Quote of the Day – December 01 2012

“We must measure our goodness, not by what we don’t do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, or who we exclude. Instead we should measure ourselves by what we embrace, what we create and who we include.”
― Pere Henri

Tomorrow I return home from Long Beach. This journey has been a good one. It confirmed for me the importance of getting out in nature and just walking. I also had it confirmed for me how much I enjoy meeting friends in real time whom I have previously known only on FB or other forms of  social media and how many really great people I have met over the years.

I have also come to take a closer look at the word inclusion. So many people talk about and even dedicate their lives to making sure that the people they champion are included in the community. I have worked on occasion with a non-profit agency in BC who sees the inclusion of people with physical and mental disabilities into the community as being one of their main functions. Yet I have seen many of these same people being dismissive of homeless people or others who they find to ‘off-beat’ to fit easily into their worlds. Well I guess we all have our blind spots and I too have areas of surprising ignorance.

I’ll leave you with this question tho. When you think of inclusion, who would you leave out and why?
Blessings, G

 

 

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