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Le Monument à la Gloire de l'infanterie belge se trouve dans la capitale belge à Bruxelles, sur la place Poelaert, en face du Monument britannique et au nord-est du palais de Justice

Le monument, conçu par le sculpteur Edouard Vereycken et l'architecte Antoine De Mol, commémore les fantassins belges tombés au combat pendant les Première et Seconde Guerres mondiales.

Il est situé sur une plate-forme surélevée qui surplombe le centre-ville de Bruxelles

Description
Le monument semble colossal. Il consiste en un grand obélisque en pierre bleue. Sa hauteur importante est vue comme symbole de reconnaissance et de glorification de l'infanterie belge. Il est surmonté d'une couronne dorée qu'entourent quatre soldats tenant chacun une épée.

Cet obélisque est placé au sommet d'un piédestal carré bleu. Dans le socle se trouve une crypte à l'intérieur de laquelle il y a une statue étendue. La crypte est fermée par une porte métallique de part et d'autre. De chaque côté de ces grilles, il y a deux soldats de pierre veillant devant la crypte. Les deux soldats représentent respectivement un grenadier et un chasseur à pied de 1914.

Au bas du monument se trouve un groupe de statues figurant une scène militaire. Au milieu de ce groupe se trouve une grande figure centrale. Cette silhouette féminine est ailée et porte une longue robe et symbolise la victoire.

Autour de cette figure centrale, le monument est construit symétriquement. Elle est ainsi entourée des deux côtés par des fantassins en uniforme et en équipement. Le caractère dramatique de la scène est renforcé par les regards et les poses très expressifs des fantassins.

Inauguration
Initialement, le monument était prévu pour être placé au sommet du jardin botanique, à l'angle de l'ancien observatoire royal. Le comité exécutif décida d'organiser un concours pour la conception du monument. Le sculpteur Edouard Vereycken et l'architecte Antoine De Mol, tous deux blessés pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, remportèrent ce concours.

En 1932, il fut décidé que le monument serait plutôt édifié sur la place Quetelet, ce qui engendra de vives protestations. En conséquence, à la fin de 1933, on modifia de nouveau l'emplacement pour se porter finalement sur la Place Poelaert.

Le 5 mai 1935, le monument est inauguré par le roi Léopold III.

Monument classé
Le 6 mai 2015, le mémorial fut classé monument protégé. Cette décision a été prise sur base de sa valeur historique, sociale, artistique et esthétique

Inscriptions
Le monument comporte également diverses inscriptions honorant l'héroïsme des soldats belges victimes ou non.

Face avant:

Face arrière:

Références

Mémoire de la Première Guerre mondiale en Belgique
Monument à la Gloire de l'infanterie belge

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hopefully we can get out there and play with you in March.
I rarely get dressed. Sweats and slippers, slippers and sweats.
Boxes and tape and labels.
You don't realize how dusty your house is until you are cramming it into tiny boxes.
....or maybe that is just my house.....?
option b is winning quite often.
Sifting through memories and Once Upon a Times.
Going through baby clothes is....hard....stuff.
....I think I have something in my eye.
Remember to tag your instagram photos #howweweekend so I can see how you're out playing--it's the last weekend in February! I'm hoping I can sneak away for a quick run.
One by One Project! (check it out HERE if you missed it).
Thank you for your comments, emails, ideas, and thank you for grabbing buttons and your help spreading the word. Thank you for sharing on twitter and facebook and pinterest and all the other little corners of the web--thank you! I am so excited for your help with this project, and I have so many ideas swimming around in my brain--this is going to be a lot of fun.
We have been feeling the need to move out of the city and simplify, and finally decided to take the plunge. This new (super old) little house will be a stepping stone for us the next couple of years, and we look forward to all we will be able to experience there.....it really will be an adventure!
We will be downsizing our home, learning to garden at a higher altitude, and finishing out the remainder of the school year testing the waters of homeschool.....so much to learn.
I realized a while ago that I have the BEST blog readers. In the universe.
You always have the smartest things to say and I love that I can rely on you for answers.
When we moved into this house six years ago we had a nearly two year old, a bun in the oven (about to explode out), and hardly any furniture at all. We had moved around several times our first years of marriage, and with few belongings....we were pretty good at it.
I don't know how to move now!
dating. 2002. 22 and 19.
You wanna know about true love?
true love is wearing his Ts because they are WAY more comfortable.
true love is HIM accepting the fact that my hair will forever clog the drains, and ME accepting the fact that he will never stop biting his fingernails.
true love is when he always eats the end of the sushi roll because the ends are always so big! I'm just not a fan of end-sushi, I'm sorry.
true love is laying in bed in the morning lonnng after the alarm went off, and trying to decide who is making breakfast and what is for breakfast, and who is making lunch and what is for lunch.
wait--is that true love, or just lazy parenting?
true love is that I always load the dishwasher wrong, and that he refuses to look behind things when he's looking in the fridge "I don't see it! we must be out" "uh, yes dear, move the ketchup".
true love is that sometimes we lay in bed at night side by side, each reading our own book and joke that we feel like the Huxtables (except my pajamas aren't as fancy).
true love is two Littles running around that are bits of HIM and bits of ME.
true love is my very favorite person to run/hike/bike/climb/explore/laugh/eat pizza with.
true love is all the little things. the quirky things. the mismatched things that make you fit together. jussssst right.
What is true love to YOU?
If you are usually more of a skimmer and casual picture-looker, and not one that always reads my long winded rambles.....I ask that maybe I could just steal away a few minutes of your day and have you read this....just this one time. I need your help.
I want to start something, a project, and I need you....and you! And your sisters and your friends and your uncles and your mom. All of you.
In last month's post I had mentioned my desire to make this little Internet space different.
Fill it with content that will be helpful and worthwhile, instead of just wasteful and time consuming Internet fluff.
When January got too cold, we ran away to the desert. After a long day of playing on the rocks and soaking up the sunshine, we returned to the house we were staying in, dumped the sand from our shoes, and got to work on dinner. We enjoyed a grilled feast with friends and spent the evening with full bellies and long conversations. We spoke of parenting and adventures and then somehow got on the topic of "making a difference". We had been talking about different documentaries we'd all seen, and while the end credits always left us feeling inspired, we realized that we really can't do much in the form of activism. As much as we would like to run off and "save the _______", being young parents with low budgets and day to day responsibilities, it's hard to get out and DO something, even if we really wanted to.
How can one person make a difference? Can they?
Woke up in the middle of the night......thinking.
Flash forward through the next few weeks.....more thinking. Pondering. Wondering.
As strange as it sounds.....bloggers have power.
I am sometimes amazed at how much time and money people put into their blogs.
Why spend so much on something that's not even tangible--it's not real!
It's something that won't even be around in ten years?!
Crafts and new fashions and awkward self portraits.....why do we need these things?
Did you know there are conferences throughout the year you can go and learn to be a better blogger? I wonder if in twenty years people will look back and wonder why they poured so much money into something flashy on their computer screen.
And will they wish for precious hours back with their friends and families?
So much time trying to better nothing more than an image and an Internet space, when that time could be used to better the world around us.
What if we used the Internet--our blogs-- as a tool for good? What if we spent some of our time and energy and talents in actually trying to make a difference, instead of just growing our readership and making ourselves look fancy.
Let's use the power of the Internet to do something meaningful.
Something we can look back on and feel good about when we are 103 years old.
Let's join forces for good, shall we?
No plane ticket or fancy outfit required.
So here is my idea. It's small. Simple.
It has the potential to grow......IF you can help me. I can't do it alone.
What if every few weeks I posted a challenge. Something very doable that we ALL can participate in--I know you don't need another item on your to-do list.
Just a small action that could potentially make a difference in someone's life.
Do a small act of service.
Write a note to someone.
Pick up a piece of trash.
Or how about time spent that could make US a better person--enrich our REAL life, not our Internet life.
And if we were all doing it together, maybe we COULD actually make a difference.
Let's say I'm walking through a parking lot and pick up a piece of trash I see blowing across the pavement.
ONE piece of trash in the garbage.....meh. Big deal.
Our streets and parks around the world just got a little bit cleaner.
And then you tell your friends (and neighbors! and cousins!).....and they help out too.
We can all work on this together--reaching out to those around us. Enriching our own lives. Little steps at a time. It's hard for one person to make a difference on our own......but one by one, maybe....just maybe....we can get something going.
I promise to make it easy. And fun! Always fun.
Talking to the wise and knowledgeable Whitney Ingram (yes, THE Cookbook Whitney) she brought up a good point. The Internet (blogs, facebook, instagram, etc and etc) have made it so we all feel the need to brag about every little thing we do.
"if you tell someone about it, it doesn't count."
I don't want us to be bragging and posting photos of all our wonderful do-goodery. That is not the point. However, should you have incredible story of some sort, or a life changing experience.....please let me know. I would love to share your story here--it's good for us all to hear encouraging and heart warming stories of kindness. Has someone served YOU? I want to hear about that too.
But for the most part, let's keep our little acts silent, so they can all count.
Should we see if we can little by little, one by one, try to make a difference on this mighty earth?
We are going to start out as basic and simple as we can get.
I want everyone to play along--no excuses!
Yes sir and mam. Just smile. A little extra than usual.
Smile at that guy who took your parking spot.
Smile at the girl who puts her yoga mat waaaaaay too close to yours and you can smell her feet.
Smile when you really don't want too. The world needs more smiles, so let's start today.
You and me and you and you.
See?! Easy challenge to start us out. I would love to hear your ideas for challenges--I plan on rotating between ways we can better those around us, ourselves, and the Earth. I have my list going but would love to add some of your ideas. I want a good combination of small gestures we can do for others to spread happiness, and small changes we can make in our individual lives that will lead to us being happier.
The more people we can get on board, the more of a difference we can actually start to make.
Please take a button if you'd like to post on your blog, and link to our challenges.
Wow! Did you make it through that whole thing?
I am so excited to work together and see what we can do.
lately the sun has been shining .
lately I've been wondering what book to read?
dejunking and tossing and donating and making piles all over the house.
must. get. rid. of. stuff.
lately I've been itching to run. and run and run. I could hit the road.....but I need my trails to not be under a foot of snow.
lately we've been spending a lot of time on the other side of the mountain.
playing. breathing fresh air. dreaming of packing up and moving in.
we looked at a house with pink kitchen counters and too many cats.
and yes, lately we are still juicing....never gets old.
I found a new combination with beet that isn't as "beety" as our sweet beet juice we made.
This has just a touch of beet, but lots of other flavors for those of you may not love a strong beet flavor like I do.
We loved this juice.....all of us!
bonus: lately I've been saving the carrot pulp and throwing it in soup.
What are YOU juicing this week?
I'm sorry I was so rude in last week's post....let's try it again, shall we?
You're not.....that bad. You do have some good qualities going for you.....like the fact that you are only 28 days long.
Way to go February! You have finally done something right.
Where did you go????! I woke up Friday morning and you were nowhere to be found. NOWHERE. Saturday you stayed away. Sunday I had to yell with all my might just to get a squeak out.
Monday I sounded like a man. Please come back. please.
oh so many stories to tell!
You are so much fun. Especially when two moms (one of them.....me....) go barreling down the hill so fast (like, breaking the sound barrier, fast) and are UNABLE TO STOP AND CRASH THROUGH THE FENCE. That happened. Oh, and remember how I had no voice to warn the children I was crashing into??!!!
The Cookbook in the last few months.
We. Are. Almost. Done. Just a few more shoots and then off it goes to The Man, who will turn it into a pretty book (The Family Flavor) for your hands to behold.
Follow us on instagram for weekly updates of what we are shooting (I'm now @_sheenarae on IG and whitney is @whitneyingram)....see you there!
Oh how I love when the sun warms me all the way through. After all our single digit temperatures we are basking in this warm weather. Windows open! Bike riding! Wishing our legs weren't so pasty!
hello old friends. It's been a long few months without you. If it's over 30° you'll be on my feet as I head to yoga. Glad we are back together.
You are fun. Thanks for entertaining us through the winter.
I figure it can't hurt.
sometime within the next few months (ish).
If you know of someone who has a rental property up there, could you email me at sheenajibson at gmail.
(and I will let you know when we put our house up for rent (again, hopefully within the next few months(ish) (fingers crossed)) and you can tell all your friends to come and rent The Little Red House!
Here is your February desktop calendar! Sorry there is only one.....I really don't have any snowy February pictures because if we are out playing in the snow I usually don't have my big camera.
But besides.....by February we are usually tired of snow (right?!) so here is a nice, bright, non-wintry desert for your desktop.
I love the warm flavor of curry in the winter (posted a curry recipe last February too) and this soup did not disappoint. I found the recipe on the Scaling Back blog and just tweaked it a little bit....I added some carrots, and a few more spices, used full fat coconut milk and yellow lentils instead of red.
and warms you up on a dreary February day.
Heat 1-2 tablespoons of coconut oil and add the onions, bell pepper, carrot and jalapeno. Cook until veggies begin to get tender. Add the garlic, ginger, curry, spices, salt and tomato paste and continue to cook for 2-3 more minutes. Add the water, coconut milk, lentils and chickpeas, bring to a low boil, and cook uncovered for 25 to 30 minutes, until lentils are tender. Stir in the lime juice, and give it a taste to see if you need any more lime or salt. Serve with cilantro, lime, and fresh naan.
How do YOU feel about February?
can I just close my eyes and dream you away?


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How the White House is building 'guard rails' for AI
By: Kelsey Reichmann June 25
The action plan created by the White House aims to harness the power of AI to analyze and apply federal data, while assuring security, Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent said. (Cliff Owen/AP)
The White House in June released an action plan to address productivity and security while modernizing IT, and one central facet is the integration of artificial intelligence into the roadmap for leveraging the daily volumes of data as a federal asset. Government polices must evolve alongside technologies, according to the White House's strategy, and so must how AI is integrated at federal agencies.
The White House plans to approach AI as a means to improve manual tasks and free federal workers to do higher value work, said Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent at the June 25 AI World Government Conference held in Washington, D.C.
Will government be ready for the explosion of data?
With data production expected to increase tenfold, the government has a lot to do to get ready, federal CIO Suzette Kent said.
By: Jessie Bur
Benefits could include insights for policy development, first responders and self-driving vehicles, an improvement in the overall customer experience, and much more.
"What are the capabilities of the individual technologies as well as, from a workforce perspective, how it can fit in the environment that they are operating in against the mission they are trying to serve," said Kent, explaining that four ingredients must be present for success: high-quality data, modern networks, advanced computing systems, and ethics and security.
According to Kent, the White House action plan aims to harness the power of AI using federal data. But first agencies must make sure that the data collected is in a form that can actually be used by the federal government.
"Consider this initial policy step something like guard rails," Kent said. "We are purposely defining it in that way so that we can support agencies in their exploration and application of our technologies so that their journey is matched with the appropriate level of control and discipline based on the expected outcome and the consequence of that activity."
AI has already featured prominently in recent policy and legislative documents, including the March 2018 President's Management Agenda's data cross-agency priority goals, as well as executive orders, the formation of the President's Select Committees on AI, defined priorities in the budget process, components of the national cyber strategy, strategies from specific agencies and congressional attention in both the House and Senate.
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"The whole of government has a focus on AI capabilities and federal leadership is united in making this a priority," Kent said.
However, there are concerns about the unintended implications of such a complex technology on both the public and the federal workforce; for instance, whether there are ethical implications of using AI in federal networks and could federal employees see their jobs replaced by new technology.
"Yes, there are some manual jobs where we have opportunities to do it better, lower margin of error, less time, more efficient outcomes, but it also creates new jobs," said Kent, who added that making sure the federal workforce has the necessary skills to fill these jobs will be a concern that will have to be addressed through the education system and will force a reconsideration of how all American workers are trained.
Officials: Don't leave employees out of cloud migration
Workforce retraining must be part of the cloud migration, according to speakers at the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center.
By: Andrew Eversden
Kent characterized it as a meeting of both federal and national workforce priorities.
And, to ensure the security of data collected by agencies, the government is also focusing on identity, credentials, and access management on federal networks by understanding who is accessing these networks, Kent said.
Expanding this AI-focused IT modernization will make the role of chief data officers increasingly important, according to Kent, but the first step is to get more agencies working with the technology.
"Our goal is to just get them to start," Kent said.
About Kelsey Reichmann
Kelsey Reichmann is a general assignment editorial fellow supporting Defense News, Fifth Domain, C4ISRNET and Federal Times. She attended California State University.
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The Weekly's Charlie Pickering Calls Out Pete Evans In Rant
Charlie Pickering has pulled apart the Paleo diet and Pete Evan's claims that "Food is Medicine", in a rant on his show The Weekly.
On Sunday night, both Channel Seven and Nine aired segments on the Paleo diet, and the health benefits.
It mimics the way our ancestors would eat, i.e. removing dairy, sugars and most breads.
The diet increases the intake of meats, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
This is something that, by itself, it fine. Except that Pete Evans is convinced that "Food Is Medicine".
On Channel Seven's segment, they had Mike Willesee, veteran reporter, try out the diet.
"The diet promoted by a guy who writes books on Paleo is being assessed by a guy who writes a blog on paleo, on a network whose star is the face of Paleo and the only independent voice in this equation is Mike Willesee and he doesn't even know what a market is," Pickering said.
"Thankfully Paleo doesn't say anything about cutting down on conflicts of interest."
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Jaipur, Feb 10 (IBNS): In order to prevent protesting Gujjar community members from blocking a highway connecting Dholpur to Gwalior, the Rajasthan Police on Sunday resorted to firing, reports said.
The demonstrators, however, kept the road blocked.
The Gujjar members are protesting in demand of five per cent quota in jobs and education. Their protest entered its third day on Sunday.
The fresh developments occurred in Rajasthan's Dholpur area when the protesting members of the community moved to occupy National Highway 3.
The action has not caused any death, the police told NDTV.
The police claimed that two of their vehicles were torched by protesters.
Demanding reservation for five communities, including Gujjars, their leader Kirori Singh Bainsla started a sit-in protest with his supporters on the railway tracks in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Friday.
Several members of the community blocked railway tracks on the second day of their agitation on Saturday.
The protest is happening at a time when the Parliament, a few days ago, cleared 10 per cent quota for the economically weaker sections in the general category in jobs and education.
As the country is gearing up for the Lok Sabha polls, the move was introduced as a constitutional amendment, passed in parliament and then enacted in a short period of time by the government.


Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has said around Rs38 billion credit extended by banks and financial institutions (BFIs) is at risk due to the damage caused by the April 25 earthquake to projects and collaterals.
As of the 10th month of the fiscal year, the BFIs have extended loans and advances of Rs1.48 trillion. This means share of the loans at risk stands at 2.55 percent.
The Post Disaster Risk Assessment (PDNA) report has put total property damage and business losses of the financial sector, including both banking and insurance, at Rs 31.9 billion. "During the PDNA report preparation, all BFIs had not reported about t6he damage and business losses. So, the PDNA showed lower level of losses," said NRB Spokesperson Min Bahadur Shrestha.
Keeping in mind the possible impact on loan recovery, the central bank had asked the BFIs to submit details of the loans that could be affected and the status of the collaterals. The central bank aimed at announcing relief measures for BFIs and borrowers after receiving the details.
Shrestha said it does not mean that all the loans that have been categorised risk-prone are not repayable.
Bankers say they are not sure whether the recovery would be smooth as most of the loans are usually repaid at the end of each quarter.
Business losses faced by tourism and real estate sectors are particularly expected hit to loan recovery. As per the PDNA, tourism sector sustained losses of Rs 81 billion, while owners' occupied dwellings and public assets worth Rs303 billion were damaged. Adding business losses due to damages to the dwellings, total losses in the realty sector stands at Rs350.54 billion.
Of the damaged houses, many might have been put up as collateral or some might have been built with loans from BFIs. The report has said the banking sector is expected to see modest deterioration in the loan portfolio quality, impacting the BFIs' solvency.
As of Mid-May, BFIs' residential home loans of up to Rs8 million stands at Rs114 billion, and loans to real estate, including bigger projects, stands at Rs84.88 billion.


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The Mercy – Film Review
Posted on February 16, 2018 by robgresham
This film is one of those where it's a true story, but sort of unknown to the average person in the modern world. I hadn't heard of Donald Crowhurst and his tragedy until this film started. It's 1968 and amateur sailor Crowhurst (Colin Firth) has decided he's going to compete in a sailing race around the world, and he means to do it all in record time. His wife Clare Crowhurst (Rachel Weisz) can't quite believe he's going to do it, but then he actually sets off. From the very start it's clear how unprepared he is, and how tough the journey is going to be.
There's a sense of hopelessness in this film, and a feeling of dread from the beginning. It's not a spoiler to say he dies out at sea, because one it's a true story that has been told on screen many times, and two because the film presents it as a desperate effort all the way through. Before he leaves as an audience member you are frustrated and worried, because you can tell that it is all going to go horribly wrong. Crowhurst gets caught up in the pressure of going because of the money he has been given by sponsors, and all the media attention on him. This creates an unsettling viewing, but one done well by director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything). He manages to make it still interesting to watch whilst you feel like shouting at the screen "DON'T GO!"
There are some liberties taken to get to when Crowhurst actually leaves, so the building the boat and preparation is cut through quickly. However this lack of depth is made up for later on the film through flashbacks that mostly work. There are a couple that are a bit sappy, and cliché British but other than that the drama landed. I really felt like even though Crowhurst made the wrong decisions, they were understandable. And Colin Firth is great in the film. He really captures the shift from optimism to despair in Crowhurst, and his physical anguish as the runtime progresses is also convincing. Weisz is stoic and so there isn't really a massive emotional release moment for her. Her performance of trying to hold it all together adds another level of misery to the film. And David Thewlis playing quite a sleazy guy is entertaining to watch.
Overall I thought the film was good. The directing was neat with some moments of beauty and they handled the story with care. It has some big screen sensibilities and Marsh is obviously talented, however I wouldn't recommend everyone go out and see it. It is quite a desolate experience and it lacks an engaging, or exciting edge to make it something to shout about. One thing I would say is that it has re-told a fascinating story to a new audience, and with great respect to the real people involved.
Is it worth the price of the cinema ticket?
Sure, but don't expect to feel happy during it.
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Emily Ellison is a second year MFA poet at Texas State University, where she also works as a Teaching Assistant for their English faculty. Her work has appeared in Southword, After the Pause, and Haiku Journal, and is upcoming in several places. Emily lives in San Marcos, Texas with two cats and an abundance of plants (withering at the moment).
Content by Emily Ellison
The Truth of Beauty: An Interview with Erika Sánchez
BY Emily Ellison
I feel like I've inherited these traumas in some ways. I also think about metaphysical borders and spiritual borders and emotional borders . . . It's not just the physical Mexican-American border—it's much more than that.
Arts & Culture, Field Notes,
Decorum and Dare: Crafting the Interview's Energy
Most people want to be heard. The interview, however daunting that term may seem, is essentially just a conversation in which both participants agree to dance without looking away, fielding the stumbles and rises.
Reviving the Beauty of a Nightmare: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado
But it's okay to wait, to try to find the right language and to find the right word. Because it isn't enough to just transfer the pain of your body to the page: it has to be interesting, it has to beautiful, it has to do something for the audience or else it's just secondhand pain.
With Our Mouths Open: An Interview with Sarah Gambito on Food and Lyrical Sweetness
I feel like we're in such tumultuous times right now, and we need to uphold the linked roles of artists and audience—so how do we activate each equally, right? I'm less interested in the how the artist performs, where there's this sort of passivity in the audience—not that that's not a lovely thing, it's a lovely thing. But I'm interested in how you get the audience to act towards, in some ways, what it is you're doing.
The Blues of Grace: An Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne
You know the "poetry noise" people make—it's like, "Oh" [released breath]. I feel like that's the sound of the poem connecting; that's the sound that these words have landed somewhere, and you've received them. That exchange, or possibility of exchange, between a poet and poem or a reader and listener—I think that's what grace is made of sometimes.
In Pursuit of Pursuit: An Interview with Karen Olsson
I think with novel writing or narrative book writing in general, you have to have a journeyman approach. You cannot expect to be inspired through three hundred pages of prose. My attitude is just to go to work in the morning, clock in, and sit down there, because often it's when you're not inspired and you make yourself sit there that something happens you didn't think was going to happen.
Reviews,
Wakes of Joy: On Ross Gay's "The Book of Delights"
Gay declares every day an occasion to commemorate, similar to how the sun, when rising, also beams. Delight, he says, "suggests both 'of light' and 'without light.' And both of them concurrently is what I'm talking about. What I think I'm talking about. Being of and without at once. Or: joy."
"The Mantle of Daughter": A Discussion of Ancestry with Nikky Finney
And so, I'm a daughter of Toni Morrison, though not bloodline; but kinship-wise, and culturally, we are akin. I have a responsibility—to not necessarily say what she has said about being a daughter but to recognize my place in that continuum and welcome other daughters of all cultures into that—because who celebrates that except your family?
To Lie Down in the Field of What We Do Not Know: Interrogations of Epistemology with Robert Wrigley
Human life is invested in epistemological difficulties—just finding your ass with both hands these days is a challenge. But I think that nature, if we involve ourselves in it, if we just spend time [deeply inhales] looking at trees, smelling rocks… I like to crawl, I like to lie down in the woods a lot, I do that a lot, which has made me famous to the animals and my neighbors too.
Breaking the Borders of the Artist: An Interview with Fernando A. Flores
Whenever I'm writing, I have a "different brain." As a writer, my main goal is to protect that first brain which is the first-draft-brain. And I just have to let this brain get from beginning to end. After that, I can do whatever I want with the page. That's how I approach my work now.
The Art of Reconstruction: Cyrus Cassells in Conversation with Tyehimba Jess
First off, for me, sonnets are great for telling stories. A crown of sonnets can tell a great story. And I'm pretty much a storyteller. Secondly, folks in the 19th century loved sonnets. They dug Shakespeare, it was a familiar form. So, in a psychological or spiritual way for connecting with the people in the book, they were an avenue for making that happen.


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A few months ago I came across this quote in a poster created by the 'Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies', that was advertising an exciting speech competition called 'Speakers Idol'. This contest gives Ontario youth the opportunity to enhance their writing skills and public speaking abilities, while exploring real world issues that matter to young people. After doing more research, I learned that Simon Wiesenthal was an inspirational Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. This organization is committed to honouring his legacy through Holocaust education, and Speakers Idol is a platform for youth to learn more about his story and give their perspective on one of his quotes.
I found his assertion to be very intriguing, so I put my pen to paper and developed a three-minute speech that I sent in along with hundreds of other applicants across Ontario. I was very excited to have made it past the semi-finalist round and into the finalist round that took place on March 27th at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts. It was a truly unforgettable experience to stand alongside 9 passionate and eloquent young people who are all raising their voices.
Below you can find a written transcript of my speech, as well as a video that was filmed.
Our world's history is fraught with a long line of malicious and corrupt rulers who have caused tremendous pain, violence, and suffering for millions. Each of these heinous leaders share the corrupt ideology that the freedom to spread hatred is an extension of freedom of speech. Many years ago, Simon Wiesenthal, an influential Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter affirmed that "Freedom of speech is not freedom to propagate hatred." This statement was true during the Holocaust in World War II, and it is still relevant in 2018. However, I believe that the deep-rooted meaning of his assertion is that uncontrolled hate speech leads to the rise of evil power.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental component of a just and democratic society. However, what many people fail to recognize is that Canada was not created simply on the basis of freedom – our country was born out of a dream for justice and equality for all. Freedom of speech can only function within an equitable society if reasonable limits are placed on the extent to which individuals can express their opinions about others.
During the early 1900s, as Adolf Hitler began expressing his abhorrence for the Jewish population, others began listening to his words and felt justified in expressing their own latent hateful beliefs. During World War II, the Nazis used their power to deny the basic humanity of an entire religious group. The devastation caused by Hitler's reign is a powerful example of the snowball effect that one person can create by abusing their freedom of speech.
More than seventy years after World War II ended, this snowball effect can be observed once again in the global political theater. During the 2016 US election, Donald Trump capitalized on the nation's fears and exposed the suppressed attitudes of a subsection of the American people, empowering his followers to begin turning their thoughts into action. The impact of the Donald Trump era has demonstrated the importance of drawing the line between constructive conversation and blatant discrimination.
Simon Wiesenthal emphasised that hate speech serves no purpose to our society except to further silence those already stripped of their voices and humanity. As Canadians, it is essential that we work to preserve and protect our shared values and beliefs by calling out hate speech when we hear it, putting pressure on our government to continue enacting change to protect marginalized groups, and giving our support to victims of hate speech. It is only when clear lines are drawn between free speech and hate speech that discrimination will cease, and inclusivity will prevail.
I am honoured to have had this opportunity to share my passion, and I am very grateful to the organizers and judges who helped to ensure that Speakers Idol 2018 was such a success!


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