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I wonder if anyone ever reads this. Has everyone lost hope in my blogging? I would. I know two blogs within 2 months time, I am going a little crazy on the blogging scene. I can't say that this will be a come back or I will write many more blogs. There use to be something entertaining in writing down my thoughts for others to read and them responding to it. I guess it was out of desire to share with others, maybe enlighten a few.  I wonder if I did it out of the joy of having a someone positively affirm my thoughts.

I recently thought about the fact that most people have a desire to be a good artist or musician, even if they don't necessarily have an interest in it. It amuses me because I think that this desire is out of the wanting to affirmed, it is easy to see when someone is good at art or can play the guitar well, and I think we desire to do well at these things so that others will see. I however think that we should aspire to be good at different things like math or geography or physics. These don't seem like glamorous things, but they are freaking sweet if, I knew the capitals of all the countries in the world, I would be proud. I also think that these things may be not be seen as things that you can be talented at like music and art, I beg to differ, I know many people that no matter how hard they try to learn math they just can't because their mind doesn't work like that and others that are really good at math and don't even try. I think also the desire of being talented with music or art is because both have effect on emotions. And that is where most good music and art derives from is the emotions of the artist/musician.

The next generation will see how it is superficial to want to be an artist or a musician and everyone will aspire to be mathematicians and engineers and geographers and geologist!

Gardening in the DTES

So, it has been a while.

Today was gardening day! Since I was a kid I loved gardening. There is something so great about seeing life come out of seed that seems so lifeless. I remember when I was young that I would plant the seed and want results right away. I would go out to the garden everyday with my watering can--thinking that it would do so magic on the seedlings--and be disappointed at the sight of my seeds not sprouting yet. I would get really impatient.

Eventually, the plants would grow, even though it felt like forever. And once they started to grow they would bigger and bigger and evenually reach their peak. I felt such satisfaction in this process. It was almost an accomplishment......I would always give myself the good ol' pat on the back.

We are right now in the process of digging and planting seeds and plants. It was interesting digging in this lot because it wasn't like digging in the garden in my backyard. In my backyard there was this nice soil filled with bugs, worms and occasionally salamanders, but in this lot the dirt was filled with rubble, trash, needles, wires, pretty much anything that you wouldn't want in it. To think that life could be brought out of this dirt that was so life less.

As I watched Ashley dig a hole for a tree to go in I saw how we are redeeming this land. I remember first coming to the DTES and seeing the lot filled with rubble and garbage. The idea of going in there and cleaning it out seemed hopeless and almost ridiculous. But now seeing what this lot is being transformed into shows me that it is going to become something unexpected.

While gardening today I was reminded of the mission to restore the DTES. I often lose hope in this mission because I feel that nothing is changing. I see all this rubble and trash and get intimidated and want to give up. Today I saw faith in action. Whoever decided that a garden needed to go in this lot had faith that it was possible, they did everything that they could to make it happen. And now I look at that lot that was once filled with rubble and looked so lifeless and it has flowers and trees and looks beautiful and full of life.

We need to be reminded that sometimes we plant seeds and expect them to sprout right away, but it doesn't happen like that. It takes time. Plant the seeds, water them, give them sun and have faith that they will grow. We can restore life to what we thought was dead.