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the road of a thousand miles

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Dear the blog:

I don’t want you to get too carried away, but I’m losing weight. Exercising almost every day. I take one day off a week. I’m very motivated. Eating a little more conscientiously. Settle down! I said a little more. There are limits to my madness. Marjorie suggested if I were serious I could maybe cut down on beer. I suggested I would rather eat my eyeballs. We’ll try the exercise first and see how it goes. Besides, lately I’m working mostly from home, so there’s no beer anyway.

The secret to committing to a fitness program, apparently, isn’t shoes or expensive equipment, or a gym membership or workout clothes. It’s not working out with a buddy, and it’s not being jealous of models. It’s not looking in the mirror and hating what you see. It’s definitely not buying into pop culture’s profit driven body image terrorism. Please do yourself the favour of rejecting pop culture’s profit driven body image terrorism.

For me it’s not that I hate the reflection– it’s wanting to like the reflection. It’s wanting a long & healthy life with somebody immensely important to me.

Seems to be working so far. I feel pretty good.

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the Olympic scandal that is our own damned self-righteousness

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In Monday’s Globe and Mail, Roy MacGregor judges us for judging the Canadian Womens Hockey team for their quiet Olympic victory celebration on home ice last week.

The ladies waited until the arena was empty, and wandered back out on to the ice, still in skates, still in uniform, still wearing their gold medals. They had a bottle of champagne to share. There was no screaming, no bouncing off the boards, no breaking of glass or even any drunken singing. According to someone who actually saw the spectacle, “I do not know if I have seen anything so sweet and so very, very, very Canadian.”

My hat is off to all the ladies, especially the so called “offending” 18 year old who had a beer, who just so happened to score both goals that brought them the gold.

In Europe (remember the other half of the world?), you’re pretty much old enough to drink when you say you are, and that extended trust leads to a much more mature attitude when it comes to alcohol. So, if your gripe is with the actual drinking, grow up. If your issue is with the tarnishing of the Olympics and Canada, then maybe you should remember that the Olympics is about the triumph of the human spirit, and these girls did just that, on home ice no less, for the first time in all of history. And the beer? This IS Canada, isn’t it?

Nobody got hurt. Nobody got rowdy. Nothing got broken. They were celebrating with pride at the site of their historic victory. Just as I would.

Maybe you wouldn’t. Your loss. Don’t make it theirs.

P.S. Congratulations to the fine men & women of the Olympic Canadian Hockey teams for bringing home the gold. Well played.

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