After a long and brutal winter, I am emerging from hibernation and hitting the gym to lose my winter insulation.
It is of no surprise to anyone that I hit a wall in January and struggled to finish a lot of things before collapsing mid April. I was a freight train barreling down the tracks for a couple of years and that is just not sustainable. I crashed head on into exhaustion.
But I am perpetually restless, even if I can barely get out of bed. I can never come to a full stop. I’ll keep clawing at the exhaustion wall until I make my way through or walk miles to find a new direction around it. I can never completely rest. My bad. I can only reset.
So, I am gradually resurfacing, trying to find my sense of humour, and other things. Bare with me.
Considering the insanity and chaos that has been happening globally since January 20th when a dictator to end all dictators took over the world, a person with all the bad traits of every dictator ever rolled into one, it is probably a good thing I tucked my head back into my shell for a while. Though admittedly, I doom scrolled quite a bit. And I worked as a Poll Clerk for both elections, so it was a bit difficult to ignore issues.
It is a bit uncomfortable to have a bully in the basement, but I have confidence in Canada that we can keep things together. I have been inspired by Charlie Angus who has done amazing things to unify Canadians into a common cause and remind us that inherently, Canadians are nice, but can be fierce. We have standards and morals. We definitely have a line in the sand and that made me see a Canada I haven’t seen in decades. Made me feel hope, which personally, I haven’t felt for a while.
I have had time to reflect on the state of the world and have decided to direct my next blogs to examining qualities that have faded from our society; decency, diplomacy, decorum and discipline. I’ll look at some people who have some of these traits, at least publicly, and some events and things to guide us back to a place of calm and not just raw emotion raging. This won’t be a sermon, I’m going to have fun with this.