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Be kind to one another

I know this post is meant for kids but it made me think of something else.

Someone brought to my attention that others are making comments about her weight. Now this was a beautiful and fit person but yet the comments were affecting her in a negative way and she was really bothered by them.

I started to pay more attention to the comments people made towards me. Now i never really paid attention to them before as my confidence does not come from others' opinions of me. I noticed that people were making comments all the time. Comments like 'you are bigger then before', 'are you not going to the gym anymore?', 'you are less fat/more fat then last contract', 'she was big like you' I even got 'you are the biggest I have seen you' etc.

When I asked some female friends if people ever make comments about their appearance one of them said 'my paisanos tell me I am fat every day'.

People, this is not okay.

We don't comment on one's religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity etc. yet people make comments like this? It is not okay to make comments about someone's body regardless of their shape, size, weight, height, appearance etc.

Personally I am confident and I don't care what others think BUT there are many people who really suffer when comments like these are made.

The point I am trying to make is

YOUR

WORDS

MATTER

Be kind to one another.

Old Town Promenade Walk

May must be the most beautiful month in Wroclaw. It is so green and beautiful and full of life. I decided to take a stroll in the Old Town Promenade, 6 hours and 10km later I was re-energized and fascinated. Of course I stop a lot to take it all in, take photos and sit and have a cold one and watch people go by.

My starting point

The moat around the Old City

National Museum

Ostrow Tumski

Love Locks

Wroclaw has an interesting story with these Krasnale (Dwarfs).  There are 349 different ones all over the city honouring different occasions, trades etc.  You can get a map in any of the tourists spots and see how many you can find. Sometimes they are really obvious and sometimes they are tricky to find. You can find more info on these charming creatures here:  Krasnale.pl

My beloved Krasnale or dwarfs

Polish Women

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When I was young I used to come to Poland every summer or every other summer. When I started working on ships it got increasingly harder to do so with limited time off. Now as an adult I have been coming here for the last three years. I absolutely love how this city has grown and changed. Wroclaw is a perfect marriage of old and new. It still has all this history but it's cosmopolitan at the same time. New restaurants, bars with previously unknown cuisines are popping up in old, restored buildings. I hear new languages and see new nationalities choosing Wroclaw as a home, I love it.  Being here gives me so much peace and fuels my curiosity.  I spend hours just wondering the city and absorbing all her glory and taking photos of the old buildings and cobblestone streets.

I wanted to share some of these photos with you....

my old elementary school

Sculptures coming out of the sidewalk, on my way to the main square

Main square (Rynek) and surrounding areas

Uniwersytet Wroclawski - University of Wroclaw

And my favourite bar in the whole wide world:  Dom Whisky & Cocktail Bar Max

Wroclaw, Poland

Ahhhhh....this is the sigh of relief and relaxation that escapes my lips when I land in my birth town of Wroclaw, Poland.

I pinched this beautiful video from the Insta of PolskaZachwyca. I just had to share it with all of y'all.

Some of my photos to come soon.

I do not own the rights to this music or video

16 People Who Are Embracing Their Flaws In The Most Beautiful Way

What a refreshing and beautiful article!

We should all love our bodies the way that they are. They allow us to do magical things every day and experience this beautiful planet.

After all, we are all created in the image of the head honcho upstairs.

16 People Who Are Embracing Their Flaws In The Most Beautiful Way

This city.....

This city....it's just so full of life and colour and expression.  Busy and bustling with opportunity, tolerance and acceptance.

I am still in shock what happened here earlier this week. These things are not supposed to happen here. I have always felt so safe here, it is after all my home even if I am not here all the time. The van incident made my head spin for several days, took a lot of meditating to bring myself back down. The age old question of 'What is the world coming to?' kept creeping up.

But I can tell  you that I am very proud of how we as a community and as a country responded to the incident. It shows that even in our darkest hour we still standby our values of compassion and kindness which simply amazed me.

Oh Canada!