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Take a quantum leap into your heart The future is not in the hands of chance, but in your hands.You should not wait for it, but conquer it. Last week I watched videos of Belgian-born Anneke Lucas telling how she was sold by her mother at the age of six into an international pedophile network…
As Christians, we have learned that the love of neighbour taught in the Bible is nothing else than infinite patience and tolerant empathy. Critics are silenced by saying that no one has the right to blast their own ill feelings on others. But real influence often requires tough words and radical action. In history there…
Pohjoismaissa kansalaisten hyvinvointipalvelut muodostavat suuren osan maiden kansantulosta. Aikaisemmin palveluiden järjestäminen oli täysin julkisen sektorin vastuulla. Palveluiden tuotto oli valvottua ja työntekijöillä oli minimivaatimukset osaamisen ja kielitaidon suhteen. Perinteisesti julkisen sektorin järjestämiä palveluita ei ole pidetty varsinaisena liiketoimintana, sillä siinähän vain ”kierrätetään kansalaisten maksamia veroja”. Yritykset toitottavat suureen ääneen oman toimintansa tuottaman lisäarvon hyödystä yhteiskunnalle,…
Running a one-person household as if you were looking after a large family places certain demands on housing design. However, accessible environmental design comes only after attitudes have been changed. Personally, I was not even aware that I could run my one-person household as if I had a large family until things had matured to…
Don’t resist the new energies that are coming your way. I read an article last week about a person’s month-long experiment in trying to limit his spending so that he only spent a euro per meal on food. The article talked about the same things I wrote about some time ago when I said that…
When I wrote my previous text Accessibility Is Not a Special Need I was thinking from a European point of view, i.e. a Western perspective. I wrote that we have largely broken free from the shackles of the past and our lives today are not as focused on cherishing family traditions, reputation and honour as…
In the early 1980s, I first read Kalle Könkkölä’s (1950-2018, human rights activist with a severe mobility disability) thoughts that even a severely disabled person is not disabled, if the environment in which he lives is constructed in such a way that the physical limitations imposed by his disability do not impede his activities in…
Faith isn’t about asking God to stop the storm.Faith is trusting God to help you through the storm. Be your own Savior In early childhood, before our family broke up, when my mother was trying her best to keep the house up and tidy, I asked myself why she was always so angry when she…
A pigeon just over a month old eating nut residues My landlord and I came to an agreement that the pigeons would stay on my balcony until their chicks (squabs) have grown up and can follow their parents to a more natural landscape. I expected things to advance without drama, but the situation has been…
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