Definition: word<pronounced<wərd, plural<words
A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.a command, password, or signal. “I don’t like the word “unofficial””Similar:term name expression designation location turn of phrase idiom appellation vocable.
Definition: Truth<pronounced> trooth<noun
- the quality or state of being true.”he had to accept the truth of her accusation”Similar:veracitytruthfulnessveritysinceritycandorhonestygenuinenessgospelgospel truthaccuracycorrectnessrightnessvalidityfactualnessfactualityauthenticitydinkum oilOpposite:dishonestyfalsity
- that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.noun: the truth“tell me the truth”
Definition: rec·on·cil·i·a·tion: reconciliation; plural noun: reconciliations
- 1.the restoration of friendly relations.”his reconciliation with your uncle”Similar:reunitingreunionconciliationreconcilementpacificationappeasementplacatingpropitiationmollificationresolutionsettlementrectificationsettlingresolvingmendingremedyingrestoration of harmonyagreementcompromiseunderstandingpeacean end to hostilitiesamityconcordrapprochementdetentefence-mendingharmonizingharmonizationsynthesissquaringadjustmentbalancingsyncretizationOpposite:estrangementalienationfeudincompatibility
- 2.the action of making one view or belief compatible with another.”he aims to bring about a reconciliation between art and technology”
The rezzy memes
When 215 becomes 5296 and hardly no one is talking about it… there is a problem.
Words can hurt, words can heal, words that need(ed) to be said but can never be unheard. Words that trigger thought or memory. Words can bring up curiosity and wonder. Words tell a story, offer explanation, give instruction. Words can cause and altercation, discontent and confusion or bring up debate and discussion. Words emote feelings and expression. But for me the reason for this post on words is a trigger word. Trigger words are not always bad either. Many of us think triggered as we become angry, but a word can trigger a memory, a thought of a lost loved one. That is the trigger words I was thinking of yesterday as I made dinner, naming the food in my head as I cooked, the specific ingredient that suddenly triggered a name or person to which my mind relates it to. How often are words, smells thoughts triggers?
Sorry. A simple but extremely powerful word. Sorry.
Sorry for what I said. Sorry for what I did.
In recent months the residential school murders have been unearthed. Not discovered, as these communities have always known. And a few, who cared to learn, learned of residential schools and it’s torture of young indigenous children in post secondary because for what now seems to be obvious reasons the government has chosen not to teach it in the K-12 school curriculum, though some amazing teachers take it upon themselves to include it.
Having had many arguments with my “white” counter parts about reparations and the need to acknowledge what we as landed immigrants have done. They, for the most part throw out the usual, they don’t pay taxes! They have free reserve land, their drunks… It’s hard to listen to and I have always pushed back on these people. Mostly because I am a compassionate human who has empathy. But more so because my dad whose father was Filipino, to which made him look native with a white mother and was incessantly teased. For being native. Like there is something wrong with being a real native person to this country, an indigenous person with actual right to this land.
I bought this book for someone I know who constantly argued that ‘Natives” didn’t have it that bad, that we have made things up to them and that they were tired of hearing about it. I would constantly ask if they really knew the extend of what white settlers did to them? This book does an amazing job at pointing out the facts in timeline form what exactly was done by the newly formed Canadian government of white men who wanted this land and to diminish aboriginal people it originally belonged to.
Thank you for reading,
Sheri
Dealing With My Grief 