Accessing Inclusion
Next to employment, accessing community is the biggest barrier to inclusion faced by people with disabilities. So you can appreciate how pleased I was to walk another north side neighborhood now completely outfitted with new…
Be the Change
October is Disability Employment Awareness Month (DEAM). The goal is to increase awareness of the need to hire persons with disabilities in Canada. We thought it advantageous to wait until the end of…
Talent in the Garden
I saw a girl dance in Galt Gardens. She moved with such grace, I cried. She was a performer at the Eighth Annual Citizens Walk About, sponsored by the South Region Self-Advocacy Network. …
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…
Mindful Compassion
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…
Inclusion: The Dream
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.…