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[tobiaskjorling]

PIE FACE SHOWDOWN - FÖRLORAREN BADAR I ISKALLT VATTEN

[defiantly-geeky]

July blog a day (3 & 4)

3. GPOYW

I missed it. I don’t get the whole thing of always needing to post one’s own picture all the time. I’m not judging anyone who does, because, hey, we’re all different and there’s nothing wrong with it. I just...don’t get it. But that’s okay, there are many things I don’t get. lol

4. Patriotism means.....

from this article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-real-patriotism-loving-your-country-flaws-and-all-and-wanting-it/

“...patriotism is about loving your country and tends to be iterative over time; nationalism is about expressing the superiority of your country over another’s, a snapshot that ossifies national identity into something absolute.

Instead, we ought think of patriotism as duty to community and to country, as one of the most potent forces driving justice and progress in an increasingly divisive time and as a tool for empowering immigrants, new residents and refugees alike by generating a more inclusive definition of citizenship.

To love your country is to want it to be better. To truly love a country is to say that we as educated citizens cannot and will not accept an erasure of the past nor an apathy of the present.

...On Feb. 15, 1965, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson inaugurated the new national flag of Canada, an act of political courage that ended years of debate about replacing the Red Ensign, which featured the Union Jack.

He concluded his speech at Parliament Hill, with the following:“Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.”

Mr. Pearson keenly understood that real patriotism is about saying that yes, we love our countries, but that we love them flaws and all, and that we are committed to improving them, even if it means tackling head-on past systems of power. This makes recognizing Canada’s colonial history and the devastation wrought on the Indigenous peoples of this land a prerequisite of being a patriotic Canadian, rather than something oppositional, as it is sometimes cast. Being a patriot in our context also means understanding deeply that we have always been a nation of others, of hyphenated-Canadians who each have their own painful histories. It is what we do with those histories therefore that renders pluralism and patriotism either mutually exclusive or complementary.”

and this (sorry, I had to)

[defiantly-geeky]

July blog a day (1 & 2)

Continuing my doubles

1. Curses

Foiled again! There are curses as in curse words; as in people put bad juju onto you. I do a lot of the first, but none of the second.

2. 6 months into 2019: half year check in

Ummm. School’s out for summer....I’m still standing. I’m still working on being the best and most loving person I can be...sometimes feel like I’m not suceeding. Still have C in my life. I’m still in his. ha. I’m very slowly teaching myself to do the things I need to do on a regular basis. Still haven’t cleaned my room (my summer project, it’s absolutely vile...but I also understand the mess is what my head is like and my heart, a bit? I know what I mean...)

[teramaners]

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[larshultman]

#julbad (på/i Cha-am sea beach)

[foreheadtw]

Sven x Julbad 2014

[foreheadtw]

Sven x Julbad 2014