How can we be kind to each other, to other creatures, and to the world?
"A human life has value here." The heart-warming stories of ordinary Canadians successfully sponsoring and re-settling thousands of Syrian refugees. Canada showing how it's done.
Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome
TORONTO - One frigid day in February, Kerry McLorg drove to an airport hotel here to pick up a family of Syrian refugees. She was cautious by nature, with a job poring over insurance data, but she had never even spoken to the people who were about to move into her basement.
nytimes.com




Wonderful stories.
I wish more people in the world would learn from these examples.
I think it's the clearest definition of the difference between Canadian and US culture.
Yes. Canada helps others while the US trumps itself.
This is a really cool story. :)
It really is, Mimi.
How did your road trip go?
I made it. And there are llamas in the backyard. I also haven't left the bedroom other than to go to the bathroom at all today. It's afternoon, so I should probably do that. But that means moving and stuff.
Heh, you make me smile. It's good to move.
I'm glad you made it!
But bed. :P
This bed is pretty much the exact opposite of my bed at home. At home I sleep on a twin trundle bed. It's on the ground. This is a queen bed that my feet don't even touch the floor when I sit on the side. (And I'm tall. This bed is huge.) And there are llamas in the backyard. That's one thing I miss in LA. I do not have llamas.
If you move you can go visit the llamas!
Sounds like a nice bed though. I hear your dilemma.
Or I could look out the window and watch the llamas from the bed and not move. I can't see the horses or chickens from here.
So if you move you can see llamas, horses, AND chickens?
You gotta move!
But I have two and a half weeks. And I don't know these horses at all. Well, I know one of them, I was there when he was born. But I don't know the others. And chickens are boring. I saw all the cats and dogs last night. More accurately, I got licked by all the dogs last night and the cats cautiously approached me or sat in my lap or ran away depending on personality.
Sounds like a good excuse to stay in bed for now. :)
Well. I decided to eat. So now I'm surrounded by a Labrador and a grey and white fluffy cat.
Oh that sounds delicious! And delightful!!
And delovely.
If you say so, Ella.
Mostly delicious and delightful. Whatcha eating?
turkey and lettuce and mayo on a tortilla
That sounds yummy but no kosher mustard??
Is there nonkosher mustard? Either way, I don't really like mustard.
You don't like mustard?!
I think of brown mustard as kosher and yellow mustard as... Goy.
I think of both mustards as too spicy for me to like. :P
So you're not into hot sauce either then?
How about horseradish?
Ew. Nope. Nope. Nope.
So what do you put on gefilte fish?
Carrots. Or I eat it plain.
Wow! I thought it was just a vehicle for horseradish!
Do you eat knishes plain too?
I don't really eat knishes much. My mother was a vegetarian when I was growing up, so they weren't really part of our standard fare.
Aren't most knishes made of potato?
I'm learning all kinds of new stuff from you!
they're potato and meat, usually
I've never had one with meat!
The potato only ones are very tasty.
I'll keep that in mind if I'm ever off the diet I'm on!
What diet are you on?
It's to help with epilepsy.
Ah then I hope your diet works!
It helps to some extent. We're playing with meds right now, which is always fun. The diet along with medicine roulette at least makes it so I can drive during the day, so there's that.
Driving seems like progress. :)