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“It is true that our paths, our myths, our histories can give us clues to find our way back home. But how to look back, to construct meaning from fragments and broken mirrors? We try to organise our memories into a portrait of something or archive them like artefacts in a museum. Perhaps we should instead embrace the uncertainty of memory. And to embrace uncertainty one can only be armed with hope.”

Okay but I need to sign up for Skipper Otto. A Canadian community shareholder company that provides Canadian caught and sourced fish from small scale and indigenous fishers and they have a pick up location in Regina?! SOLD.

“Since that day, Nizar had operated as if history did not matter, as if the present was the only thing that existed… Now surrounded by Assyrian and Sumerian relics, he felt himself drowning in this room of stolen artefacts, carrying the crushing weight of thousands of years of loss.”

Okay it’s been a while when the first few pages of a book utterly grip me and pull me into a story so well!

“But we are all living in a Matrix-like world controlled by Big Food, and all the other bigs: Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Big Online (aka Amazon); we’re so deeply embedded in it–and the larger capitalist framework that has given birth to these monopolies– that we can’t see that there is another, more equitable way to organize our society”