Happy Canada Day!

Ok it's a little late on Canada Day for this, but better late then never. Other than working out, I've been relaxing and reading as much as possible.

Over at the BlogsCanada E-Group, where I'm a regular contributor, the site owner Jim Elve asked people to make a positive comment about Canada, seeing as we've been doing some fairly intense political article writing in the E-Group over the past few weeks. Click here to read the series of comments. I've also included my comment about Canada below:

For me, ever since I was little, multiculturalism has always been something that drew me in. I love difference: the initial strangeness of it. The revelation of its many layered complexity, followed by the sometimes surprising and reflective nature of shared similarty, but a similarity that is always refracted in a slightly or vastly different hue of ideas and experiences. Even the later occasional oneness of being at ease with difference that is no longer alien, but a time worn part of my environment, perhaps even of my identity, is a thrill.

I always find it funny when people worry over Canadian identity, because they have such a hard time pinning down exactly what it is. How do you fix a moving kaleidoscope? Why would you want to?

Canada is a paradox: A tiny big country, of polite peaceful ruffians, from no fixed address, who are always at home in a sea of change.

For me, there's little better than that.