Hope Blooms
Canada has a thing called Statutory Holidays or Stats as they are commonly referred. It seems funny just saying that. A mandatory rest time. Seems a little counterproductive. I don`t agree that we should be given a work day off to commemorate Remembrance Day if it falls on a weekend. I think Remembrance Day shouldn`t be trivialized by making it just another Stat. However, one of the worst things about a Stat is finding something to watch on early morning television. All I could find this morning was a re-run of Dragon`s Den. I can`t believe my good fortune. There was a group of children on from Hope Blooms out of Halifax. These particular pre-teens were identified as at risk kids. There story is nothing more than extraordinary. Their motto is when you change the way you look a things; the things you look at change. I know most adults spend a lifetime trying to learn this lesson and these kid...