TEDxToronto 2010 Speaker - Drew Dudley - Teaser Produced by The Biz Media

"To Whom It May Concern" by The Travel Bugs

Hi friends, a little wet out there today.

TEDxToronto - Drew Dudley "Leading with Lollipops"

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?”

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

“Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I’d rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn’t enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: “How amazing am I ?! “
While I don’t believe in putting women down for being skinny, I also don’t believe in putting women down if they are not. I truly wish someday society would stop making a woman’s worth of love and beauty based on their clothing size

March Break 2012

We stayed at a lovely B & B.

With lovely glass - here's just a couple of our favorites.

I discovered this was NOT the way out and had to back the car all the way back through the alley.

And, We explored the City of Fredericton.

Crock Pot Pulled Pork

GeoFreakz - GeoTrails

While planning for our Geocaching Event/Challenge to be held in conjunction with our Community Days in August, I have had a chance to chat with some interesting people. Our Community Days Committee picks a theme each year and this year’s is ‘Comics’. I was doing research on comic characters for cache names, oh oh I let that secret out of the bag on that one, I came across GeoFreakz. So being the shy person that I am, I reached out.

Yesterday we received the package with a personally written note some of which was:
“Hi  – Thanks for your interest in Geofreakz & the Parks Canada Geotrails Program. Inclosed are 2 posters outlining our parks program. If you can post these at your local organization that would be wonderful.”  For  US or CANADA residents please click on the Title to be linked to parks in your area.

POSTER:

WE WANT YOU AT

GEO FREAKZ GEOTRAILS

MAY 19 – OCTOBER 13, 2012-04-05

YOUR MISSION:

Head to the Visitor Center to rent

Your free Magellan Explorist GC

And begin your quest for

GEOFREAKZ CACHES!

Join the quest

www.geofreakz.com

So, I am here to share the information with you. We have been able to add a few GeoFreakz Trackables to that which we have already gathered for our event – so stay tuned. We are planning an evening of ‘get to know what Geocaching is’ for families and kids, of our approximately 2100 population, with some caches for practice and a Challenge for the Geocachers out there. We continue to gather prizes and hope you will come and play with us in August.