It Has Been a While Since I’ve Blogged
It’s been over a month since I’ve updated my website. Sometimes I’ve entered a second week since posting something new, but never a full month. It hasn’t been from having a lack of things to say or share, in fact it is probably more the opposite.
I’ve been to a number of communities, have been working on plans for Wind Concerns Ontario going forward and have found myself without the time to actually sit down and write about what’s going on.
Going forward, I’m going to try to write about things that are happening and I’m involved in to share my perspective – at least on that which can be made public.
I do look forward to going back to sharing my thoughts, in part because it is almost therapeutic by the time an entry is completed. When I first launched http://laforet.ca almost three years ago, it was all original content that I wrote on things I was involved in, and thoughts I had on issues. Between the election campaign, when I became more conscious that my words could be used against me, and being extremely busy with Wind Concerns Ontario, it’s something that drifted away.
But, I hope over the coming days, weeks and months to at least begin sharing thoughts, images and ideas that I become exposed to through the lens and perspective I see them.
1 Comment »Merry Christmas!
I wanted to take a moment to wish all of those who celebrate today a very Merry Christmas with your family and friends.
Christmas is a very special time of year for many and sees family and friends gather, share and catch up on the busy lives they’re living. For my family Christmas Eve also marks my parents wedding anniversary, which we celebrate as a family each year. I look forward to our second and bigger Christmas celebration tonight, with my extended family in Guildwood. Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins will be there. It will be the first Christmas with four generations of Laforet’s with the addition of my beautiful four month niece.
Below is a video that shows the power positive, like minded people acting together and the joy they can bring to strangers. This shows a ‘flashmob’ breaking out into “Hallelujah!” before an unsuspecting audience in a food court. It’s been viewed by over twenty six million people in the last six weeks.
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To those who will join today with family and friends and celebrate Christmas, may I wish you a Merry Christmas.
My family Christmas tradition sees three generations of Laforet’s celebrating Christmas in Guildwood – where our Christmas dinner has been celebrated since 1968 and with the addition of spouses, children and family friends spans three generations and includes nearly two dozen people.
For me Christmas is a time to share with family and friends, catch up and reflect on the year that is quickly coming to an end. It’s also a time to make decisions about how you will spend the year to come.
This past year has been a unique and totally unexpected one for me that has seen many challenges and opportunities present themselves. My community involvement and activism have taken an angle I could not have predicted they would even when I decided last fall to actively work with Guildwood residents to oppose Toronto Hydro’s project.
While where it has led has been unexpected, the camaraderie and friendship that exists within Wind Concerns Ontario is second to none that I’ve witnessed elsewhere and I feel blessed to consider so many fine Ontarians standing up for their communities to be my friends.
Christmas 2009 will also mark the one year anniversary of the burning of the Studio Building at the Guild Inn – something that tragically destroyed a heritage building on a site with so much meaning to my community. It is my hope, by Christmas 2010 the old Bickford Inn will begin to look like it’s old maintained self again and we can move past the ‘lost decade’ the City of Toronto brought my community at the Guild Inn.
Next year I am sure will be interesting for it’s own reasons, but I look forward to the challenge and know I am in good company as we soldier on.
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