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"I think the garden is a pretty cool aspect of what we do. I think it’s metaphorical. People come in and they start from the very beginning as little seeds and then they grow into something big and beautiful and we all celebrate that by ha
“It’s a place where you can work side by side and bond with the community members. Sometimes they’ve got a lot in their lives that’s against them and they’re not open to opening up. A garden like this becomes a common gr
"I’ll show you guys a trick that I learned at Elk Island National Park. ... If you’ve got any kind of bug bite, you chew on this lightly and then rub it on the bite and it’s gone almost immediately."
"The garden ... I remember working here as a summer student out here weeding and tilling with the clients and now just seeing that continue over the years and that the clients still have the same passion for it and understand what it means &hell
"I love music. I like to sing ... I knew I wasn't going to be a performer. So then I thought, "What am I going to do with music. I'm going to be a music teacher." So I started off as a music teacher ... and it means to make a differenc
"I’m dressed up for a job interview actually. I haven’t had it. It’s at 2:45. It’s for a senior manager position at my branch ... I’m a bit nervous so that’s why I came out for a walk and a sit down before ...
“I was born with albanism and growing up I faced a lot of adversity. Part of my albanism is that my vision is twenty-two hundred, which basically means that everything is zoomed out. If you’ve ever turned a lens or a pair of binoculars ov
“I was assaulted by someone I had known for fifteen years. Eighty percent of survivors have experienced acquaintance sexual assault, so someone they know or someone they care about. So for me, it felt important to speak out, to give a face to a
“For me it was just the pervasive nature of family violence. I had seen it, obviously, through my career … My background is thirty-odd years in provincial government, primarily in the area of child protection … When I became invol
“I work for The Family Centre, and I’m a youth liaison in south west Edmonton … I was born in India and being in India you are exposed to poverty. I was in India for eight years and then moved to Australia and basically grew up in
“When I was six, my father stabbed my mother to death in front of me in the middle of the night and so, he went to prison and she died. And I was stuck in foster care for the rest of my youth ... a lot of people think, ‘Maybe it was so ho
“I wrecked July 25, 1998. I was paralyzed from my neck down for three and a half months before I could even get a twitch … When I wrecked, I got hit in the head with a duck. I was riding my Harley Davidson. I looked down and I was doing