Ahhhh Thank-you. You are right on . Our school curriculums are lacking. When I was enrolled in the The Education Department program at UBC out of a class of 33 students on three of us ( and the Professor knew we had Slavery in Canada. That is when I realized my writings and stories should address the stories and histories left out of our Canadian discourse.
So many comments, where to start?? I love markets & wish I could have been there for the Annual Gorge Day Market. Hope both you & Irv made some good sales and had a fun day! Love the pic of April with the Proclamation of Emancipation Day! Thanks for the reminder. So much to say on this subject, but I will save it for an afternoon on the beach with a rum, LOL. Love, love, love the story about your cousin, Darrell and how he became a champion golfer! Lastly, I wish I could be in Van for the Black Book Festival. I will be there on Aug. 11th for 3-4 days. Any chance you will still be in town? I could pick up the 2 books & we could do lunch/coffee? I will send you a message. Love you!!
I await our conversations with Rum on the beach. Only 4 months to go. I will just miss you in Vancouver, but I’ll sign E books and you can call April as I will leave them with her. Comments is so appreciate them.
Thanks Sidney. You, like me make it our goal to tell our stories, our families and ancestors stories, with respect, honesty, humour, and joy. Also we should tell the unique stories of those wonderful characters from our neighbourhood, and of the people that we have met. Plus, we are all are people watchers, so it’s fun to look at people and imagine what is going on in their world.
I love the many things you teach us through your newsletters. It's frustrating to realize how few meaningful things we were taught in school.
Ahhhh Thank-you. You are right on . Our school curriculums are lacking. When I was enrolled in the The Education Department program at UBC out of a class of 33 students on three of us ( and the Professor knew we had Slavery in Canada. That is when I realized my writings and stories should address the stories and histories left out of our Canadian discourse.
So many comments, where to start?? I love markets & wish I could have been there for the Annual Gorge Day Market. Hope both you & Irv made some good sales and had a fun day! Love the pic of April with the Proclamation of Emancipation Day! Thanks for the reminder. So much to say on this subject, but I will save it for an afternoon on the beach with a rum, LOL. Love, love, love the story about your cousin, Darrell and how he became a champion golfer! Lastly, I wish I could be in Van for the Black Book Festival. I will be there on Aug. 11th for 3-4 days. Any chance you will still be in town? I could pick up the 2 books & we could do lunch/coffee? I will send you a message. Love you!!
I await our conversations with Rum on the beach. Only 4 months to go. I will just miss you in Vancouver, but I’ll sign E books and you can call April as I will leave them with her. Comments is so appreciate them.
As always I thoroughly enjoyed your newsletter, and I learned a lot! Thank,you for sharing all of these important stories. Good luck with your move!
Thanks Sidney. You, like me make it our goal to tell our stories, our families and ancestors stories, with respect, honesty, humour, and joy. Also we should tell the unique stories of those wonderful characters from our neighbourhood, and of the people that we have met. Plus, we are all are people watchers, so it’s fun to look at people and imagine what is going on in their world.