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Love The Life Your Living For You
I am a live and let live kind of person. I believe in everyone living a life that is true to themselves (whatever that may look like) as long as it is without malice to others. So what would happen if I sat down with someone that disapproves of my life choices? The life choices that gave me what I hold dearer than anything else in existence; my children. To be clear he does not disapprove of my children, but the manor of how they began.
It is never an easy conversation to have with people and is most often met with one of three things; bewilderment, curiosity or reverence. I believe it to be unfathomable to some, and that is exactly who I sought out to have a conversation with. The topic up for discussion? My personal choice to use a donor to have my children. While this can often be an effective means for many couples to conceive children, that was not the case with me. I am a single woman and made this choice by myself for myself. The best decision I have made to date, and I have only looked back in wonderment.
We met on a Tuesday afternoon. The day carried with it uncomfortable beginnings as I do not think that either of us were exactly looking forward to what lie ahead. I started,
“It is great to see you. Thanks for meeting up for a visit. I was wondering if we could have an open conversation about the choices I made in having my children? I would love to hear your thoughts.”
“I worry for you” was his first response.
“Worry? What do you worry about?” I responded.
So far so good. I sat there listening patient and engaged. I was open to his feelings and concerns about my situation, my future, and what? – my love life. It was made quite clear to me that I may have messed up my fate, and have now lost the opportunity to meet my ‘soul mate’. This seemed a little bit to storybook for me so I had to dig a little deeper.
Interrupting I asked, “tempted my fate?”
It took a couple of go arounds but it became clear that his biggest concern was that I have overlooked fate as an option and will never know the traditional path of love and family. There’s no first comes love, then comes marriage, etc.. We all know how that one ends. It was oddly comforting to know that my friend does not disapprove of my choices but that he in fact is sad about the idea that I may miss out on falling in love and some of life’s important milestones. Little does he know that I am capable of greater love now than I ever was before.
I end this blog with a few words to my friend.
Thank you. Thank you for meeting with me and sharing openly and honestly. Thank you for caring enough about me to have concern for my ‘happiness’. I will tell you this, for the first time in my life I listened to and followed my heart. Having children was far to important of a decision to have it riding on chance. The chance of maybe meeting the right person someday very soon. I do not have fear of living outside of a traditional existence. I love my life, and hope that you love the life your living for you too.
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be here, be now
Would you sit down for dinner somewhere if they asked you not to use your phone or would you turn back around and leave? Would you agree and then ignore the request when you think no one is looking?
I asked this of patrons at a restaurant. The restaurant will remain unnamed, but the details will be shared. It was a fairly normal Tuesday night with about 60% occupancy. I sat close by to observe interactions of people with both their cell phones, and the makeshift sign on the table.
Things went pretty well. I noticed a few uncomfortable smiles with the idea, but overall an overwhelming response to the idea. It was very nice to see people interacting, talking and laughing with each other, but I would like to believe that, that happens most of the time anyway
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The Yes Men Need an Information Designer
The film Yes Men is a great film and I highly recommend the watch. I laughed, I fumed with anger, and yes I even cried... a little. It is within the films creators and stars that you find a level of moxie that most of us will never experience ourselves. Their focus and determination to gain attention for mistreatments and injustices in the world of big business was inspiring. As an information designer I wonder about the intended messages and the messages that were actually received. Did they have a true understanding of their audience? Did they take the opportunities to effectively educate and inform about the issues at hand? I will try to address these questions as we take a closer look from the information designers prerogative.
The Yes Men hold great power in their ideas and perhaps need to focus their designs to achieve greater success in their messaging in order to bring light to some major violations and injustices. Based on the scenes within the fill, I do believe that most of their messages were not received as they had intended. Many of the scenarios that they found themselves in produced unforeseen praise of their ideas, no matter how ridiculous they made them. This can be seen in the human life saving pod farce and the golden skeleton ideas. Could this be attributed to a lack of understanding of their audience? This is perhaps where the Yes Men fall short on their delivery.
The Yes Men took every opportunity to educate and inform people about the issues at hand. It is the effectiveness that was lacking. Good information design is to help users be well-informed and develop a deeper understanding of the world. The men did have strong resolve in their endeavours and followed through with educating themselves and through the film us as well. They did this by investigating some hearsay that arose. Using the example of the false hope given to the people still suffering after the pesticide plant disaster in India. The fact that they flew to india to determine if they had in fact caused such pain to the people shows true spirit of an information designer by seeking the facts. It is important to seek out what is true and to never knowingly cause hindrance or harm.
As an information designer, it is engrained within us to educate, inform and create awareness to make thing better. The Yes Men have many of the qualities held within information design, while they do not hold the specific talents that myself or my colleagues do. I see this as both a good and a bad thing because the Yes Men have important messages to relay, but at this time no information designers to help them achieve the full potential of their goals.
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An Underprivileged Privileged
I have many, many privileges in my life. This is so, even with being considered somewhat underprivileged as a child. I make sure to be thankful everyday for the privileges that have been afforded to me, and put additional efforts into the possible blind spots within my own awareness.
Privileges afforded to me:
I am a born Canadian and all that that entails
I am white
I am a home owner (not sure if that is a privilege)
I am strong of spirit and mind - not easily swayed or ‘beat down’
I am educated
I am safe in my home environment
I am physically and mentally able to support myself and my family
I have had opportunities to travel and experience other cultures
I am able to live my life on my terms - have my children on my terms
Privileged blind spots:
The traditional nuclear family
The uber privileged - The wealthy - I cannot even fathom what it would have been like to be raised in a world of extreme privilege
Religious reasonings
People living with physical abuses in their lives - I am aware this happens, but I myself have never been in this type of situation
Victim mentalities - I have overcome my abuses and forget that sometimes other people cannot rationalize, move forward or find closure within their own abuses
The above lists a few of my privileges and blind spots. This is not a complete list and I am aware that there are additions to be made.
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WAIT WAIT Don’t Pee Yet!
Time spent at the Calgary zoo is always a good time until it’s time to take my two year old to the bathroom. The zoo offers multiple family washrooms which is great in theory until you try to get in the door.
Picture it — alone with your toddler and baby, in a double stroller, reaching with your arm to open the door while balancing on one leg to keep it propped open while pushing the stroller through. Repeat upon exit.
The goal is to create ease for family washroom users. It is hard enough trying to maneuver two kids and an extra long stroller through life – you shouldn’t have to struggle with the bathroom door.
I took 20 minutes of time to assist in just that. I was not able to add the technology needed to install a self open button so, I instead stood just outside the door and opened it when anyone hit the open door sign.
It was observed that almost all users (save 1) used the ‘open door’ option. It would drastically improve accessibility if all doors were equipped with this function.
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Project Prep 7 - graphical representation ideas
I have chosen different colour circles to represent lightning strikes.
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9 months Pregnant and Joining a Dating Site
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