So today's not just a day off It's not just a day to wear and orange shirt and pretend you're helping It's a day to mourn It's a day to share these stories so we all know and feel the pain that Indigenous kids had to carry for generations

Waiting for Theodore.

We do not get to make it more palatable. We need to hold space for our discomfort and what we plan to do with it - and how we will live truth, so that we can move toward reconciliation.

Oh apparently they’re not doing that till next year. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I would legitimately love to share the recording because a long-time colleague, who is known for being so nice and kind and modest and self-deprecating, really just went for their jugulars and it was beautiful.

Okay technically he isn't, but could be: the problem with being really good at chess and living in Atlantic Canada is that there aren't enough qualifying events. Regardless, Intermezzo is for me.

Oh yes, had one of those who kept interrupting me to say wrong things about the library’s catalogue. Who’s the one with admin control of the catalogue here, bud?

This was a demo for the whole consortium, so it was a wide and varied group of people all united in anger!

Yup, already sent in.

I let the ones ready to go for the jugular get right in there.