THANKS for thinking of supporting me!

70 years ago, my Mom arrived in Canada as a refugee -- only they called it "displaced person" back then, and D.P. was flung in their faces as an insult, a negating -- but they had been sponsored to come by a Canadian, and they worked hard to pay back the debt of travel and to build lives for themselves, eventually their families, including me.

I haven't had to flee but there are still others who are fleeing to come here. I have not forgotten and this small token is something I can do to remind myself and play a small supporting role in the lives of those others.

As I have done before, I will be matching every dollar given up to the goal that I have set, so please... beggar me if you can! I'd be delighted to max out. But only give what you can. It's not quite "price of fish, price of flour going up, up, almost by the hour", but I acknowledge that tyranny is affecting our bank accounts, if not yet our personal safety.

But if you can, please help me make #ride25 the best one ever. And thanks to Journey Home Community for continuing to be a trustworthy set of neighbours to help our new neighbours find their feet here.

cheers ... ank

written from the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, q̓ic̓əy̓, and səlilwətaɬ peoples: I honour their guardianship, their elders past, present and future, and I am thankful for the safe space my family and I have found here.