Worthy Resolutions For Chinese New Year January 20
Messed up your New Year’s Resolutions all ready? Not to worry, Chinese New Year is coming up in February. Think of it as your second chance; the first one was just a dress rehearsal where you got to try them on for size and throw out the ones that didn’t fit.
A couple of weeks ago, Now Magazine - Toronto’s free arts and culture weekly paper - featured some worthy resolutions from cool Toronto residents, and some of these are worth stealing. Best part is I’m sure they won’t mind if you do.
For example try novelist Susan Swan’s resolution on for size. This year Susan resolves to protest when it counts, and reminds us that as citizens we wield more influence than just our consumer power of boycotting brands.
“I’m an activist, not just a novelist, because activism works….In my lifetime, I’ve seen extraordinary political change. Feminism improved the quality of women’s lives irrevocably. When I started writing, all Canadian books were sold at the back of the store in a section labelled Canadiana, which suggested they were manuals for stripping pine furniture. Popular foreign books were sold at the front in the bestseller section, and foreign publishers expected writers like me to sell them the Canadian rights to a novel and forgo a Canadian edition of my work.”
Kind of makes the typical “I will to lose those last 10 lbs” resolution sound kind of small.
Susan’s cause is Community AIR, devoted to restoring the Toronto Island Airport lands to park, recreation and cultural use.
Read Susan Swan’s resolution in Now Magazine. The issue also features worthy resolutions from Sarah Harmer and John Mighton