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One of the exciting ideas in our initial support networks project that looked at how people with disabilities make friends and allies and how they and their networks might provide leadership for their communities and supports was the idea that "what if we had more friends than we
needed? what if we had 101 friends - an abundance of friends?" For our agency, this clarified our organization's ongoing interest in partnerships, networks, communities and alliances - we're not competing with anyone and our goal of an inclusive world can only be furthered by making more friends. We've been lucky enough to travel most of the province doing workshops and meet a lot of people, but here our some of our friends, neighbours and allies.
The e-newsletter and blog of our Support Networks project is
here.
That hospitality is so much attached to food and eating together was one of our earliest lessons in community. Put a pizza on the table and everything changes for the better. In our neighbourhood we love the Chilli Pepper Restaurant (tell Paul or Sarah that you know us) and Roman's Ristorante (tell Haskel that Spectrum sent you) and we take special friends to
Burgoo, which specialises in comfort food from all over the world and never fails to satisify.