i don't want to take the excitement away from our exhibit but there are days when i look at our web statistics and see visitors from China, Bulgaria, Indonesia, UK, Nebraska, Nunavut, India, Poland.... and I wonder what viewing this site means to you.

Are you also engaged in social justice movements, housing, poverty, and just wondering what is happening here in Canada?

I do wish I could say that we had created some sort of ideal world and that tonight I hadn't again heard a warning for severe cold weather. And that i had not read that until we really shift the social inequities that plague all of our cultures nothing will change. In a recent listserv message the talk was of redistribution of wealth, resources, and power in order to incur meaningful shifts in equity. And that we need to have Canadians talking about it.

So the exhibit is one way to have people talking about what is happening, what happens to people who live their lives in public spaces. I'll let you all know what happens.

One of my goals is to write about a curriculum of hope and the possibility of that for those of us engaged in this work of social justice in the urban environment... so stay tuned for a paragraph or two to be emerging on that.