Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦

Clinical Social Worker & Psychotherapist; Dad, believer, non-speciesist, vegetarian, committed to the belief that we can be more kind to one another each day...

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

This is no longer harmless rhetoric! And it is not ‘somebody else’s problem’ … we’ve been here before!
Trump tests Republican Party willingness to follow him into fascism https://t.co/8576hJyW7m via @YouTube

[County of Wellington @wellingtncounty]

If you or someone you know is experiencing homelessness, please contact the following: Adults (25 years+) or Family call Stepping Stone at 226.821.3345 or Youth (16 to 24 years) call Wyndham House at 519.837.3892

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For the third time this summer, the emergency department at Louise Marshall Hospital in Mount Forest will temporarily close this weekend due to 'a staffing shortage.' The closure will take place between Saturday at 5am and Sunday at 7am. https://t.co/0Eh1kAKz69

[Centrwellington @CentrWellington]

When you see a vehicle with a green flashing light - please pull over! It's a volunteer firefighter responding to a call. By pulling over, you allow the firefighter to get to the station quicker so that they can help someone in need.

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

Canada’s first electric training aircraft takes flight in Breslau… Very Cool! https://t.co/sRvOBtj5T2

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Mandatory Policy for children with disabilities in the E​.​R - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/rG75phfxtr via @CdnChange

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RISE (Katy Perry Cover) by SUPERFRUIT, Mary Lambert, Brian Justin Crum, ... https://t.co/eEY1NCrO8Q via @YouTube
In memory of the June 16 Pulse massacre in Orlando, and for all of those who do not feel they belong…

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

@mhdksafa I live in Canada and was so moved by Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill we Climb,” recited during Biden’s inauguration. I am sick at the thought that it has so disheartened in a system that would ban such an inspiring, honest call to empowerment and unity- we ALL need to do better!

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

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Man helps save fawn struggling after losing its mother. I love his statement, “…all life matters.”

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines.

The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines.

There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires.

On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor.

Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us.

I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.

There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars.

So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections.

Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.
Authenticity is.

@ FeministNews

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

How is sound of people eating so annoying but animals eating so cute?

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

@donlemon I am so shocked and sorry to read this! I am Canadian and have been listening to and watching you for years. May you and your husband find what you need from friends and family through these difficult times.

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

So thankful for places like the https://t.co/HQm4JnTKgj!

[The Dodo @dodo]

Mama cow won’t stop mooing when she reunites with her lost baby 😭 @TheGentleBarn

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

Loving the uninhibited happiness in the moment! Connection in action! 💕🐾💕

[B&S @_B___S]

This is what greets you when you get to heaven...

[Sidney G. Bater 🇨🇦 @SidneyBater]

Happy Earth day!

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Indigenous rainbow prophecy says that:

“There will come a day when people of all races, colors, and creeds will put aside their differences. They will come together in love, joining hands in unification, to heal the Earth and all her children. They will move over the Earth like a great Whirling Rainbow, bringing peace, understanding and healing everywhere they go.”

Perhaps this is why some fear the power of the rainbow. 🌈

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

This man is a leader.