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Day Eight. The same poet. At the edge of Europe, above the river that flows to the ocean. Lisbon, and the People Who Made It Home I came to Lisbon twice, in the autumn of 2022 and again in the…
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World Social Work Day 2026: Harambee: Pulling Together Across a Divided World
A message to my students and social workers everywhere Today is World Social Work Day. I am writing from Kamloops, British Columbia, on the unceded territory of the Secwépemc people, with a full heart and a deep sense of gratitude.…
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He Was Already There. A Pilgrimage to Paris, France. Shevchenko, March 15 Story
Day Seven. The same poet. The city that gave him a square. The Long Way to Paris I did not plan Paris. Paris arrived the way certain gifts arrive, sideways, through the logic of a schedule that was already full,…
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He Was Already There. A Pilgrimage to Prague, Czech Republic. Shevchenko, March 14 Story
Day Six. The same poet. The city that printed his words when his empire banned them. The 6 A.M. Train There is a particular discipline to the early morning train. Not the romantic kind of early, not the pre-dawn departure…
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He Was Already There. A Pilgrimage to Zagreb, Croatia. Shevchenko, March 13 Story
Day Five. The same poet. The golden hour found him first. The Night Train from Split There is a particular quality to arriving somewhere by night train that no other form of travel replicates. You board in one world, surrender…
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He Was Already There. A Pilgrimage to Bratislava, Slovakia. Shevchenko, March 12 Story
Day Four. The same poet, a different logic of arrival. The Detour That Was Not Optional There is a particular kind of decision that does not feel like a decision at all. It arrives fully formed, already made, and all…
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He Was Already There. A Pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. Shevchenko, March 11 Story
The Weekend That Should Not Have Been Possible In 2007, Air Canada did something it has never done again and probably will never do again for such a low price. For a brief, improbable window, it offered a pass, an…
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He Was Already There. A Pilgrimage to Vienna, Austria. Shevchenko, March 10 Story
Day Two. The same poet, a different city, a different kind of finding. The City I Lived In Without Exploring For one month, Vienna was my address. I had an Airbnb there, a base, a place to return to between…
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He Was Already There. A Pilgrimage to Kranj, Slovenia. Shevchenko Day, March 9
Today is March 9. Shevchenko Day. The birthday of Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, born in 1814 in the village of Moryntsi, Kyiv region, into serfdom, into an empire that did not believe he had the right to a language, and who…
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When Truth, Care, and Equality Grow Together, Humanity Blooms
International Women’s Day 2026A year ago, I wrote that when we fail to value women, dictators rise. I stand by every word. https://krasun.ca/2024/03/08/when-we-fail-to-value-women-dictators-rise-100-reasons-to-honour-womens-vital-work-this-international-womens-day/ This year I want to say something simpler. Something that goes beyond politics and history and debate.Today…
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When Children Lead: American Students, a Canadian Initiative, and the Evidence That Simple Acts of Care Change Wars
The Video That Stopped Me A former classmate recently shared a video that has stayed with me since I watched it. American children, elementary school students, had written letters to Ukrainian soldiers. Not typed them. Written them. In Ukrainian letters,…
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What Are We Teaching Our Children? Four Years of Full-Scale War and the Generation That Will Not Forget
February 24, 2026 — Four Years Since Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine Four years ago today, the world woke up to the sound of explosions over Kyiv. Four years ago, millions of children woke up to russia’s full scale invasion.…
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