Like many, I presume, I spent as much time thinking about what to say and pithy names as I did creating this blog. Well, OK, maybe more. Then, as I sat staring peripherally at my screen, my eyes focussed on the quaint Post-its and photos born of film push-pinned to my corkboard, I realized I would probably never have much to say about anything but I could probably say something about a lot of things.
So this initial post is about a dream. Not mine, exactly, but one I share in principle w/ the creator of that dream, Teddy Kennedy. And that's because his famous quote from his 1980 Democratic convention speech "THE WORK GOES ON, THE CAUSE ENDURES, THE HOPE STILL LIVES AND DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE" is the most prominent item on my corkboard. But I didn't even know it was from his 1980 speech when I clipped it out of the Globe last August, the day after he died. It is so relevant a message today - given the state of health-care reform -- I assumed it was just that, a message to all of us to continue his legacy and to change health care in this nation. His complete speech can be found here.
That I'm Canadian (although I've now lived more years in the US than in Canada after emigrating when I was 19) has something to do with why I align so naturally with Kennedy's ideas on health-care, but certainly not all. Rather, I consider health-care a human right, a civil right, and that is much less about my nationality than it is about being a human being on this earth.
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