neHyUPmXHF-Fm02aYBK6yqIPng11JiEbJpYwLEgtHg6vhPPb1Srd75kEMMCuleXf6kJj2L_DC4ChQ7V-4LOEq0apTiocBd3yulxBlmi/s320/+Saturday+May+20+.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water infused with sunlight</td></tr></tbody></table>This morning the sun is shining the birds are singing. I sat comfortably with my face accepting the radiant sun and I am happy. <p></p><p>I make choices daily to ensure my optimal physical health. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Kezg5sjq_KRSvWbHmih83wIsIdR-1EKYYYcs6BKTM_xhsyLhvrt8WpLn-uATroPGMPdMB9mPJTZ0vgBlxPK5M8ADO1kKOOmljsgVJXGR2M038I_N40qwyQaaQ11-C8C12e-iu694klUW/s1280/April+13.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1207" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Kezg5sjq_KRSvWbHmih83wIsIdR-1EKYYYcs6BKTM_xhsyLhvrt8WpLn-uATroPGMPdMB9mPJTZ0vgBlxPK5M8ADO1kKOOmljsgVJXGR2M038I_N40qwyQaaQ11-C8C12e-iu694klUW/s320/April+13.jpeg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>I recognize I am privileged. I live in a beautiful natural<br /> surrounding by the Ottawa River. I have a compassionate and empathetic family that I lean on for help. <p></p><p>I am aware that my life could have turned out differently. I am Dene, an indigenous woman raised in a large family (16 in my generation). </p><p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtVwiOPPACdZuQ1kz0QIgXbG53J3xPmJtZd0xPmB46jw9pxbrBCo66rOCfi_ZYDkg_IF19zSL01PKTFaGXjpzfGpNP_zC0Q4lqwhFYDl-QXgVhmYUMmMAexI50DoRcVK6kK_u4wkpEPNh/s720/Mama%2527s+children+.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtVwiOPPACdZuQ1kz0QIgXbG53J3xPmJtZd0xPmB46jw9pxbrBCo66rOCfi_ZYDkg_IF19zSL01PKTFaGXjpzfGpNP_zC0Q4lqwhFYDl-QXgVhmYUMmMAexI50DoRcVK6kK_u4wkpEPNh/s320/Mama%2527s+children+.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Girls in the family</td></tr></tbody></table><br />When you look at statistics of indigenous people in Canada there are so many challenges that we are face because we are Indigenous. We are faced with obstacles that the rest of society does not have to think about. Not the least of which is our history of residential schools. <p></p><p>In yesterday's news over <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7902306/unmarked-graves-kamloops-residential-school/" target="_blank">200 bones of young children were found on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia. </a></p><p>As a former residential school student I know the trauma that this news can bring up. However, I don't view at my experience in residential school as being a victim. I prefer to look at the resilience within me that it brought out and I am grateful I did not perish in the school. </p><p>Like plants, my natural instinct is to search for the light, and to acknowledge when I see the light. </p><p>I also believe that the small choices we make daily can create abundance and a brilliant future.</p><p>This is not to say that I don't have challenges in my life, and more importantly, that I am not special. I am ordinary. I don't have wealthy parents. I created the life I have by the choices I have made. </p><p>However, I do recognize what sets me apart from others is my unstoppable optimism. I acknowledge that having a supportive family helps with my unique perspective on always looking for the positive. Moreover I am not in survival mode. I have the privilege of pausing and making good decisions. </p><p>In 2018 a stroke left me blind in one eye and with mobility issues. This situation did not create a crisis within me. I didn't ask, "Why me?" It didn't diminish my resilience. In fact, it strengthened my resolve for healing. And it actually pointed me in a direction to create space for knowledge and learning. </p><p>I have devoured books on neurology and brain health. Furthermore, I believe in synchronicity and because I am open to receiving information that will enhance my life the powers that be have led me to Jacob Liberman. All I had to do was take notice. </p><p>Sitting in the sun, allowing its heat to radiate through my body and filling me with brilliant light. In that moment I am happy. Not thinking about tomorrow, or the past. Just being. In this moment I am whole. </p><p>Recently, I got some upsetting news that my field of vision was not improving and I would have to wait a few more months before trying again to meet the criteria to obtain my drivers license. I began reading books on how to improve my eyesight. For sure, I am aware that my right blind eye cannot be restored, but that does not stop me from ensuring that my left eye's field division can't be enhanced and healthy. </p><p>I connected with <a href="https://www.jacobliberman.org/">Jacob Liberman, author of <i>Light Medicine of the Future</i>. </a> and <i>Luminous Life</i>. His thinking resonated with me and I am totally aligned with his point of view on healing. Light it is medicine that can heal and is in abundance. The sun.</p><p> </p><p>If we can recognize when opportunity is in front of us it may just lead us to our life's purpose. The interesting thing is it often does not look like what we expect. </p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-61715256500916362312021-04-29T09:24:00.001-04:002021-04-29T09:26:40.678-04:00 A Conversation Stick <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zC5I0Q6raVHqeLDJRzfUyEvViJ2wpHqIGiUP8Y4exaY-vVOZ9NEt7wjZjGr_0xRNnCIfmkyh7jafKfahAgct_4IjaN8G-7Y5EjfnRx-CQLHY63iAt5y_epvnFjs822R1kCgXEWey1xgL/s1280/Neo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1194" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zC5I0Q6raVHqeLDJRzfUyEvViJ2wpHqIGiUP8Y4exaY-vVOZ9NEt7wjZjGr_0xRNnCIfmkyh7jafKfahAgct_4IjaN8G-7Y5EjfnRx-CQLHY63iAt5y_epvnFjs822R1kCgXEWey1xgL/s320/Neo.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A Conversation Stick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My walking stick arrived and It
is pretty cool. I never imagined I would get excited about something like this.
Using a mobility aid is not something that I eagerly embrace, and I believe a
lot of people resist using it for the same reasons that I reluctantly started
using one. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I have been using one for a
couple of years after a stroke to prevent falls and give me some assistance when
I am out and about. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It's interesting to me that I was
unwilling to use a cane, mostly because I thought it made me look vulnerable and
old. And it shouldn't really, because in Indigenous cultures elders are
revered. In current times, though, even Indigenous people are not living up to
how our ancestors treated their elders. But I also didn't like answering
questions about what happened to me and why I had to use an aid. And if I am completely honest, perhaps I just
didn’t want to be judged as weak. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">When I thought more about it, though,
I wondered why underneath I felt shame for requiring a cane. Where does that
come from? Why did I feel shame? It
really doesn't make sense. After all we don't have those same feelings if we wear
glasses do, we? I should just be grateful that I am able to have mobility,
albeit slowly. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Then, my daughter sent me a link
to Neo-Walk, a company that designs and sells pretty cool looking walking
sticks. They call it DNA. Which stands for “Do Not Ask.” The updated design using vibrant colours and
clear acrylic material are a huge step up from the traditional canes. Neo-Walk
also makes customized walking stick. This interests me, and I'm going to put my
mind and creativity to think of a design I would like them to make me. I definitely like the feel of it. It is sturdy and feels safe. What more could I
ask for? Once I create my design, my conversations will not be focused or why,
and I needed to use a walking stick, but on the cool design. Taking this
perspective is empowering. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As with any challenges we faced,
resilience happens out of the necessity of being creative and having a
perspective that empowers. Living in a global pandemic has proven this over and
over again as our freedom became restricted and we had to pivot the way we do
business. Perhaps I will design a walking stick similar to the staff wielded by
Gandalf from <i>Lord of the Rings: </i>something conveying resilience,
greatness and perhaps even magic. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Walking softly on Mother Earth,
carrying a big stick. When you see me
walking approach me and don’t ask me about any disability. Ask me about my
magic because this is what resilience looks like when you are a proud owner of
a Neo-Walk walking stick!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">PS My stick is also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xl0Qr0uXuY" target="_blank">better than bacon</a>!<o:p></o:p></p>
<!--EndFragment--><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-47745367877854832262021-04-12T09:45:00.009-04:002021-04-12T13:22:26.405-04:00I AM DENE; THEREFORE, I SPEAK DENESULINE<p> </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2M9Y-A_glGQt3VGUnl_bQMEaOtY6cIvZ0odAsu3vMhsSDeh9vJgR1KDzmnMLBeP5B8jKgbiD24kC_0gjQY00Ja6Is3rPFvq7v0wO3FcuwOX3sRxZg5j3T4j4iju1H_M6KjvBbqw93r9Ru/s480/Six+generations+Derangers++copy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2M9Y-A_glGQt3VGUnl_bQMEaOtY6cIvZ0odAsu3vMhsSDeh9vJgR1KDzmnMLBeP5B8jKgbiD24kC_0gjQY00Ja6Is3rPFvq7v0wO3FcuwOX3sRxZg5j3T4j4iju1H_M6KjvBbqw93r9Ru/w398-h265/Six+generations+Derangers++copy.jpg" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> Six generations of incredible Dene women, all fluent Desuline speakers My great grandma,Sophia grandma, Christine Adam my mom, Therese Deranger big sister Dora Flett , her daughter, Donna Deranger, and her baby, Sandra photo taken in the 1970's. Three generations of Dene speakers left in my family, by 2021</blockquote></blockquote><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I was raised in a small northern community
in Alberta, Canada, in the Hamlet of Fort Chipewyan among Cree, Dene, Métis and
non-natives (<i>settlers</i>). Why did I put settlers in italics?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't like to use the term settlers because
I view it as derogatory and dehumanizes a collective group. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, none of us are personally
responsible for the actions of our ancestors. Moreover, in the age of reconciliation
there is no need to shame. Reconciliation will only work if both parties know
their actions have consequences, particularly in current times because we know
better. To perpetuate the term <i>settler</i> does not bring us closer to
reconciliation, but in fact continues to divide us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My parents and my grandparents
spoke <i>Denesuline</i> fluently. Neither my parents nor my grandparents
attended residential schools. We were poor but we spoke our language. As I get older,
I am beginning to appreciate truly the richness of my Dene language and culture.
It was the younger children like me who in my family attended residential
school. You may be aware these schools were created by the government of Canada
to kill the Indian within the child, and by and large it worked. It started
first by preventing us from speaking our language and then creating a feeling
of inferiority surrounding being Indigenous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The culture of residential school perpetuated the feeling of never being
good enough or measuring up to the non-Indigenous population. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I am a product of residential
school at the same time I have the resilience of my ancestors flowing in my
blood. Residential schools created the
conditions for Indigenous peoples to become ashamed of speaking their mother
tongue. I had no choice into which family I would be born, just like those of
European ancestry, which is why I feel strongly not to perpetuate calling them <i>settlers</i>.
Why would I want to shame them? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I have always held pride in the
ability to understand <i>Denesuline</i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Really? To be completely honest
with myself there must have been something holding me back from being able to
speak <i>Denesuline</i> fluently. However, I will not blame residential school
for not speaking my language today. It is ridiculous that I didn't master my
language. After all I was raised hearing the language being spoken all around
me. I should be fluent. But I am not.
And there is no pride in that.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>To say I am proud of being Dene
comes with responsibility. That responsibility and honour is to keep our
language alive. And it is not too late. A good friend, an advocate for keeping<b> </b>the
Blackfoot language alive, Dr. Betty Bastien, once said to me all you need are
two Indigenous speakers to keep a language alive. Thankfully, we have more than that. And after speaking to an author who wrote 90 books
this weekend who said he writes books not about because he knows about something
but rather to learn about a subject, he writes to learn more. It made perfect sense
to me. When I blog I am often trying to
process something I'm going through. He
says we should question. Well, I am on a quest to learn why I am not fluent in
my native tongue, and to change that fact.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>I am taking a stand to ensure
that in the next generation, those under 60 years of age will become fluent in <i>Denesuline</i>.
Beginning with myself. The journey will
begin with asking the question: “Why am I not a fluent speaker already?” </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">When I moved to Ottawa my mother was still
alive, and she kept the language alive for me. But recently I realized that I
didn't know any Dene speakers in Ottawa, and I was losing my fluency. I wasn’t
even hearing it any more. I knew I needed to do something fast before it was
too late. This realization ignited a sense of urgency in me.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">To that end I have made
arrangements for a group of <i>Denesuline</i> speakers to meet monthly, beginning
next month, to visit and speak our language. And since it is a pandemic and we
are all over Canada, this will take place over the phone. I think that the inquiry as to why I am not a
fluent speaker will be something I will be discovering on my own and perhaps
among this group, who have surely all faced challenges in maintaining their
fluency. I want it to be like a group of friends just visiting, like in the old
days. But we will only be speaking <i>Denesuline</i>,
even myself.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the day, I ought to
discover pride for my mother tongue. And more importantly, to help revitalize a
language that is far too close to extinction. Then I can honestly say with satisfaction”
“I am Dene; therefore, I speak <i>Denesuline</i>,” because I will be assuming
my responsibility for keeping <i>Denesuline</i> language alive in honour of my
mother, and ancestors. This is what me being proud of being <i>Denesuline</i>
looks like.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Walking my talk finally, by not
fooling myself.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p> <p><br /></p><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-91734939848152812492021-03-14T16:50:00.001-04:002021-03-14T16:54:27.591-04:00It's Always You<p> </p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DARLING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It’s always been you <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">being little<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">took your voice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you
needed to discover for yourself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the choice was yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the way you wound up being limited, small
unimportant is no accident<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">with an open mind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz15St3jyy7m4WiT6m8TvB-Up5vA7TYQ9n65tfx7XS1UDtvGn_tjiGlhcmTjkjT5B2FRRQXFqB8c2UORYNEoa8cUXNdez9i0uQsYfX7yksB2MD8gW1y_0SNz_SpC29GBPFEU1jidcVDfee/s604/Brothers+and+me+Holy+Angels.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz15St3jyy7m4WiT6m8TvB-Up5vA7TYQ9n65tfx7XS1UDtvGn_tjiGlhcmTjkjT5B2FRRQXFqB8c2UORYNEoa8cUXNdez9i0uQsYfX7yksB2MD8gW1y_0SNz_SpC29GBPFEU1jidcVDfee/s320/Brothers+and+me+Holy+Angels.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Brothers Roger across from me, Rossi next to him and Chris next to me at Holy Angels</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">as delicate as a flower</div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">you realized your story<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">took all your power and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>imprisoned you by giving meaning in that moment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">darling you know, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and you know you know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was always you<br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">you held tight to be right<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">until last night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8I21QN5ie4pW4TPlHGPmVvAyDUooCVAa-YtY4M7tGHCyQ4GWT0Bd4YY6kIS2STTjCgYoy2I85tx_LsRyMl7TwDmUG8GMMSDrQjmNH07vZ5lgZR8UEbu3T0OwD9CRSpF1z6I8JiQncX7e_/s604/Angelina+at+Holy+Angels.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8I21QN5ie4pW4TPlHGPmVvAyDUooCVAa-YtY4M7tGHCyQ4GWT0Bd4YY6kIS2STTjCgYoy2I85tx_LsRyMl7TwDmUG8GMMSDrQjmNH07vZ5lgZR8UEbu3T0OwD9CRSpF1z6I8JiQncX7e_/s320/Angelina+at+Holy+Angels.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My classmates -I am in the back, second from the left.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> L</span>arger,
more powerful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">uncovering you had the key<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>freedom
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">you’re larger than life open to unlimited possibilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">whole and complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And this darling this is you too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<!--EndFragment-->ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-1070531784624779442021-03-14T16:33:00.004-04:002021-03-14T16:33:36.811-04:00A Hero
A Hero <div><br /></div><div>I am taking a leadership course with Unstoppable Communications; it is the second time I have enrolled in this course, completing it last summer in August, 2020. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of the first exercises we did was to discover what word defined leadership. As I pondered the exercise, I discovered that the word I would use to define a leader is being a hero. In particular, someone who undertakes action that no one else would take and at a great cost to themselves. </div><div><br /></div><div>A few days ago, I became aware that a good friend, Dr. John O’Connor, has been honoured. He received the first ever award from Ryerson University for being a whistleblower. John received this award for drawing attention to unusual incidence of bile cancer in Fort Chipewyan, in Northern Alberta. This is my home community. He linked Cholangiocarcinoma (bile cancer) to pollution resulted from the oilsands industry. </div><div><br /></div><div>His actions came at great cost to him both personally and professionally, if you have been paying attention to any of the conversations around the oilsands you will know that the backlash was swift and severe. His actions resulted in complaints from his professional colleagues that led the Alberta Medical Association to suspend his license to practice medicine. </div><div><br /></div><div>As an Indigenous woman from the community of Fort Chipewyan I view Dr. O’Connor's actions as courageous. </div><div><br /></div><div>He put his reputation at risk to raise awareness of the damage being done not only to the environment but also to the very people who live on the land. His actions are not only brave but also demonstrate his integrity. In a news article I read he is reported to have said he was only doing his job as a physician. His fight took years before he received validation on his concern regarding incidence of bile cancer, but by then the damage to his personal reputation was marred. </div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzPwEdFqq2yjfQ2Kj25lPT9_qtgdNt6DMVrgKFeO-ZNKCLiObcLrlvhs77JCPKIAfQrPzQP2fTG4Od3bTkZ8hEckTYXnfOKRqTOnhSunpCYYqyX9QFf9ED3CM4vNbA2SeiIqH8nVRdwty/s1040/+John+an+Char+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1040" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzPwEdFqq2yjfQ2Kj25lPT9_qtgdNt6DMVrgKFeO-ZNKCLiObcLrlvhs77JCPKIAfQrPzQP2fTG4Od3bTkZ8hEckTYXnfOKRqTOnhSunpCYYqyX9QFf9ED3CM4vNbA2SeiIqH8nVRdwty/s320/+John+an+Char+.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. John O'Connor and his wife Char</td></tr></tbody></table>When he took a stand for my community’s health and well-being, he inspired my Chief Allan Adam to take up a political fight against industry and the damage caused by the pollution. Having someone in the medical profession with credibility created the collaboration he needed, and the Chief was able to use the studies on the pollution to move his agenda forward, with a campaign against industry’s destruction that and raised funding for the community to take his fight through the courts. </div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt1LYk-_BfiI8LA2c1Cu7Z0FPnowCFeSNbDCiOqdmkk7qnrOuEU9uuiAqE8v-Ku707KfDValsQtVD6ZAIcRrx0XuoetlAMzZLSP6nRyRglM3qB22cvwqnI8a3vVK8L9bdwIvPzDulkqtWI/s500/Yiyo+and+Alex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt1LYk-_BfiI8LA2c1Cu7Z0FPnowCFeSNbDCiOqdmkk7qnrOuEU9uuiAqE8v-Ku707KfDValsQtVD6ZAIcRrx0XuoetlAMzZLSP6nRyRglM3qB22cvwqnI8a3vVK8L9bdwIvPzDulkqtWI/s320/Yiyo+and+Alex.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chief Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and his father Alex</td></tr></tbody></table>Without Dr. O’Connor’s actions I believe no one would have made the link between Cholangiocarcinoma and the oil industry in northern Alberta.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Only Dr. O’Connor could have made this link. First, he had prior awareness of this rare disease from a case in his own family. As a result, he was able to recognize it and also to realize how unusual it was when he first saw it in the community. Second, when he noticed the occurrence was higher in the community of 1500 souls it was his good character and sense of duty that led him to sound the alarm in spite of the negative consequences to his reputation.</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>Who else would take this kind of risk for an isolated Indigenous community? I echo his call for an independent research study of Cholangiocarcinoma in the community of Fort Chipewyan and surrounding communities in the region of the oil industry. I am extremely honored to call him a friend. </div><div><br /></div><div>He is an extraordinary leader, a hero. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>PS I sent a draft of this post to Dr. O’Connor and he replied: “The connection between pollution and cancers in the community hasn’t been formally made-despite the numbers, the documented toxin exposure and the U of M 2014 report-that’s where the health study comes in. Science hand in hand with Traditional Knowledge would complete the picture. Otherwise this is perfect!” </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you, John!
</div>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-27039666358938307432021-02-07T06:26:00.019-05:002021-02-09T08:12:04.835-05:00FAMILY COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, Is it a product of technology?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlLiKJesy__RH-MCVlqzTEQLxrCKT5OZ8okn0nsnx8wUBxwUO20ARuLQ8KoGYUoYmWgJheKqEvtiAqs9M5vIgv6-3-IjrTybYqJnT4qAFy3bBfmo793CJEwj2Uqw8UayNwhUx80SpIi_5/s1791/IMG_4710-EFFECTS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1791" data-original-width="1433" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlLiKJesy__RH-MCVlqzTEQLxrCKT5OZ8okn0nsnx8wUBxwUO20ARuLQ8KoGYUoYmWgJheKqEvtiAqs9M5vIgv6-3-IjrTybYqJnT4qAFy3bBfmo793CJEwj2Uqw8UayNwhUx80SpIi_5/w512-h459/IMG_4710-EFFECTS.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Family, Can't Live with them, Can't live Without them </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"> We are Good People </h4><div><br /></div><div>First, my family is normal and probably no more dysfunctional than the average family. But it is extremely large and spread over much of Canada, Hawaii, and Australia. That said, many members of the family can be triggered quickly. And I know it is unfair that I set them up occasionally with a provocative comment or text. Most of the family uses Facebook to keep in touch. Technology is not a good substitute for face-to-face conversation. </div><div><br /></div><div>I don't understand why we behave as we sometimes do that causes emotional upset. Most of the time we can laugh and enjoy being together. However,lately, largely due to the global pandemic, in person contact is rare and that is just part of the problem. more and more we have become reliant on keeping in touch electronically. We have photos and memories. I enjoy posting photos of family get-togethers, it brings back fond memories. And this is how this particular upset started. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I have a picture with the nephew we are both smiling. He has blocked and removed me on Facebook. Occasionally I will take out the photo and look at his smiling face arms around me. I vividly remember the moment the photo was taken. And it makes me smile knowing we were once close. I don't cringe when I see photos of him. I know he gossips about me to family members and I don't care. I don't know if he wants to erased me from his life, and his past. These are his issues to work out on his own. </div><div><br /></div><div>In this blog I have intentionally posted pictures of good times. I want to create lasting memories of the closeness we feel as family the ease we weave in and out of our relationship, regardless of time and distance. At the same time, some members of the family will not like some photos I post. It is important to remember that all they are is a facsimile of a person or event. And they hold no power other than what you give them. More importantly, not seeing any photos of you with the person you now want to distance from does not erase the history you had with that person. It does not mean you never had happiness around that person it does not undo the relationship, or tie with that person. </div><div> </div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Context</h3><div><br /></div><div>Most Of the family know I manage the private family group page on Facebook. This morning as I was posting and updating the family page something occurred to make me reconsider why I maintain that page. By and large I am cognizant of our differences and make every attempt not to create waves and upset contrary to what I said earlier. When it comes to family I don't go out of my way to upset them. Today, I made a choice to include some family photos, not the one I was asked to remove from Facebook. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">When I updated the family group page with the photo of a father, his wife, and adult son. The parents are estranged. No sooner had photograph been posted I received a message asking that it be removed, no explanation just "please remove." I was shocked to be asked that. The request didn't come from any of the people in the picture. I responded why? "Because neither of them associate with him" this meant that the wife and son do not associate with the estranged husband/ father or want to be associated with him." It's a very personal family matter". I removed the photograph. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honestly all I was aware of his they were separated and as in most separations there are accusations. I don't know the details. Was it so horrific that they now want to erase any evidence that they knew each other or are family? I removed the photograph from the group as requested, and it is not posted here. </span></div><div>However doing so made me angry because I started to wonder when did we become so intolerant that a single photo can creates conflict. And then I thought of other family members who are estranged and then questioned whether I shouldn't be posting pictures of them either. Where will it end? </div><div><br /></div><div>My first instinct was to remove the entire Facebook group and close it down. But on further consideration I decided to leave it and let the members to decide if it should be removed. Another option is that I leave the group and allow someone else to manage it. As I thought about the relationship among the members it occurred to me that many have distanced himself themselves from, each other going as far as removing and blocking each other in social media, essentially ghosting each other I don't want to be put into a position of having to consider each photo I post and whether or not it will create conflict and upset, particularly if I don't know the whole story of every relationship in the family. </div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Why I Created A Family Page</h4><div><br /></div><div>The question I asked myself today is why I created the family page in the first instance? It was with good intentions because at the time, a few years ago I was creating a database of our family tree after my Mom was admitted to long-term care upon breaking her hip. She was then 87 years old. I kept it going after raising the question of whether it should stay or if I should remove it after Mom passed at age 96. Many family members expressly wanted it to stay. It seemed a safe place for family to catch up on family news. I rotate the pictures of family in the group occasionally. It was a way of helping a diverse family stay in touch throughout the years and to remember past times when we were all closer.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Early Years</h3><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xhHk7VBqHKi6Vfu26B5SCUOinY36_1oFCtxfgUtHFhhOaCRyZUHzDJk0LyS8TdXXSlN3K3PE2EFOv3XFaYKdZzt1GqbuXBTUoWWsPXhv0R-VsWz_NkotLC5fsdrneKPb4CiWjLPv0q2W/s2048/C0C14041-6DF7-4967-8B15-D68BA2B938AB.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xhHk7VBqHKi6Vfu26B5SCUOinY36_1oFCtxfgUtHFhhOaCRyZUHzDJk0LyS8TdXXSlN3K3PE2EFOv3XFaYKdZzt1GqbuXBTUoWWsPXhv0R-VsWz_NkotLC5fsdrneKPb4CiWjLPv0q2W/w150-h200/C0C14041-6DF7-4967-8B15-D68BA2B938AB.jpeg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">My parents, uncles and aunts</span></td></tr></tbody></table></h4><div> </div><div>Growing up as the youngest girl with 10 brothers and five sisters what I valued most in my family is our humour and that no one took themselves seriously. It is this seamless relationship between all of us that I miss. If we don't see each other for months we can pick up where we left off easily as though it happened just days earlier without any awkwardness. For the most part, we are accepting of each other and willing to help where possible. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I got older our relationships became more complicated. divisions occurred for political reasons. instead of talking it through I was ostracized. I was raised with the expectation that we respect our elders. I never witnessed any of us younger ones challenging or being disrespectful to an elder of the family or in the community. Moreover we would not ever resort to swearing or calling names to our parents or anyone else for that matter. I know my aunts and uncles were not saints. No one is above making mistakes. including and especially me. </div><div><br /></div><div>Furthermore, I don't recall anyone being so angry as to not speak with another member in the household, certainly not ghosting anyone. Granted it wouldn't have happened then because you would see each other every day and be forced to work things out. It is hard to ignore someone when you are a large family in a small house!</div><div><br /></div><div>The behaviours we are now witnessing were adopted many years later when we all took to social media such as Facebook. The nature of social media makes it easier not to work out disagreements face-to-face. If you don't see each other face-to-face you don't have to take responsibility for freezing them out and it is easier to remove and block. I know, I have been tempted myself sometimes but I nearly always resisted the urge to remove and block family. </div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"> The Cognitive Dissonance</h4><div><br /></div><div>What I am experiencing at the moment is noticing more and more nieces, nephews and cousins disrespecting aunts and uncles when individually they are good people and by and large they treat each other respectfully. So why disrespect family? </div><div><br /></div><div>We are all learning during the pandemic there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction when we are dealing with emotional matters. It is too easy to block a person, or respond with a few keystrokes in a moment of anger. It is harder to back away from a nasty comment when it is in black and white and they don't have the ability to hug or share a meal together and talk things out. </div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Outsider</h3><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I left the family early and made a life for myself in Edmonton, attending University there and then working for a federal Commission in Ottawa, I got married and stayed in Ottawa. When I moved to Ottawa I thought it was going to be for two or three years. I have now been in Ottawa for 28 years. </div><div><br /></div><div>I don't believe my childhood created any identifiable trauma within the family. However, I admit those of us who attended Residential School have trauma and we carried that trauma when we got older and passed it on to our children. That is referred to as intergenerational trauma. This is photograph of the residential school and church where trauma began for some of my family. Not posting the picture in this particular blog will not change what happened. But it might help us face what happen and acknowledging what happened can give us strength and purpose. It is a matter of perspective. It is part of our collective past and can explain how we behave in our present. </div><div><br /></div><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj28Qnir2I22aCuu9NfR-zO19siSzuC4tgbrX_pM23nHRvzmse8XXpSnrCJcQluhT2AG7i6urfIC7iEYMCWe3_Dv_kfRWtKktPZfy8nAB0KqvLIwrBqXgh8_bQtp8y3dLkox5VxS8XdgZQn/s516/Mission+chruch+chip.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj28Qnir2I22aCuu9NfR-zO19siSzuC4tgbrX_pM23nHRvzmse8XXpSnrCJcQluhT2AG7i6urfIC7iEYMCWe3_Dv_kfRWtKktPZfy8nAB0KqvLIwrBqXgh8_bQtp8y3dLkox5VxS8XdgZQn/s320/Mission+chruch+chip.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> </div><div>As I unpacked my family relationship, I begin to consider that I might indeed be an outsider now. Because it is an explanation of the disrespect I felt. It is easier to throw assaults on someone you considered outside your group, similar to the cliques in high school. The popular kids would view other kids as not meeting their expectation to be allowed in their group. </div><div><br /></div><div>When you create division, it is easier to see the others as "them and us" where even the word "family" holds less power. That said most of the family I feel respect and accept me. But there are some who hold the view that I am judgmental, and that is okay. </div><div><br /></div><div>I can be open to the possibility that I may sometimes be judgmental, to be seen as on a high horse, dispensing disapproval, even. It is a possibility that some hold that truth. The one distinction that sets me apart from most of the family is that I have never been addicted to drugs or alcohol. I never saw the sense of what people call "partying". That doesn't mean I looked down on those who have problems with addiction, or that I didn't understand their struggle. I made other choices. As a further unpacked my relationship with my family I considered that perhaps my online presence created some of the disconnect. </div><h4 style="text-align: left;">My Online Presence</h4><div><br /></div><div>I believe that my online presence is authentic. I don't intentionally post a false betrayal of my life and I certainly don't post with the intention to brag about my life or make others feel as their lives are lacking. I will not apologize for having made the right choices in my life and creating a life that is drama free. I accentuate the positive aspects of my life. I could post about my medical challenges. I could bemoan the fact that I live in a remote place and I have not been able to drive a car for years after losing my license because of medical reasons and I now have to depend on others to take me to appointments. But that is not why I blog or why I post on social media. In particular, blogging is how I process what happens in my life. What I post on Facebook are memories and insights I enjoy sharing. </div><div><br /></div><div>Most of my online post are of the beautiful view of the Ottawa River from my living room. It is something I value. I hold nature and the environment in a high importance because of the beauty and happiness it brings me. I assure you it is not to brag but rather to share and hope that it brings you happiness as well. It is a spectacular view and even more extraordinary in person seeing it with the naked eye. I feel some members of the family may see that and perhaps think of me as one of the fortunate ones. Indeed, I am extremely grateful in particular for the view I see every day and generally for my life which affords me a drama free existence. I like that I am always looking at the positive aspects of my life. </div><div><br /></div><div>As a longtime meditator I know that I have created an inner awareness peace and discipline. I am able to reflect and respond and not overreact to perceived slights perhaps being aware and in control of my emotions might appear to be a threat and others may receive it as I feel superior to them. But I am confident in who I am, being raised in a large family I wound up being compassionate. And it is just one of the many facets of who I choose to be.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Conclusion</h3><div><br /></div><div>I am absolutely a complex human being, as most of us are. I can be ironic and at the same time I am genuine and authentic. Earlier this week I decided to limit which family members I accept into my life, not because I'm better than anyone but just because I want to limit conflict. </div><div><br /></div><div>Family dynamics can be a minefield and we have to tread carefully if we don't want to be blown up. I'm extremely grateful for my upbringing coming from a large family and I have developed tools to navigate conflicts and they serve me well. we are born into our family for the most part. Remembering that we all make mistakes will help us have more compassion and acceptance. </div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">My Perspective</h3><div><br /></div><div>As an avid reader, recently I have read a number of books written by Holocaust survivors and children of murdered Jewish families. What struck me was their immense capacity to forgive the atrocities done to them. It is mind-boggling because of the contrasts between that forgiveness and inflated petty accusations from family members. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of the first Holocaust related books I read is <i>Man's Search For Meaning</i> <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;">is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl, chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. Another is <i>The Gift</i> by Edith Eger. Both her parents were killed on the day they arrived at the concentration camp. She reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering to the benefit of others and in doing that she finds freedom. What I got from these books is that bad things will happen, indeed horrific and terrible things will happen. It is how you react to the events that matters. Your perspective that will save you. What Frankl says is that no matter what happens to you, you always have a choice and the the ability to change your perspective, to give it meaning and purpose and use that to give you strength to endure. After my medical crisis it was those words that helped me regain my strength.</span></div><div><span style="color: #202124;"><br /></span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yOf36XIwvhCOUhb3REKmkowLJbG6jEkd8xLGKWAp18tFfQg6gIl4bG-Fz1OTmqy-BgpnxdQ_AmrexdOwFoJolb1M2qz3tNUhq1O75sG2omCiHLQto1Kqa7tGhSwxchsnbIB-ybZnLuo9/s1024/Mama%252C+Rossi%252C+and+Me+%2528angelina%2529+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yOf36XIwvhCOUhb3REKmkowLJbG6jEkd8xLGKWAp18tFfQg6gIl4bG-Fz1OTmqy-BgpnxdQ_AmrexdOwFoJolb1M2qz3tNUhq1O75sG2omCiHLQto1Kqa7tGhSwxchsnbIB-ybZnLuo9/s320/Mama%252C+Rossi%252C+and+Me+%2528angelina%2529+.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfR3qbCGp315pMDXxU0bODuK8-93CaqoR5ydLX3Bj90Bl2G0aYOgOzkJwvLQ1sX8H3NeYj4miqcT4XkpOS6Dj-nFYDu55KsOqcaP1tmO8DVFxGU_svBOR6DaqGrL0CD5JkForbUYB44ycx/s320/A717C050-5FC5-4058-B391-31035C1214E7.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The view from my window</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMV4U_rMgG_hM8-7WaqmkCisHbc3-7MLoBvOjsXYH-kmVf6CkTgW0HcrlpXMcwap7nV15D9SXKzD3bjl6W-BkoA6pXh-dbrVbUsSCEWKSsMyVeT-lrVYimyDOAqEGcdR6t0nXUzWCFIm2/s500/ACC773F0-A088-4A5C-B2CB-09E505355D6F.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMV4U_rMgG_hM8-7WaqmkCisHbc3-7MLoBvOjsXYH-kmVf6CkTgW0HcrlpXMcwap7nV15D9SXKzD3bjl6W-BkoA6pXh-dbrVbUsSCEWKSsMyVeT-lrVYimyDOAqEGcdR6t0nXUzWCFIm2/s320/ACC773F0-A088-4A5C-B2CB-09E505355D6F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> My late mom and my son, Andrew, her last grandchild. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46RF7F5O2aY3jSsZvwxMkr3vWlLMeRXll0fGhFQ09iIlaPOQNdUfzInlwRL2j0EUxj-LnjcqDf-QSl0CzbUyvVshYz5ga2J8CZTmED_UN4NBwWy9S22oxmWYLrWU7gtcj3dheo6fq6EdG/s2048/A8B717F8-1076-4B7E-B52A-6B4964DFBCA5.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46RF7F5O2aY3jSsZvwxMkr3vWlLMeRXll0fGhFQ09iIlaPOQNdUfzInlwRL2j0EUxj-LnjcqDf-QSl0CzbUyvVshYz5ga2J8CZTmED_UN4NBwWy9S22oxmWYLrWU7gtcj3dheo6fq6EdG/s320/A8B717F8-1076-4B7E-B52A-6B4964DFBCA5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">An older brother, Fred and older sister, Annie Mercredi </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8hoOeYe-Qm4pIRlpdw7g75riSguImcrl5K3-0_hv08Vp5L1jROb5aeuJsE1QCtBjnjOAEAEA_bOCHsRkiju5SC7lrPV1KZlY4mt1ZvdGczosoFC3lNkRmDu6mpcDvrDhTRl2dIM5AZmS-/s1199/A9C539D4-1572-4C51-9C64-EEE88ABC18BE.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8hoOeYe-Qm4pIRlpdw7g75riSguImcrl5K3-0_hv08Vp5L1jROb5aeuJsE1QCtBjnjOAEAEA_bOCHsRkiju5SC7lrPV1KZlY4mt1ZvdGczosoFC3lNkRmDu6mpcDvrDhTRl2dIM5AZmS-/s320/A9C539D4-1572-4C51-9C64-EEE88ABC18BE.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">My late uncle and aunt, a cousin, Norma Jean, and my nephew Dean</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEU8zZWgheuUp-c4-WnivY_MP2tPWWPC0_QfZ9gP2-PbTcOH17Bi_FCG_MzlT85YPMKm_pGv4vAWYhlGXVaSYFZS-COE_8djkJqlrFelYLrobRya3jw-A3b-1wFJT21dldzYqpMeua1txO/s960/mama%252C+andrew%252C+Jenelle.+.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEU8zZWgheuUp-c4-WnivY_MP2tPWWPC0_QfZ9gP2-PbTcOH17Bi_FCG_MzlT85YPMKm_pGv4vAWYhlGXVaSYFZS-COE_8djkJqlrFelYLrobRya3jw-A3b-1wFJT21dldzYqpMeua1txO/s320/mama%252C+andrew%252C+Jenelle.+.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Me, my son, Mom, my daughter and granddaughter</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div> </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCfRRmO-feMN3T7ghOx8BHYpaw9SH5sYqWnoUd_WxWNo5qfhLOUH1SalLBJ3N25BOuV9tSZLGAfDOqr46qo4LVQ-rIDLL4OT0FlwTK8onlOBO-fJDkIzHCEIKr3vlqMk4Gb7Nh9DK3fDi/s720/Mama+and+boys.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCfRRmO-feMN3T7ghOx8BHYpaw9SH5sYqWnoUd_WxWNo5qfhLOUH1SalLBJ3N25BOuV9tSZLGAfDOqr46qo4LVQ-rIDLL4OT0FlwTK8onlOBO-fJDkIzHCEIKr3vlqMk4Gb7Nh9DK3fDi/s320/Mama+and+boys.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family group of the Males with Mom </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTSX3gsqWs2MADVzvFd91__pgIr-1Sv_jTLbnLdrzWKqNZZ11Dllvc56t_VKuJsrHQvBW4Jb8U4uD605yrvqYjE5abC07iXkHnVAXiINxavJIFUr5jg7nGWWI5hKvuLQafy4rUnTVDOZ9/s720/Mama%2527s+children+.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTSX3gsqWs2MADVzvFd91__pgIr-1Sv_jTLbnLdrzWKqNZZ11Dllvc56t_VKuJsrHQvBW4Jb8U4uD605yrvqYjE5abC07iXkHnVAXiINxavJIFUr5jg7nGWWI5hKvuLQafy4rUnTVDOZ9/s320/Mama%2527s+children+.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family group at mom's 93rd Birthday Females </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-27048145600869917162020-12-28T07:01:00.008-05:002020-12-28T07:22:41.665-05:00 2021, LET'S DO THIS <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGM56yuRkU8VxOmo8KpsA-qPMKQmTQ0uWvHidrzUFNG3rSOvCAcUqcAapvJVQjIBwxAdJ0pry6_e9JJkNYRjAL8GA-Lv_9ROvU_a6UOE8ZZXAhOwx480_xO3N3jppRjC4HA58DWRiZWwX/s2048/BD90A235-6587-4E0F-9FDF-ED78C04B5972.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGM56yuRkU8VxOmo8KpsA-qPMKQmTQ0uWvHidrzUFNG3rSOvCAcUqcAapvJVQjIBwxAdJ0pry6_e9JJkNYRjAL8GA-Lv_9ROvU_a6UOE8ZZXAhOwx480_xO3N3jppRjC4HA58DWRiZWwX/w240-h320/BD90A235-6587-4E0F-9FDF-ED78C04B5972.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Some of the themes I will continue to write about in the new year are happiness, mindfulness, movement, gratitude, reflections on climate change, health and childhood trauma. I will also continue to learn new information daily. I am excited to see the possibilities in the new year. I wonder what upgrades the Tesla will develop. And what adventures are planned for the space industry. like everyone on the planet I am looking forward to a COVID vaccine, and people being able to hug each other once again. </p><p></p><p>I made some resolutions at the end of 2019. They were pretty much the same as in previous years. I said I would read 90 books, but what actually happened is I spent more time listening to podcasts and only read about 60 books. I am not going to make resolutions this year because I am going to continue doing what I've always been doing keeping an open mind and learning. </p><p>Inasmuch as we are anticipating that 2021 will be different, we should be prepared for much of the same. And we also should be asking questions like: “How can we thrive in more of the same environment? What can we do differently to ensure we are grateful, happy, and thriving? More importantly, how can we maintain our humanity?”</p><p></p><p>I am encouraged by teenager Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg. In her plea on March 15, 2019 she said: “Our house is on fire, I want you to panic.” That simple statement drove 1.6 million young people onto the streets for better climate protection and by extension the survival of 7 billion humans on this planet.</p><p></p><p>At the end of 2019 I had no idea or even a desire to create a federal charitable foundation, or to produce and host a podcast. But both things happened. These are the two things I am most proud of achieving during a global pandemic. The federal charitable foundation is a continuation of the work that I did as chair of <a href="https://nechi.com/" target="_blank">Nechi Institute Center of Indigenous Learning.</a> When I resigned from the Board of Governors in August, I felt my work was incomplete. My desire to help Indigenous people understand and recover from substance abuse was still strong. I couldn't just walk away without having something in that space.</p><p></p><p>I founded Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training. <a href="https://seventhgift.ca/" target="_blank">(G.I.F.T.) </a>and to help promote the foundation I am producing and hosting the Empathetic Witness podcast. It is inviting people to a conversation to unpack and to begin the process of decolonization on areas that impact Indigenous peoples’ life. I produced three episodes in 2020, one inviting you to a conversation on decolonizing addictions, and another on decolonizing Indigenous adoptions.</p><p></p><p>I ended the year with a powerful and contentious conversation about decolonizing Indigenous Storytelling with Dr. Betty Bastien Professor of Social Work at the University of Calgary, Alberta. Questions discussed were:</p><p></p><p></p><p>· Does the media like CBC hold some responsibility in perpetuating and promoting self-identifying as Indigenous? In the example of Michelle Latimer we can assume she got a CBC job producing a documentary series – at least in part -- because she claimed to have an Indigenous identity.</p><p>· The language we use, and its contexts are important. Are there specific terms that we should be avoiding, and what terms should we use instead?</p><p>· When our stories are told from a perspective that is not our own, what harm is it creating?</p><p>· If it is an Indigenous person telling these stories on Indigenous themes is a native person that has never lived in the community and who has been raised in a city and never lived a"</p><p>typical” indigenous experience in an indigenous community, do they have a right to tell the story? I can think of my granddaughters who live in Hawaii, who have not been raised around my brothers and sisters, who have limited understanding of the challenges we faced, can they at some point in their life if they wanted to write a book, do research, produce documentaries on Indigenous themes and will their work be accepted Some of the themes I will continue in the new year are happiness, mindfulness, movement, gratitude, reflections on climate change, health and childhood trauma. Once the final podcast has been edited I will post it here. </p><p></p><p>I am encouraged by teenager Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg. In her plea on March 15, 2019 she said: “Our house is on fire, I want you to panic.” That simple statement drove 1.6 million young people onto the streets for better climate protection and by extension the survival of 7 billion humans on this planet.</p><p></p><p>I ended the year with a powerful and contentious conversation about decolonizing Indigenous Storytelling with Dr. Betty Bastien Professor of Social Work at the University of Calgary, Alberta. in particular we discussed the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/trickster-producers-resign-michelle-latimer-1.5848094" target="_blank">Michelle Latimer controversy</a> Questions discussed were:</p><p></p><p></p><p>· Does the media like CBC hold some responsibility in perpetuating and promoting self-identifying as Indigenous? In the example of Michelle Latimer we can assume she got a CBC job producing a documentary series – at least in part -- because she claimed to have an Indigenous identity.</p><p>· The language we use, and its contexts are important. Are there specific terms that we should be avoiding, and what terms should we use instead?</p><p>· When our stories are told from a perspective that is not our own, what harm is it creating?</p><p>· If it is an Indigenous person telling these stories on Indigenous themes is a native person that has never lived in the community and who has been raised in a city and never lived a"</p><p>typical” indigenous experience in an indigenous community, do they have a right to tell the story? I can think of my granddaughters who live in Hawaii, who have not been raised around my brothers and sisters, who have limited understanding of the challenges we faced, can they at some point in their life if they wanted to write a book, do research, produce documentaries on Indigenous themes and will their work be accepted as authentic? And who has the legitimate right to tell our stories?</p><p>· What can we do now to preserve our stories in the most authentic way?</p><p></p><p>My intention for 2021 is to promote, support and encourage family members to realize their dreams in 2021. <a href="https://gitzcrazyboy.com/" target="_blank">My nephew Gitz Crazyboy</a> has been very busy. He published a children's book, and accepted a number of interviews to promote his book, 'Secret of the Stars' from as far away as Australia. </p><p>2020I am not sad to see you go. Thank you for teaching me lessons of patients, acceptance and to dig deep to find gratitude in adversity. it has made me stronger and more determined to be of service to others. </p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-48023328925115669292020-12-19T09:37:00.023-05:002020-12-21T12:36:54.909-05:00DECEMBER 2020 A BRAVE NEW WORLD AWAITS<div class="separator"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE11Y3ZmToER2tCsuPSwjGpQjgIYy9F2vUOVYMiSRf5j_XqULuis869KYXtmKw6wGf1V8nYO0YUWugrqZ6X_DHjpXvAh1P5pqtCidwXNHwg8dEyGrbUp7YJla4-xDTZ2iAc2bB4gzx4QSF/s1440/December+19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE11Y3ZmToER2tCsuPSwjGpQjgIYy9F2vUOVYMiSRf5j_XqULuis869KYXtmKw6wGf1V8nYO0YUWugrqZ6X_DHjpXvAh1P5pqtCidwXNHwg8dEyGrbUp7YJla4-xDTZ2iAc2bB4gzx4QSF/s320/December+19.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p style="text-align: center;"> <b> Reflection on the Year 2020</b></p><p>No one could have predicted what an epic shift 2020 would deliver I will not focus on the negative aspects of the year. Enough of that I say. I will be focusing on our internal power source. It goes without saying that I am not alone in wanting this year to be over! But at the same time, I am a realist. At the stroke of midnight on 2021 COVID 19 will still be wreaking havoc. It will not mysteriously disappear, and we can't pretend otherwise. That said, it has been my longtime belief that how we deal with adversity builds character. </p><p>I am going to write about how I was able to keep my sanity and gratitude in spite of the loss of seven immediate family members in this past year alone. It is all about perspective. </p><p>As we go into the New Year will you behave as you did in 2020? Are there lessons you have learned? Will you be a better version of yourself? To answer these questions it is helpful if you reflect back on the year as I am doing now. Look at what you overcame and how you came out at the end of the year more determined, with more strength and with a clear perspective. Focus on what you have achieved, not what you have lost. </p><p>When was the moment you first realize that "the new normal" would be a description for something that was anything <i>but</i> normal? Stupid words sprinkled our everyday life, diminishing our freedom. Words like "new normal," " pivot," "uncertainty" and "social distancing." WTF! </p><p>Like most of us, it was in March, and COVID was tightening its grip on the world. Public places began shutting down. We were asked to socially distance to protect those we love. We adapted to the restrictions, albeit with some resistance. But on the whole we complied. Eventually, weeks turned into months. Now we are approaching the one year mark. We had no idea how long it would last. However, I did know nevertheless that a pandemic was going to change the lives of millions of people globally, and unfortunately some did not make it. </p><p>Let me tell you a story </p><p>I survived a pandemic when I was a toddler, In the early 1960s I was personally struck by a different global pandemic, polio. Although a polio vaccine was developed in 1955, before I was born, I got infected, I suspect because I lived in a northern Indigenous community and I had not yet been vaccinated. I have little memory of that period of my life. Fortunately for me I recovered. Like many polio survivors it made me resilient and gave me an indomitable spirit and maybe a little stubbornness, which probably stands me in good stead. :)</p><p>From all historical accounts it seems that the human population is reacting exactly as it did in previous pandemics. As with COVID, polio was caused by a virus. Panic was all-consuming and because it struck children, and as a result all swimming pools, playgrounds, and schools were closed. Hygiene became important, it was widely believe that the virus was spread through feces because of unclean hands. Fear and panic swept across the country's like wildfire. The World Health Organization rapidly worked to develop a vaccine. It was like today's COVID-19. Humans are a complicated lot and in previous pandemics we behaved out of fear and panic. </p><p>Speaking of which, much of the same reaction is taking place today. An avalanche of fear and panic has taken over. In the earlier pandemic there was a resistance to wearing masks too. And then too, usually well-behaved folks began a frenzied buying spree. This past year, for some reason toilet paper disappeared off the shelves. This was anything but normal. The next nine months was like living in a movie and we were the stars in our own drama. </p><p>As far as I can tell there is no hero to save the day. Only a malicious character who told unbelievable tales and created division, fear and hatred among everybody including families. The deadliest thing he did was to question the science to address the virus. This will go down in history as the deadliest pandemic to face man. And the worst possible person was there to mishandle the pandemic.</p><p>The American election of 2020 created a much-needed diversion for a short time. it was short-lived diversion, and the countries around the world prepared for more shutdowns and restrictions. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsP2GQXAnJNsdoGnLBNr6x8-cF8IBIDc74qZUzFAYvkkO6U9E2oh2Ru9EmFBzmyFS8BSBot39jxSuiZwwqzMHsbaQeNmgVriJADEF6W1zK4thd_1Mn4IBhC32ygqIzKy9Jv8-OSCXs-Uc/s1791/IMG_4710-EFFECTS.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1791" data-original-width="1433" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsP2GQXAnJNsdoGnLBNr6x8-cF8IBIDc74qZUzFAYvkkO6U9E2oh2Ru9EmFBzmyFS8BSBot39jxSuiZwwqzMHsbaQeNmgVriJADEF6W1zK4thd_1Mn4IBhC32ygqIzKy9Jv8-OSCXs-Uc/s320/IMG_4710-EFFECTS.jpg" /></a></div><p>I did what I usually do I made up my mind to get through this. I had to watch my reaction to what was happening. And to be a cause in my own life. In other words to take action for my own happiness and sanity. What helped me is taking <a href="https://unstoppableconversations.com/courses/being-a-leader/" target="_blank">Being a Leader Leadership course </a>at the beginning of the pandemic. This course provided me the tools to put into action what I already knew, that it is important to do something for others that is bigger than myself. I created and produced a podcast to start a national conversation on the impact of colonization on indigenous peoples. The last podcast was on <a href="https://empathetic-witness.captivate.fm/episode/decolonizing-adoption-with-dr-jeannine-carriere" target="_blank">Decolonizing Adoption.</a> </p><p>And I registered for courses and, as an enthusiastic reader I read a number of books on challenging historical periods. The first book I read was T<i>he Great Influenza</i> an account of the Spanish flu in 1918, T<i>he Children of the Holocaust</i> by Helen Epstein, <i>Man's Search for Meaning</i> by Viktor E Frankl. Frankl's main point is that when one found purpose and meaning to their life it generated happiness and a reason to live and thrive. These books speak to the triumph over horrific and unspeakable trauma. Hubby led me to the writing of Italian Holocaust survivor and scientist Primo Levi, what an extraordinary writer! The common thread that helped people survive and perhaps thrive in these horrific events is their perspective. Frankl's point is when one found purpose and meaning to their life it went a long way to create happiness and a reason to live. These accounts speak to triumph over horrific and unspeakable trauma. It is within all our capacity to overcome trauma. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I registered for a couple of courses on compassionate inquiry, how to address trauma in an understanding and gentle manner. It made perfect sense to me to start there because as I understood it we were all experiencing collective trauma. </span><span style="text-align: left;">This brings me to our mental health. How is your mental health?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Having a greater grasp on emotional understanding correlates to increased happiness and satisfaction, along with better management of stress, while a lack of emotional balance has been linked to poor outcomes with physical health issues. The question becomes how can we achieve emotional balance when we don't fully understand what our emotions are telling us. To that end, I recommend reading Suzanne David's <i>Emotional Agility</i>, a Wall Street Journal best-selling book. It describes the psychological skills critical to thriving in times of complexity and change. Her advice is to not listen to our negative internal chatter. This can be more difficult than it appears because more often than not it is at an unconscious level. </span></div><p style="text-align: left;">As a longtime meditator, I know that you cannot simply tell your mind not to think of stuff. Our minds are naturally prone to streams of thought. The primary goal in meditation is to notice when you have started going down a rabbit hole of thoughts and gently bring yourself back to your focus. Most times it is your breath over and over again. An important skill in meditation I have learned is to accept and not change what is going on internally, to view it with curiosity and to notice it without judgment. Meditation is a form of mental dexterity. </p><p style="text-align: left;">To navigate the pandemic I looked to my Indigenous history for lessons of the past like adaptability. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEXJwJ_KevKD1buSgVe2XEhetbhC2qxdEkqAeHuRa5hcrg3VJmCtaXPEfwmISmhQmfDpubcJuS1qHCwnESEpnGbOsv6QpCbUZN5XkYEHPi4WytDFrHDccXGsaWlcheGGcZF85WBmAXhAi/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEXJwJ_KevKD1buSgVe2XEhetbhC2qxdEkqAeHuRa5hcrg3VJmCtaXPEfwmISmhQmfDpubcJuS1qHCwnESEpnGbOsv6QpCbUZN5XkYEHPi4WytDFrHDccXGsaWlcheGGcZF85WBmAXhAi/" width="319" /></a></div><br /> to survive one must adapt. This was especially true to people living from the land. Adaptation leads to creativity, growth and survival. I often reflect on how my Mom who had 16 children did it. The resilience she must have had. I manifested my mother's inner strength and resilience and move forward. My mother lived in a similar tent as in this image when she was first married. She recounted a story of when she moved into the log cabin my father built just as the first snow was falling. <p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">2021 may be better, or it could be more of the same. What will help you through it is to be mindful of how you adapt to whatever may come up. Humans are survivors. And no matter what you go through, find gratitude for something in your life even if you don't want to in that moment. And trust me, life is mysterious and wonderful. You are here for a purpose. Your life will be meaningful, happy even. Be of service to others. In DENE law we are each given a life at the time our birth. It is a sacred gift that is given to our parents and grandparents. The happiness you give to others far outweighs any negativity of this pandemic. We cannot only survive we can absolutely survive and thrive. Challenging times such as the pandemic can teach us so much about ourselves. It can reveal strengths we didn't know we had.When We emerge from it, we will be stronger, inoculated not only against a virus but all kinds of other challenges too.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;">Finally, my last thoughts on this. I mistakenly said there were are heros to save the day, but it goes </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilyMYQiPzLDHiQXjhLI3rK0ogOjFZW36Dg7QxgHG5Z461fd2ZNx-ge_iG_EfP6_D7sNEOBoUdPPAcEFm9RYB_OBXRiZhPO14VOFMugGDuEU-AaBhx7iGf3p-Fc9sxZsP51aQ5LHPBck8fn/s1136/nurse+Presley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="852" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilyMYQiPzLDHiQXjhLI3rK0ogOjFZW36Dg7QxgHG5Z461fd2ZNx-ge_iG_EfP6_D7sNEOBoUdPPAcEFm9RYB_OBXRiZhPO14VOFMugGDuEU-AaBhx7iGf3p-Fc9sxZsP51aQ5LHPBck8fn/w240-h308/nurse+Presley.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><br />without saying it is important to acknowledge the men and women working in the health profession, nurses doctors, frontline workers. People who in spite of the danger go to work every day so that we can be safe they are the heroes in this pandemic. Like my lovely niece pediatric nurse, Presley. </p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">I leave you with these words: <b>strength</b>, <b>happiness</b>, <b>gratitude,</b> <b>being</b> <b>blessed</b>, and <b>adaptability. </b> Let these be your words for 2021. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-large;">Merry Christmas! :) </span></p><p><br /></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-86047252934803113842020-11-30T15:54:00.011-05:002021-07-28T10:13:54.186-04:00RACE SHIFTING, IDENTIFYING AND CLAIMING TO BE INDIGENOUS FOR PERSONAL GAIN<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p>Distinctive Dene jacket made by my mom, Therese Deranger </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Words and contexts matter. The
subject of this blog may give rise to an emotional reaction. I write it from an
Indigenous world view.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Why do some non-Indigenous people
seek to identify themselves as Indigenous? I understand that sometimes it could
be as simple as an individual trying to fill a void within themselves and
seeking acceptance, belonging, and kinship. This is a basic human desire.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Throughout history leading to today,
some non-Indigenous people have self-identified as Indigenous. This is not a new phenomenon. I do not take
issue with that concept. However, I do take issue with someone who uses a recently
assumed identity to access a system designed to help marginalized people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A famous historical example is Archibald
(Archie) <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/belaney_archibald_stansfeld_16E.html">Bellaney, better known as Gray Owl</a>, and in more contemporary times, the
controversy over <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/my-name-is-joseph-boyden/" target="_blank">author Joseph Boyden</a>’s ever-changing claim as Indigenous was a
heated topic in 2016.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The issue of identity begins as a
personal matter. It satisfies a real need. In the era of Black Lives Matter, Indigenous
peoples around the globe are standing up for their rights, on constitutional matters,
and have begun the process of squaring colonial policies, like residential
schools, and the 60s scoop with contemporary awareness based on human rights by
reframing our perspective through the lens of colonialism. To put it bluntly, the attempted cultural genocide
of Indigenous peoples in Canada is reprehensible and efforts to correct the
damage is necessary.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">Identifying as an Indigenous
person does not automatically mean you’re entitled to rights as an Indigenous
person. Finding an Indigenous ancestor in your family tree can give a person
the right to claim some form of Indigenous identity. Think of Senator Elizabeth Warren. DNA analysis indicates that she apparently had
a full-blooded Indian ancestor between 6 to 10 generations ago. This would mean that one of between 64 and
1024 of her ancestors was Indigenous. It
is a source of some personal pride for her. But is it really meaningful?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">Nevertheless the issue of identity
ceases to be purely personal when something tangible is at stake, like
Aboriginal or treaty rights or the right to claim an award intended for people
who are have been colonized. If you
self-identify as an Indigenous person in order to have a legal right or to
claim some award for Indigenous people, you must also be able self-identify as
a member of a particular Indigenous community. And that community must also
recognize you as its member.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">Can we agree that Indigenous people
are marginalized? Some are discriminated against solely based on their physical
appearance. Government programs were designed to demean and break their spirit.
Today programs and scholarships meant
for Indigenous peoples are created to help level the playing field for the
wrong that was perpetrated on them. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">To that end, I have begun a
conversation on how colonization continues to impact Indigenous people. I recently produced a podcast on decolonizing
addictions, and in particular decolonizing substance use in a conversation
about the harmful effects of stigma and why Indigenous peoples are
overrepresented in addiction. Decolonizing substance use is about creating a
collective understanding about where an addiction comes from, making clear
linkages between colonialism, trauma, substance use and then addiction. It
is just one issue where many Indigenous people must overcome. There are other areas where Indigenous people
are overrepresented, like the penal system and the foster care system and these
have an enormous negative impact on the lives of Indigenous peoples. The trauma resulting from these experiences
is intergenerational, and this compounds the problem and complicates finding a
way out of the trauma/addiction vortex. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Perhaps the criteria for self-identifying
as Indigenous ought to be more difficult. But in an ideal world where
people behaved with honour, we wouldn't have to worry about people applying in
categories created for Indigenous people by those who don’t qualify. It just
wouldn't happen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">If you are self-identifying as
Indigenous, I will leave it to you and your conscience to reflect carefully on
your reasons for applying under an Indigenous category. In what way have you
been marginalized? The most challenging obstacle being Indigenous
is our physical appearance. We cannot change the colour of our skin. If you
look Caucasian, you have no idea what it feels like to be followed in the store
watched in case you steal. You have no idea what it feels like to be sick, and
instead of getting medical help, witnesses jump to the typecast that you must
be drunk, Indigenous people have died because of this stereotype. If you
haven't experienced an Indigenous life, can we agree you are privileged? And
furthermore, to extend your privilege to the point where you think it is okay
to accept a scholarship over a needy Indigenous person and not only show little
compassion, it shows little comprehension on why Indigenous categories exist. Shame
on you! The bottom line is taking what is not yours is not the Indigenous way. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">As I mentioned earlier you may
have found Indigenous ancestors in your genealogy, however applying for an
award in an Indigenous category clearly suggest you do not understand the difficulty
and struggles of Indigenous people have for hundreds of years since
colonization. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">In my view there are people who
are opportunists and see this as an opportunity for themselves, to gain the
system. And then there are people who genuinely admire Indigenous people and
see their self-identifying as Indigenous as a way to elevate and give back to Indigenous
peoples in some manner. Which one are you?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">In the era of <a href="http://www.trc.ca/assets/pdf/Honouring_the_Truth_Reconciling_for_the_Future_July_23_2015.pdf" target="_blank">reconciliation</a>, it
is important first to be educated, secondly to reconcile the disparity between Indigenous
and non-Indigenous and not take advantage of the opportunities intended for Indigenous
peoples. The lines of “Indigenous” and “non-Indigenous”
are being blurred more and more all the time.
It can’t be just about your bloodline.
It must also be about your lived experience. To paraphrase President John F. Kennedy, ask
not what identifying as Indigenous can do for you, instead ask how identifying
as Indigenous can improve life for your Indigenous community and Indigenous
communities on the whole. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">Being Indigenous for me is to function
on a foundation of respect, honour, and reciprocity in a natural law context as
my ancestors have done for millennia. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">I am Dene. I live in unceded Algonquin territory This is my mom beading. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/opinion-too-easy-claim-indigeneity-1.6114558">An article that says it all </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<!--EndFragment--><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzhcdBvurN_rtzxl7PmYKYBA3AxcGc_vNjluT6PD4gsNpgyTHMk35SAZLNzWAWfK0ARp6oIl9zkoFSY0fFzN2aov845cAeI1OUbukpntcv6OUF7gC_6MLZPfx7lPvxbQQGxfSdu5IQjVF/s1907/mama.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1315" data-original-width="1907" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzhcdBvurN_rtzxl7PmYKYBA3AxcGc_vNjluT6PD4gsNpgyTHMk35SAZLNzWAWfK0ARp6oIl9zkoFSY0fFzN2aov845cAeI1OUbukpntcv6OUF7gC_6MLZPfx7lPvxbQQGxfSdu5IQjVF/s320/mama.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br />ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-90297226888450911862020-11-26T12:09:00.005-05:002020-11-26T12:09:44.671-05:00MY ASSISTANT, AN OLD FRIEND <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>THE ASSISTANT, MY </b></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><b>OLD</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b> FRIEND </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2821T1bP72gpBnUm88PhmWeRFqg-SqCbpDBQ7QAtspS3sh1GI2ZtMsbeZaM50jE8l1xvej7xvYfxT_mgWizRSdOlVIjWdb0V9rUGas_KiuJp9laKhoCKn8JhVBmEnJPDhj6jDkke2gAvu/s640/ASSSITANT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2821T1bP72gpBnUm88PhmWeRFqg-SqCbpDBQ7QAtspS3sh1GI2ZtMsbeZaM50jE8l1xvej7xvYfxT_mgWizRSdOlVIjWdb0V9rUGas_KiuJp9laKhoCKn8JhVBmEnJPDhj6jDkke2gAvu/s320/ASSSITANT.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A little over two years ago, in
2018, I suffered a stroke. I was at Elizabeth Bruyère Rehabilitation Hospital
in Ottawa for a few months for rehabilitation. I acknowledge the amazing team
of doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists who contributed to my quick
recovery.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A few weeks into my recovery, a
nurse came to my room with the wheelchair. I was really excited to be able to
roam around the stroke unit independently.
One day, she came to my room and said, “I have good news and bad news,
which do you want first?” </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Being the eternal optimist, I
said “the good news, please.” She started: “the physiotherapist says I need to
return your wheelchair.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“What!” I said, “no, I want to
keep it.” And she added “there are
others who need it more, and the good news is you don't need it anymore.” </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I reluctantly said goodbye to my
wheelchair, at the same time I was pleased to be moving on in my rehab, I went
from my wheelchair, to a walker, and then finally to walking with a cane. It
took a number of weeks before I was walking without any aids. And it felt great when I could!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, during the winter
of 2019 I twisted my knee slipping on ice and pulled my meniscus. I had to use
a walker again. It was a setback for sure because a ligament takes quite a
while to heal. It was then I realized I needed to make friends with my
walker. I found this minor change in my
mindset really helpful. I changed my
attitude to it and begun calling it my “assistant.” After all an assistant is
there to help, right? This one helped me
feel secure. It carried my purse, and with
the aid of a handicapped pass it allowed me premium parking spaces at
stores. Eventually I was able to not
rely on it, first in my home, and slowly when I was out in public. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Not only is winter coming, and not
to get all Game of Thrones on you with a global pandemic continuing, we could
be heading for some uncertain dark months ahead with rising caseloads and increasing
restrictions on our lifestyle. In the
coming months we may well experience significant doses of sadness, anxiety, and
depression.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Well I am thinking ahead, and I
will for safety reasons be turning to my old friend when I go out again, as my
safety net. What will you adapt as your safety net?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My journey since 2018 has been to
shift my perspective and to see things from a more positive viewpoint. I
believe it has helped me recover faster, and I might add there is certainly no
shame in accepting help. I view my “assistant” as a privilege.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Science shows us that
establishing and maintaining routines can be a form of antidepressant, and
perhaps introducing to your routine meditation, if you haven't already, it will
help you navigate through the coming months.
As a long time meditator, I can attest to these benefits of improved
mental health, more energy, better sleep and steady mood. Not to mention happiness. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>2020 has been like a wet blanket.
I will emphasize, your perspective makes all the difference in your world on
how you will navigate the upcoming months. Stay safe be well. And don’t be afraid to call on your
assistants! Whatever – or whoever - they
may be…</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p> ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-80605571931472907672020-11-11T16:32:00.001-05:002020-11-11T16:32:29.496-05:0028 years Hubby's version <p><a href="https://teslaguy.blogspot.com/2020/11/twenty-eight-years-on.html">https://teslaguy.blogspot.com/2020/11/twenty-eight-years-on.html</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-gGqR0OveEw9xDqJfoGgJ2CLQ4eWWJWBqrgbFQoqxWkTG1V_8DfmwBcY72rRXws5noQugWCubjgKqXD091NMrYLYcMOxHfSi8Qlkv6FO0Oz8sKKS4YdD03oKj5UGcX0ckeLWr28cz43P/s2048/IMG_6386-EFFECTS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-gGqR0OveEw9xDqJfoGgJ2CLQ4eWWJWBqrgbFQoqxWkTG1V_8DfmwBcY72rRXws5noQugWCubjgKqXD091NMrYLYcMOxHfSi8Qlkv6FO0Oz8sKKS4YdD03oKj5UGcX0ckeLWr28cz43P/s320/IMG_6386-EFFECTS.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-13916721942718986942020-11-09T10:57:00.002-05:002020-11-09T11:11:45.020-05:00ACTUALLY, YOU CAN HELP WHO YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78zf2Xm2zv9HZVGtyAhxk-xznGEehZjf4SV4KY9fGZv3QD9GXJyCx3VDoX_TRpIYdj39h2EB4WGCnpNjaxoE0D_teYjud-BSWlR4VyXxLUeDr3vjs83nOtozOEuy-KZRXmt08XcIxaTYr/s2048/40C0975D-AD4F-4436-BCFC-45427A630864.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78zf2Xm2zv9HZVGtyAhxk-xznGEehZjf4SV4KY9fGZv3QD9GXJyCx3VDoX_TRpIYdj39h2EB4WGCnpNjaxoE0D_teYjud-BSWlR4VyXxLUeDr3vjs83nOtozOEuy-KZRXmt08XcIxaTYr/s320/40C0975D-AD4F-4436-BCFC-45427A630864.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>2010<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNsA46n_jNw6KkiAnN6PeOWyQC3o9B8_zfztj1OHzXdeqnLyzfhy1oZkaa5At7S1iwDboINnqFPMuzush9v_gkBrVXHZBeGL8_BJnfx-rPntPFFQpRsQPMBFvLiSujQJ-isxPOFU2ZZPKr/s640/3ED84F54-AFC7-4276-8B4A-7B0423509B78_1_105_c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="516" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNsA46n_jNw6KkiAnN6PeOWyQC3o9B8_zfztj1OHzXdeqnLyzfhy1oZkaa5At7S1iwDboINnqFPMuzush9v_gkBrVXHZBeGL8_BJnfx-rPntPFFQpRsQPMBFvLiSujQJ-isxPOFU2ZZPKr/s320/3ED84F54-AFC7-4276-8B4A-7B0423509B78_1_105_c.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">28 years ago I met a man I had a crush on in person at a law conference in Ottawa.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">My crush on him started a couple years prior to us actually meeting each other. I read a couple of speeches he wrote for the then Attorney General of Ontario, Roy McMurtry. in addition, I also read a number of legal opinions he had written on treaty and aboriginal rights. To clarify, I had a crush on his brain, his intellect. Who is this man? He made complex legal arguments understandable. This said to me that he knew his area of specialty, and he also had a clear and uncluttered mind. As it turned out we knew a number of people in common. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">That lucky day in Ottawa, we spent the whole afternoon getting to know each other after his presentation. Later that evening we had dinner at Sitar, an Indian restaurant with lawyers we both knew, my current boss and a lawyer I worked with before I moved to Ottawa. By the end of the dinner I knew this was the man I wanted to marry. He was intellectually stimulating and we also had chemistry. And although he said he would call he didn't. And we didn't see each other until that fall at a business meeting in Toronto we had. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">To be sure, our 28 years of marriage had its challenges, but nothing we couldn't overcome. Not long after our marriage Alan drafted the beginnings of a novel. It described eerily perfectly the view of our future house from the river shore, before we even thought of selling my condominium in Ottawa and moving to the country. Recently, after minor changes to his manuscript, I convinced him to go back and complete his novel. I am so excited to see it finally completed and in print. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The reason I believe we can choose the person we fall in love with is because I had a clear vision of who I wanted to spend my life with, someone who is not run by his ego or his profession. Who is intelligent, authentic and has integrity. Alan is all of this and more. In fact, while we were dating I said something to the effect that he was a nice man. He didn't want to be known as "nice." I think he wanted to be described as a wild man! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I am grateful to have met and married such a beautiful wild man who knows me like no one else in the world. He is my best friend. Happy anniversary darling. I am so blessed you said yes when I proposed, and when you were ready I said yes when you proposed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">November 11,1992</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-30615484559303035182020-11-03T10:43:00.006-05:002020-11-03T13:21:32.269-05:00Indigenous Heritage Month 2020<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7eqsFKt92ZhOkl5MOes_iFY596v98isa0rs3qz-WfsylH-xYqvIrQTjrIjVMZCKG_-oz_kWH9hXchT746egHdXDWmw-D8XuZXlEx3PEOON3vnIqUBKTwN-SJDnXPJOR8OnvN7lr8FC7x/s623/Baba+and+Freddy+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="416" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7eqsFKt92ZhOkl5MOes_iFY596v98isa0rs3qz-WfsylH-xYqvIrQTjrIjVMZCKG_-oz_kWH9hXchT746egHdXDWmw-D8XuZXlEx3PEOON3vnIqUBKTwN-SJDnXPJOR8OnvN7lr8FC7x/s320/Baba+and+Freddy+.jpg" /></a></div><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">November is Indigenous heritage month it is an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge important cultural contributions made by Indigenous peoples to the world. The picture above is of my dad, who was a traditional trapper, and an older brother. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>Water needs flow to stay fresh, humans need to adapt to challenges to create a life that is <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>meaningful and purposeful. Indigenous peoples are survivors, they have adapted, and continue to teach us by their example. </span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In the summer 2020 during a global pandemic four professional Indigenous women came up with a plan and met to discuss a vision I am one of them. What followed was an electric conversation, filled with inspiration and insight. We had noble aspirations to combat addictions in Indigenous communities across Canada. Our idea is to develop curriculum based on intergenerational trauma as a source of addictions. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> I admit the subject of addictions is broad and complex and cannot simply be reduced to effects of trauma. This point cannot be ignored or understated. However, coupled with looking at the effects of the impact of colonization on Indigenous Peoples is a pathway to uncovered a possible link of intergenerational trauma and addictions. There is Overwhelming trauma in our history. </p><p style="text-align: left;">It goes without saying that the impact of the global pandemic created a perfect storm for addictions to take hold in Indigenous communities, due to months long lockdown, loss of income and security. People suffered and continue to suffer and is placing a burden on their mental health. These stresses are exactly what drives people to turn to substance abuse.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Since the onset of the pandemic suicides, and abuse incidents have increased in communities. communities are under insurmountable grief. The four women decided to do something to mitigate the damages done by the pandemic and step into an huge undertaking. The fruits of their conversation resulted in the creation of 7th<a href="https://seventhgift.ca/about/"> Generation Indigenous foundation and training</a>, also known as GIFT. it is no mistake that the foundation acronym is GIFT it was by design. the foundation is a gift to the communities. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> Careful consideration was given to people who were invited to sit on the foundation. An ideal director would have the following qualities, leadership and knowledge in the area of addictions, integrity, a strong desire and commitment to be part of the solution. In turn, the foundation aligns with their inner purpose for meaningful service to their communities. Essentially to be involved with a movement greater than themselves, a noble cause. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> The foundation's work will transform individual lives and communities by creating healthy relationships. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> We are extremely pleased that we have attracted Scholarly and established Indigenous people to sit on the foundation. Day one they showed up engaged and ready for the challenge ahead. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> Through the efforts of the foundation we are creating a vision of healthy communities. We are creating a new reality, Our plan includes uplifting all Indigenous peoples to be the very best version of themselves. </p><p style="text-align: left;">November is Indigenous heritage month I salute all Indigenous peoples across turtle Island who show up every day for their communities, giving their time, energy, and dedication for a healthier year-round environment for all Indigenous communities. A special acknowledgment for the women who shared a vision with me and have joined me on this journey side-by-side on the foundation. Our work is a reflection of what is in our spirit. </p><p style="text-align: left;">In just a couple short months we were able to act on this vision from spirit of our ancestors. Their strength has led us to include Harm reduction as a model in reducing substance abuse. This is not just a theoretical idea. Countries such as Denmark, Germany, and even Canada have establish regulated medically supervised, safe injection sites. These facilities operate by avoiding stigma and shame on those who use the facilities. When a safe humane program is available it increases the probability of them seeking treatment to combat addictions on their own. It has demonstrated this as a successful approach, perhaps most significantly they build their confidence and ability for them to tap into their inner source for healing. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> A question I will leave you with, what would a future look like for Indigenous Peoples if there were professionals or organizations that not only provided a safe environment but also focussed on offering resources on mental and physical health? This foundation is a start towards fulfilling that vision. If anything you read here aligns with your spirit, and you would like to help with a donation, all gifts will receive a tax receipt. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-6206731310316913872020-10-12T09:31:00.002-04:002020-10-12T09:35:48.093-04:00Cultural Genocide is Trauma<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJF_k6mF7XDP8zajkDnTkV3XS2sfmqxLKwG4efYvP7CUf10xtScuHsFpdwpC8m3TpE_kgu3osTAJLXpXMPyFkNeh9ZznIjDqID9QwH63FMhpaKI-Zde7ZSQpnoSUQxQvbGPUvUZDqeeO6h/s2048/winter2+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJF_k6mF7XDP8zajkDnTkV3XS2sfmqxLKwG4efYvP7CUf10xtScuHsFpdwpC8m3TpE_kgu3osTAJLXpXMPyFkNeh9ZznIjDqID9QwH63FMhpaKI-Zde7ZSQpnoSUQxQvbGPUvUZDqeeO6h/w400-h320/winter2+.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">During the course of the last seven months my mind has been preoccupied with the notion of trauma. to understand better as to how trauma has affected me personally I studied trauma, and decided to look to my own. I didn't have to go too far back. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When I was a young girl, 10 years old I was living with an older brother and his wife. One evening hearing a commotion outside my door I opened the bedroom door to witness them arguing. Very quickly the argument escalated to a physical confrontation. Quickly I shut the door and covered my ears to block what was going on as hard as I tried I could not get the image out of my mind. This incident had a huge impact on me, I became fearful of intoxicated people, and anyone who would raise their voice and look like they were going to lose their cool. To this day I avoid confrontation of any sort. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Recounting the story has a visceral effect on my body, heart pounding, hands sweaty. as I reflected more, I clearly saw not only my own trauma but trauma in others. My first step to healing was to recognize the trauma within me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Deep connection, support, and social cohesion, are necessary requirements of healing our own trauma. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">we must remember our songs, dances, and stories. The photograph above is of my niece who is passionate about connecting to her indigenous culture. Our journey to healing will take many avenues. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-69820106117294000372020-08-20T17:30:00.013-04:002020-08-21T14:07:36.126-04:00The Summer Of Transformation<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHnjZaK0vG8G4ONQqP4qwW4Tkk3gBi8gJ6QfkixN8OOso3K1ZuwMOAk5oxitcI7XBM5EYl2aXq1X1JzDXkKxYc_DsE7bHIaqHgYKM1JmR32zAn1AbnjMu82Eo0-b5LU4mDFeraSmNP4lg/s960/Shayla.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHnjZaK0vG8G4ONQqP4qwW4Tkk3gBi8gJ6QfkixN8OOso3K1ZuwMOAk5oxitcI7XBM5EYl2aXq1X1JzDXkKxYc_DsE7bHIaqHgYKM1JmR32zAn1AbnjMu82Eo0-b5LU4mDFeraSmNP4lg/w240-h320/Shayla.jpg" title="Cultural pride" width="240" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I DECLARE I AM A CAUSE FOR COMPASSIONATE INQUIRY INTO TRAUMA as the source for addictions in FIRST NATION COMMUNITIES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Inasmuch as the world stopped for many in early March 2020, it did not stop for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Since the beginning of March I have had two tragic and heartbreaking losses, first, my <a href="http://thedestinywithin.blogspot.com/2020/04/patrick-david-deranger-1951-2020-dene.html">brother, Pat</a>, and then my <a href="http://thedestinywithin.blogspot.com/2020/06/final-goodbye.html">oldest sister, Liz</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I embraced my vulnerability and accepted it as part of my journey that I needed to walk. And I embarked on my next challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A leader in the Dene community inspired me to take a 12 week leadership course, <a href="https://unstoppableconversations.com/courses/being-a-leader/"><i>Being A Leader</i> facilitated by Unstoppable Conversations.</a> T<a href="https://cklbradio.com/2020/03/20/dene-national-chief-advises-his-people-he-is-gone-to-live-on-the-land-and-advises-the-dene-nation-to-do-the-same/">his was his project when he took the course. <o:p></o:p></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I just completed the last session this week. And of course, this would have little meaning if I also didn't experience a transformation. In the last week of the course I took responsibility for an action to occur that would make a profound difference for the organization I lead. It was not easy, as it never is when making difficult decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The fallout from these actions is ongoing as I disrupted business as usual. And I suspect it will continue. As a leader, I am confident that actions that were taken will stand the organization in good stead for years to come. Taking being a leader course left me with a greater appreciation for my word and how I hold others to their word. That was a game changer for me. And upgraded the caliber of being a leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Disruption is an opportunity to start a new.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Among the many lessons the course revealed, an important and vital lesson I learned is that to have authenticity I must first look at myself and where I lacked authenticity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This inquiry led me to discover that I often lack authenticity by my being extremely nice. The basis of this behavior is rooted in childhood trauma and I decided early on I wanted to be liked and accepted, and I didn’t ever want to hurt people’s feelings. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The downside to this behaviour is I would hold back from truthfully saying what needed to be said. Numerous times the facilitator said to me Angelina, you are being too nice! Obviously, the only person I was fooling is myself. Being too nice is ineffective and stops your growth. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">An aspect of being a leader is to know what you stand for and, to make a declaration on what that is. This is just the first step. Your actions moving forward will speak to what you have declared.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Again, I cannot emphasize more strongly, that when speaking your truth, it is important that you speak from a place of authenticity because, no matter what words you use, if you lack authenticity everything you do will fall like a house of cards. And that does not serve anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> moreover, It is not about trying to be a leader; it is about taking on leadership like you would take on being yourself, as mom, or dad, It is not separate from who you are being. And through my participation in the course I can show up <u>being</u> a leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The insight that I received over the 12 weeks would not have been possible had I not been inspired by Norman Yakeleya, Dene National Chief, who took the course before me. Thank you, Norman. You will never realize how many people are impacted by being the leader you are. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the last Zoom session in the course, it surprised me when everyone was acknowledging the facilitators for their insight in helping the course be as successful as it was. I got emotional. I really took on that they were showing up and creating space to make a difference for the 60 people worldwide who participated. As stated earlier the impact those beyond the 60 people to all the people they Inspired. In turn each of those people through their project are impacting many more people. As people revealed their transformation one by one. I eyewitnessed a confidence and distinct uncovering of their true authentic selves. These 60 people, which I am one, awakened their purpose and created an action plan to make it happen on a humanitarian level. bravo!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As part of the course, each participant choose to undertake a project to demonstrate their new understanding of leadership. These projects revealed will make the world a better place. Examples are;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://amaroksociety.org/wordpress/index-html/">Teaching illiterate mothers in Bangladesh Englis</a>h, so they can create a possibility of a better life for their children. To empower women is to empower the entire community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://farmradio.org/uganda/">Farm radio Internationally</a>, 40 African farming communities in rural Africa, empowering them to help themselves, by:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">·<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Securing increased funding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">·<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Impact on ownership and forming responsible partnerships in rural Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Investigating the correlation of toxicity from the oilsands upstream from Fort Chipewyan Alberta on health and the high rates of rare bile cancers among members and offering them a possibility for optimum health. (My project, but did not get off the ground due to the person I partnered with did not provide me with the studies on toxicity.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Changing a teaching paradigm for First Nations communities of how we address addictions by, incorporating compassionate inquiry and looking at trauma as the cause of addictions moving away from seeing addictions as a disease. (The project I took on halfway through the course I changed the focus of my project, identified Dr. Gabor Maté as my partner. We will start the project in September, after he completes his latest book.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">5.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Humanizing the delivery of services to Canada. Creating a new standard that reduces bureaucracy in favor of humanizing government delivery of services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">6.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> A father's project to create a path forward for independence for his son, resulted in creating a more desirable relationship among his entire family, based on communication. Being present with each other, listening, and being heard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">7.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">People who resisted speaking up, stepped up and spoke revealing vulnerabilities and their authenticity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">8.<span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A project to provide care for the elderly project designed to provide a safer institution for elders what the policy is based on kindness and compassion for the elderly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, the course delivered and surpassed on its promise to give us the tools to allow participants to discover for themselves, and allow for true transformation to occur.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We leave the course literally as transformed people, truly leaders, and folks I am proud to call friends to walk with on my journey. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMAGDzDNgjG7EshhwY9s730cW2oI3ycYb1wDBGrVS9ZJAnIEyLTStXnfiYtXaW79CUJcKDb5d9eQzH_uhyEznkNL_kkALfBk-sLnJyUrtwSAfBtokW0WHY3pY6pv_FpklUhmLSt1X-gcm/s640/IMG_2238.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMAGDzDNgjG7EshhwY9s730cW2oI3ycYb1wDBGrVS9ZJAnIEyLTStXnfiYtXaW79CUJcKDb5d9eQzH_uhyEznkNL_kkALfBk-sLnJyUrtwSAfBtokW0WHY3pY6pv_FpklUhmLSt1X-gcm/s0/IMG_2238.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2380910008152320507.post-78042490323223746412020-08-02T17:49:00.018-04:002020-08-09T06:50:43.927-04:00PICTURE THIS! (BECAUSE I CAN'T)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2UCTlSlvPIlhLm9dTL3T4YaVwBw4RjXaMZtmtddQemUR7E8zmDBGNYALEGwG0E7MBj6ZnhuTKwiHgHEKDxzZcHR58ukx4pl9n8KPAZF1YnryeivLDPx7Bs8HVWgXzu_UOpADIe__nZZU/s1280/no+image+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2UCTlSlvPIlhLm9dTL3T4YaVwBw4RjXaMZtmtddQemUR7E8zmDBGNYALEGwG0E7MBj6ZnhuTKwiHgHEKDxzZcHR58ukx4pl9n8KPAZF1YnryeivLDPx7Bs8HVWgXzu_UOpADIe__nZZU/s640/no+image+.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: vollkorn, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">"</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: vollkorn, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;">I tasted it in reality, and that was all I got. A one time deal. I can’t taste it again in my imagination." -Brian Leibold</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I discovered that I have<span style="background: white; color: #404040;"> </span></span><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">aphantasia. Discovered in 1880, and coined it in 2015 by cognitive and behavioral neurology scientists, Adam Zeman in the UK. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I found out I had it quite accidentally, during a conversation.</span><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: helvetica;">What this means for me, is that I don't see images in my head. Crazy. It means that I have a condition that only 1 to 3 per cent of the world's population has. It never occurred to me even to investigate this phenomenon. I never knew that other people have a superpower of generating pictures just using their mind! Who would have thought?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Prior to a few days ago, I never gave it a second thought. Incidentally during a conversation with my daughter, <span style="background: white; color: #404040;">I discovered I could not visualize what she was saying. Whenever I shut my eyes all I get is black with a bright/ light spot - I can't picture anything in my head at all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">There was an aha! moment for me, and I suddenly understood why I am geographically challenged. I cannot envision lakes, rivers on a map. And further it now made perfect sense that when I was talking to designers who were designing either my layout of the kitchen, bathroom, or landscaping I could not envision what they were creating until it was completed. <br /><br />Until today I always thought that when people said they saw images it was more like a metaphor ... or like remembering. It is interesting to find out because I never knew what it meant to imagine something visually. I always thought that it was an intellectual process and not a situation of conjuring up a visual image with the mind. This knowledge does not change anything, although it does help me understand to some extent how my brain works.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">For me, I connect through my feelings. My memory works by connecting events that have taken place directly to how I felt about it. When I tried to remember somebody, I don't get an image of them in my head; instead I get a feeling of them. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and author, wrote a book titled <i>The Man Who <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/0684853949/ref=asc_df_0684853949/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292953695483&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=561299238868191147&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1002376&hvtargid=pla-499564231597&psc=1">The Man who mistook his wife for a hat.</a> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">It is difficult to explain.</span><span face="" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span face="" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> I think it is like all the data is stored in my brain like on a hard drive and can be reassembled when needed. But it is not stored as a picture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">That is pretty freaky because if – like most people - you can see in pictures it must be hard to believe that others can’t do that because it seems so natural to you. Another insight into that amazing organ, the human brain!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div>ToBlog todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.com0