I was given a placard, which read, “Boycott BC Hydro” This was the company that governed the Vancouver transit lines at the time. I had read nothing about the reasons behind the bus fare hike and had no idea what “boycott” meant.
This story is an embarrassing piece of personal history. I was in junior high school when they decided to raise the bus fares. One of the students was a real activist and she organized a rally to protest.
A friend who used a wheelchair surprised me when she told me all of the things she had accomplished that summer; I hadn’t done half of the things she had done! She told me that one of her favourite songs was: "Anything you can do, I can do better."
When my son was in high school, he had left a pair of shoes in the front hall—again. As I bent down to pick them up, I noticed how big they were. I remembered how tiny his shoes had been just a short while ago. I realized he and his feet were now the size of an adult and it wouldn’t be long before I would be wishing his shoes were still in the hallway.
Testing…testing… :)