Wednesday, June 20, 2007

world refugee day.


It's World Refugee Day. Today's challenge: take 10 mins, search "refugees" on cbc.ca, and get informed.

I was perusing through cbc.ca today, and came across this news article: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/19/iraq-orphans.html. I don't really have any words to describe how I feel about that.

Yesterday, one of my colleagues told me about this tv show he watched the other night:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/exwivesclub/index.

How is it possible that both of these things occur in the same world?

I am ashamed to call myself a North American.

Friday, June 15, 2007


Yesterday I went for a run. I've had this mental block for a while now that there's no way my body is capable of running past a certain point. I blew past that (or trudged, depending on your view!) block yesterday, and 11 km later I realized I really have no idea what I'm capable of. I can't imagine what my body is capable of if I actually treated it with respect, and stopped eating junk food and started drinking water and getting 8 hours of sleep a night. Imagine the possibilities..