Yes, some things never change 🙂 even COVID-19 did not change this…
Days turn into weeks and weeks into months
COVID-19 pandemic across the globe has been going on for more than 4 months now…at first, it was exotic, distant, ‘Asian’…then it hit European countries, getting more ‘real’…once it was happening in Italy, France, Spain…it was ‘real’, and then it came on North American soil…hitting New York City really bad. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, new realities of staying mostly home, and social distancing are impacting everyone…everyone!
2020 what a year it’s going to be to remember…what memories it’s going to bring about…is it going to be a year that everybody will want to forget quickly, or the world will change forever? Only time will tell if we’re here to live with social distancing for a long long time … it would be a strange world without shaking hands, high fives and hugs.
Without office towers downtown, a busy transit system, without cheap airline tickets (less travelling)…without shared group experiences (Disney/Cruise industry/sports/concerts/arts…)…for young people it would be easier, they would grow up in a brave new world, for the ones who remember the old good times :)…well, the old good times were here just yesterday…better yesterday, right?
“And in the end, …
it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years”
Abraham Lincoln
“A calm and modest life…
… brings more happiness than successful pursuit combined with constant restlessness.”
Einstein
Another milestone for Toronto
More than half of respondents to the 2016 census in the City of Toronto — 51.5 per cent — said they’re from visible minority communities, a milestone that was narrowly missed when 49 per cent identified that way in 2011. [October 25, 2017 The Star]
SheEO…
Steve Cutts + John Tottenham
will turn you speechless and dazed… and confused…but you’ll see things more clearly 🙂
El Jones: A poem on Neurodiversity
Hi, my name is “normal.”
I’m just here to invite you
To measure yourself against some standards
That I made for just a few
I just don’t like variety
I thrive on people all alike
So I’d like to put you in a box
And tell you what’s the right you
And I’ve brought along some labels
That I’d like to stick like glue
And maybe you’ve already met this tool I call IQ
Hey, if you don’t fit this test
That I devised
There must be something wrong with you
And this world just has no room for people who are like you
And you know that throughout history
I built institutions just to hide you
And you might know me from the language
That I still use to describe you.
So if you don’t qualify as me
I’m afraid I’ll have to strike through
And I’m just waiting on a cure
And then I might just wipe you out
I’ll size you up and deprive you
Til you take it on inside you
Until you hide who you are
Or at the very least you try to
And when I’m the only one who’s telling stories
Then we’re only seeing life through
The eyes of people without the knowledge
But the power to define you
And with only fictional portrayals
And my labels here to guide you
I’ll silence all your voices
And then say that I can’t find you
I’ll categorize you as the problem
Not the world that’s not designed for you
And there’s a full range of being human
That believing in me denies you
I’m going to bring you stigma,
But you still find your pride
And then I see you up on Youtube
Saying these are lines you drew
And I’m tired of applying you
So now I’m going choose to fight you
You say I’m not a kitten on a poster
Who’s only here to inspire you
And now you’re saying you prefer
A world of many bright hues
And saying actually, human beings
Are so much wider than you
And normal’s just a construct
So I prefer my view
So, normal, the world’s a richer place
When we just say goodbye to you.
– El Jones
Identity is additive, not substitutive – Carlos Ghosn (?)
I like this idea: identity is additive, not substitutive. If a person is born Brazilian and later absorbs the French culture, it contributes something to his/her identity; it does  not make him/her less Brazilian.
[Ghosn’s idea <?> born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, and educated in France, now…]