Oh for the time of bumble bees!

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans...
John Lennon...I think!

Today I stood balanced on one leg for the first time...I was the last in the class to do this.

And I had a memory. Many years ago I had a girl in my grade eleven class whose brother had had an operation for a brain tumour in the summer. He was in grade seven and brilliant and a diver. He came back to school very damaged. The class decided to go bowling one day and we brought Charles with us. The students were really good with Charles but there was one moment where they were all paying attention to each other. I looked down the lanes and there was Charles by himself with a bowling ball. He had been figuring out what it was all about. He threw the ball and made a strike and understood that he had made a strike even though he could not articulate it. In his movement I saw the former athlete. I was the only witness and I smiled and he smiled and we laughed. I told the others but by that time, Charles had no idea what he had done.

    Today when I balanced on one foot, I understood his sense of accomplishment.

I love my camera...if my pictures are imperfect, it is my fault! I use this blog to post my pictures. I use this blog when I have something to say. I use this blog when I find quirky stuff that really appeals to me. 

As much as people go on about horses, they are still very large and they have weird teeth.

To quote Google and the Olympic charter:

"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter

 

Much and all as I support the google doodle about the trampling of gay rights...
I am profoundly saddened by the Canadian athletes in these games who have forgotten that we won our medals in Vancouver because we behaved like Canadians...now we are practicing the art of trash talking and I can only hope that the American snow boarder was wrong and that those slopes are safe...but I respect his right to say no - just as I respect the right of the gay rights people to say no...

Alas, our politicians have become such trash talkers that we are losing our identity...

I will not be watching the games...
I'm terrified that our young people will so busy trash talking that they will not be safe...

I am terrified that Mr. Putin will commit some horrifying acts just to make his point...
I am terrified that lives will be lost...
I will read books for the next two weeks...