The Gentle Purveyors of Peace
I confess to being rather melancholy today, sparked, by a jarring article, by Rory Andrews, which had come up on my newsfeed. It was about a small roadside plot of land, that was used between 1906 and 1959 as a burial ground for the bodies of unclaimed patients, and located adjacent to a former Nova Scotia mental institution. Today, it is known as the Field of Peace, where some 60 unmarked graves share a single stone of remembrance, and there should be little doubt that the developmentally delayed are among those numbered. While benches dot the little field, creating...
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Watty Piper took the symbol of a simple train chugging its way up a hill when he gave us The Little Engine That Could. “I think I can, I think I can” tooted Piper’s little train while our childhood hearts believed, I can try, I can try, I can try, which was inevitably Piper’s message. For the developmentally delayed however, additional supports are necessary for some to achieve their goals. And it is within that effort to achieve goals where we find Disability Service Workers facilitating those accomplishments. Seeing to the tasks fulfillment and if necessary be the eye’s that...
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Inclusion: The Dream Why do you ignore me when I am right here, here and now? Am I no good? Have I no gifts? Nothing worthy to offer you? But to sit inside the box. Inside the box you drew. Inside the box you’ve put me in, and placed me there to stay— so I’ve been placed to stay. My gifts you do not need or want, even though I want to share. My offerings they rot away with each passing day. While I sit inside this box. Inside this box you made. Suppress my gifts, expose them not. Never look within—don’t ever look within. Seems you’d rather keep me inside this box, tucked...
Read MorePicking Pearls: Spend a little time
Pearl of the Week:
“I have never had a bad hair day,” she said proudly while tapping her hair with both hands.
She then reported, “I wash my hair at night and I comb it in the morning.”
Finishing her statement, she said, “My hair is always perfect.”
This wonderful pearl was picked this week for its soothing elements of self-care.
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