"Liberty has been won. The battle for Equality is still pending" - Charles Sumner, June 1, 1865 Lost in thought .I would never have thought I would be writing about this but then I never realized just how many "buried" (suppressed) memories I have. For the past year I have sat quietly by while a … Continue reading History Repeating
Tag: disabled children
Family Day and Telethon’s
"I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on a dart board" - Anurag Kashyap Today is Family Day in BC. Yesterday was the 2017 annual Variety Show of Hearts Telethon. What do they have in common? They are both family focused however they are designed to … Continue reading Family Day and Telethon’s
After the Poster Child…
Two things have come together in the past week which has encouraged me to write a bit more. Steven Bertrand, a younger advocate acquaintance of mine in Victoria, send me a note telling me he has been asked to write an operational manual for a service the City of Victoria provides. That speaks well to … Continue reading After the Poster Child…
I’m Just Saying
As many of you know I use Twitter and I tend to be a political junkie. After a career as an information analyst I am also an information junkie however I also insist on verifying my information sources. One of the big issues in this age of information is that there is a lot of … Continue reading I’m Just Saying
The Poster Child Philosophy
I was having my morning coffee and catching my morning news when a War Amps ad came on. The ad shows a cute little girl who, due to a birth defect, was born with only one arm and at about age four is using a prosthetic. This little girl and her mother are talking with … Continue reading The Poster Child Philosophy
A Poster Child's Perspective 