Lateral Kindness? in Current Events

Good luck with your bread. Said Andy while he was eating the toppings off his pizza. Avoiding the crust because he’s on a keto diet. Look at us! I said. Two grown ass men afraid of toast!.

Bev came over to finish our show. I ordered us some food. She just had a birthday. I cheated on my diet and ate bread. It was even deep-fried in engine lubricant (canola). I got a plant-based chicken sandwich. It didn’t hurt my stomach as bad as I thought it would. I still can’t believe that I used to think it was bloating. I also had a glass of wine which I feel deeply guilty about. I feel like I cheated on a test and got caught.

Andy and I had our third group program yesterday. All of our participants made it. We didn’t have Diego so it was just the two of us. It was very challenging. We have the one kid that makes this very challenging. We took them to the Manitoba Museum. They weren’t as big of a menace as we thought they would be. They were still a menace. It was embarrassing when we went to the planetarium show. That one kid has become the ring leader and as soon as the lights went out, they ran off.

I was a little disappointed on Friday. It was payday and I was looking forward to it because it was my first full check. This job pays $5 more than what my last one was. The government made $5 more an hour from me. It wasn’t even a $200 difference. I might as well be slinging burgers again. That is not hyperbole. Those checks are not much different. It blows my mind that some people’s solution to this is to increase our wage. People who believe that are unintelligent. They have poor critical thinking skills. They’re probably fat, vaxxed, and a cluster B. They are clearly irresponsible and do things that go against their best interests. Wealth isn’t going to come from how much you make but how much you can keep. I don’t use this word but I am going to use this word. Those people are Libtarded.

It’s just my program that works on the weekend. Well, we have a women’s shelter that is 24/7 but my program does our group activities on Saturdays. Andy and I had the whole office to ourselves yesterday before our kiddos showed up. I wanted to pick his brain about this modern critical gender theory. He agrees that it comes from a colonial framework. Our traditions and beliefs originate outside of those western frameworks. From a different cultural and spiritual foundation. Accepting these new-age colonial beliefs alters our own meanings and significance. Our people are still healing from residential schools. Our elders and knowledge keepers are divided on this issue but we all practice lateral kindness and honor the diverse ways in which people understand the world. Every ceremony that we have, our elders always say that we don’t know where our ways fit in this modern world. Is our teachings contemporary? My friend Bruce, some elders let her participate in ceremonies wearing pants. A few do not. They demand she wear a skirt as it is tradition for women to wear a skirt that touches Mother Earth. Women are sacred and it is the job of men to protect them. This two-spirited term was hijacked by the left and appropriated. We selected our own term to described ourselves instead of accepting a western label as we have our own understandings. Two-spirited was just our term for LGBT. It used to be used to describe somebody with masculine and feminine energy. Masculine and feminine energy are two interdependent forces that create balance. Force and motion. Physical and non-physical. Electricity and magnetism. We have an elder joining our program soon. I’ll pick his brain about this too. Where does all this fit in? We are trying to uncolonize our minds while also practicing lateral kindness. The organization is putting me through a course that is going to brainwash me to speak leftism. I’ll participate but not belong as I do with everything else.

I don’t know why this topic is weighing so heavily on me all of a sudden. I said I would explore it with an open mind and I guess I am trying to open my mind before I dig in, so to speak.

That young woman that I have beef with at work asked for my help on Thursday. It was such an innocent little moment. She was building hampers for her participants but didn’t know what to put in them We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving! What is my hamper missing!? A lot of people in my organization don’t celebrate Western holidays. We have 6 additional stat days to honor our own holidays, actually. We still practice lateral kindness and honor the holidays of our treaty partners. Whatever lateral kindness even means. I didn’t go through the reeducation course yet.

Speaking of Thanksgiving, my mother usually hosts it but postponed it because my grandmother was possessed by con-19. We are aiming to do it next weekend. Ange asked me if I wanted to join her family this Monday. This is random. This is out of the blue. I’m not used to hanging out with her one-on-one. Just in our group. I accepted her invitation, of course. We’ve only been friends since high school. I haven’t seen her family in over 20 years. It will be fun.

Anyway, I have just enough time for the gym if I leave now. I have a grocery order coming around 9.

Speaking of orders… When I look at my wishlist on Amazon, I have everything I want. In general, I have everything I want. This is a weird space… well, I don’t have time to edit this entry. I’m raw dogging it.