Ottawa Remebrance Day

Salut, Scoop here with an Ottawa update. It is hard to believe I have only been here a week but with moving, unpacking, setting up my place and starting work it feels like a month. It is good to be busy as it is a challenge both physically and emotionally but I persevere! I have made considerable progress and now it is important to take the time and reflect on this, such a significant day. Remembrance Day sure makes you appreciate what we have and ponder how it could have been had the allies fallen in either World War. I walked down and back to the service. It was pretty cold with the wind chill. I like to take it in personally rather participate with my organization as everything work related seems to take on a more of a self importance flavour. This is a day for me to think about how I have had the great fortune to live in freedom. Rather than die fighting, my generation has has the opportunity to live beyond our teens and early 20s, unlike those who sacrificed their lives and health. My life has not turned out as I had expected but it all becomes so moot when you take into account the big picture on such an occasion. Do I believe in war? Depends on the war. Enough said on this day dedicated those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

On a political level it should be an interesting next year with Barrack Obama at the US helm as his ideologies and policies differ significantly from the Bush administration and many moderate democrats. Personally I think he was the best choice though the expectations on him are surreal. I have heard many say that many people of colour will expect too much of him but I feel that he has already met their biggest expectation, winning the election and thereby taking by storm the highest office in the US and arguably in the world. It is the mass media and their expectations and hidden agendas that I suggest will be his greatest challenge. Though for now they are still in love with him and like any relationship of extremes great drama is always prevalent. Scoop out.