To Every Flower

My Joyous Feature

To every flower out there you have that blooming sensation. To be shown everywhere like you have that very unique personality.

Outdoors can be better for most of the flowers. Seeing it under the bright sun.

Each flower can bring such a unique feeling. Which makes it really nice to see each flower with its beautiful petals.

View them in a vase on a table or in other places. In addition, it’s good for keeping them in better use.

Every flower is different as ever through every texture.

Realize that each flower may fill around the garden and make it quite amazing.

Yellow flowers may feel as shiny as the sun. Making it more like the sun can brighten all other flowers as well.

Finding that perfect flower can be nicely in the right direction. A flower may still be perfect as…

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Live with Joy and Love

My Joyous Feature

Through these wonders of life, there may be something to cherish with such a gentle touch. Making it feel like a perfect sense. Something in that open mind is going to have that moment of peace. Someone’s visualizing something really amazing. Embracing it through that powerful feeling.

Life will follow through some that may be referred to as joy and love. Putting it through the wonders of mindfulness. In fact, life with a bit of joy and love can open up to so much. Make it look like the perfect kind of connection. Likewise, things can be added with a little loving hope. Treasure that feeling with joy and love.

Joy and love can be like, there’s this unique person between the two. Kind of sounds like a metaphor. Open it with some kindness. Letting that moment shine through like open arms.

Anything can bring joy and love together just…

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Life Has Wonders

My Joyous Feature

Life can be filled with so many things.

In this moment, life has options.

Find something better out there.

Embrace something that can new and different.

Hopefully life can be more like a moment of overtaking.

A moment in life can be more open in an honest manner.

Seeing it with open eyes.

Wonderful things can lead to something extraordinary.

One day, life can live through something that can provide memories.

Nourish life with a little kindness.

Define it in a different way.

Encourage this true self to let life be powerful.

Realize that life can bring wonderful things as well.

Seeing this moment in so many ways.

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Seeing the Light

My Joyous Feature

See that light, sparkle through. Looks like there’s something you should know about that brilliant light.

Embracing it with that powering feeling.

Embrace the light with that sense of seeing things more clearly.

Indeed, there are so many ways that light can shine. See those surroundings in those bright colors.

Notice something more about the light. It is as if the heavens were rising.

Great things about light may be more astounding than ever.

Thinking about the light in different ways.

Have the knowledge to use the light like anything else.

Easy to understand about the bright light.

Let the light be as bright as the moon.

Incredibly the light can be anywhere from the sun, candles, and everything else.

Getting to know about the light in your own unique way.

Hoping that light can be some…

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England XI For 2nd Test

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Jofra Archer will miss the second test due to a niggle, so ideas about the England XI for that match need rejigging. What follows is my effort.

THE XI IN BATTING ORDER

1. Dominic Sibley – his long innings at the start of the first match was crucial to England’s eventual success, and they will probably need more of the same from him.
2. Rory Burns – his dismissal in the first innings was reprehensible, but up to that point he had batted decently, and this is no time for desperate replacements.
3. Dan Lawrence – two failures in the first match, but with Crawley still not available it makes no sense to give this slot to yet another newcomer.
4. *Joe Root – the most indisputable of all selections at this time.
5. Ben Stokes – had a fine first match, and England will need him to produce something in this one as well.

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England XI For 2nd Test

aspiblog

Jofra Archer will miss the second test due to a niggle, so ideas about the England XI for that match need rejigging. What follows is my effort.

THE XI IN BATTING ORDER

1. Dominic Sibley – his long innings at the start of the first match was crucial to England’s eventual success, and they will probably need more of the same from him.
2. Rory Burns – his dismissal in the first innings was reprehensible, but up to that point he had batted decently, and this is no time for desperate replacements.
3. Dan Lawrence – two failures in the first match, but with Crawley still not available it makes no sense to give this slot to yet another newcomer.
4. *Joe Root – the most indisputable of all selections at this time.
5. Ben Stokes – had a fine first match, and England will need him to produce something in this one as well.

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Statement from Dr. Tchajkova

Dignity Denied

Good morning.

Thank you for inviting me as a guest speaker.

When I started my project five years ago as a resident doctor in training, I didn’t envision how pertinent it would become to the present MAID discussion. I was inspired by a friend I met in medical school who had a spinal cord injury. When I asked him about his life, he invited me to go out in a wheelchair with him in Vancouver. It was eye-opening to experience this and talk to him, and I realized we aren’t really taught the real patient perspective in medical training.

This further inspired me to individually interview 23 people from different walks of life who had had a spinal cord injury.

I discovered that most of the people I interviewed told me no one had ever really asked them in this amount of detail the dramatic changes they underwent psychologically, and…

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Statement from Kristine Cowley

Dignity Denied

Hello. I sustained a SCI in 1987 at the age of 20. After my injury I received three months in-hospital rehabilitation where I learned how to navigate the world as a person with tetraplegia, including how to manage all the altered physical functioning that comes with it. I was considered a model patient, returning to university while still in hospital. I had the support of dozens of friends and family, and still do today. I left hospital, continued University, and began training to compete in WC track. This then led to three medals and 2 world records in the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics. I returned to Winnipeg, got married and changed my name from Harder to Cowley, and took up my PhD studies, attaining a doctorate in 1998. I became a mother of twins in 1999 with a third child in 2001. I have travelled professionally and with my family throughout…

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Statement from Dr. Karen Ethans

Dignity Denied

Good morning. As a rehabilitation specialist physician,I treat people with severe disabilities. I follow people with spinal cord injury from acute care, through rehabilitation, transition to the community, and life long follow up. I prevent complications and manage symptoms to help improve quality of life of my patients. My recommendations I am making are based on my research and clinical experience.

Particularly concerning inBill C-7is the removal of the criterion of the person being expected to die naturally in the reasonable foreseeable future, which means that anyone with a significant disability may request MAID, and the waiting period is 90 days. While I respect everyone having autonomy once able to make an informed, independent choice for their care, I do NOT believe that people whohave a new, severe, potentially permanent neurologic disability such as spinal cord injury will have the ability to make this informed choice until they have had…

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Statement from Spring Hawes

Dignity Denied

I became disabled 15 years ago, through a spinal cord injury. And while paralysis and its complications are by no means easy, the challenges presented by society are far more damaging and difficult to deal with. Every day, I am forced to re-assert my autonomy, my competence, and my humanity. I experience aggressions on the micro level daily, when it is assumed I can’t speak for myself, or that the clothes I’ve chosen are ‘inconvenient’, or when it is assumed that I will joyfully run down your child in my wheelchair. I have experienced them on a macro level, when health concerns were not taken seriously and allowed to become life-threatening, or when my friends felt sorry for the husband who was leaving me because I was a burden.  

I am rebellious and stubborn; I have a supportive family; I have access to money; I am white. These things give…

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