{"id":8117,"date":"2011-06-25T06:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2011-06-25T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T14:59:59","slug":"june-25th-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/june-25th-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"june 25th ~ 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yay! I could not be more thrilled to have Canadian writer Mary-Jo Dionne<\/a> as my very first weekend guest of the summer. The list of reasons to be jealous of her is much too long, so I’ll just give you the highlights: She’s an amazing writer {funny, thoughtful and insanely smart… the next Tina Fey, really}<\/em>, she started a charity to protect the rights of doggies everywhere called The Fleas Knees<\/em><\/a>, which she pours her heart and soul into {and in true Mary-Jo fashion, instead of a normal launch party for the line of t-shirts created to raise funds, she kicked the whole thing off at the Playboy Mansion?!?} <\/em>Wait, there’s more! She has done stand-up comedy, she has her own radio show, she is a triathlete, she’s pretty… ok, you get the idea! Anyway, just when I thought she couldn’t be any more thoughtful or inspiring, she writes this:<\/p>\n

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I’m jealous of my city…<\/em><\/p>\n

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I believe it was writer Marianne Williamson who said, \u201cIt\u2019s not to our discredit we have fallen. It\u2019s to our credit we have fallen, \u2026 and gotten back up.\u201d Whether I\u2019m right or not about the author of that sentiment, this insight was also delivered by Lionel, the butler in the film <\/em>Maid in Manhattan to Jennifer Lopez\u2019s humiliated character, after she was exposed as \u2013 gasp \u2013 a chamber maid and not the millionaire she\u2019d pretended to be. \u201cWhat we do, Miss Ventura, is not what defines us,\u201d Lionel said. \u201cWhat defines us is how well we rise after falling.\u201d From Greek mythology to Valerie Bertinelli\u2019s career, nothing\u2019s more inspiring than a resurrection.
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On June 15th<\/sup>, my city \u2013\u00a0consistently depicted in glossy marketing materials as the Mecca for perfect-living \u2013 underwent a massive punch in the gut. In the wake of a disappointing Stanley Cup finish (for Vancouver, anyway), what started as a few chest-thumping twits snowballed into multiple chest-thumping twits and soon my streets were thick with flipped-cars, smashed store fronts, and pepper spray. As rioters put themselves \u2013 and others \u2013 in precarious situations, not the least of which included setting cop cars on fire, it was the prime location for a Darwin Awards convention.
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But the following morning, something happened. Figuratively and literally, the city woke up. Hung-over not from alcohol \u2013\u00a0okay, there was that too, however allow me this metaphor \u2013 but from a reality check. <\/em>Our city \u2013 consistently voted the #1 place in the world to live \u2013 could get ugly?! Like the prom queen who gets a zit, so too did we have to face a sizeable blemish.
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What emerged was a new brand of expression. This wasn\u2019t some multi-million dollar advertising campaign. No, this sprouted organically. As if decades of unexpressed loyalty had been sleeping in the soil and under the pounding of looters\u2019 feet was finally ready to blossom. The air was thick not with pepper spray, but a renewed sense of civic commitment \u2013 indicated on murals that covered shattered windows. Whether art is \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d is not relevant \u2013 so long as it tells the truth. And as far as I\u2019m concerned, this new Vancouver \u2013 Vancouver 2.0 \u2013 tells the truth. It\u2019s not about the pages of a shiny come-visit-us brochure. It\u2019s about what happened on the night we fell. When our noses were pressed into the ground, and when the kicks just kept on coming, we made the decision to rise again.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thanks Mary-Jo… so inspiring, yet again! xo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yay! I could not be more thrilled to have Canadian writer Mary-Jo Dionne as my very first weekend guest of the summer. The list of reasons to be jealous of her is much too long, so I’ll just give you the highlights: She’s an amazing writer {funny, thoughtful and insanely smart… the next Tina Fey, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}