Dick Gariepy

The heart reaches out, the conscience recoils. The result is the quiet gaze of the onlooker, the bystander’s posture. Seeing harm, feeling its weight, but remaining still. It is not lack of care that stops them, but fear of the moral work that true empathy would require.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love… Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer,

Dick Gariepy | Big Thinky Ouchey “She called it care; I call it betrayal. Love doesn’t put you in handcuffs.” The Day Love Became a Police Matter Every child grows up believing their mother loves them unconditionally. I certainly did. That belief shattered on July 5, 2022, when I found myself pulled out of my Bioethics lecture by police officers handcuffing me – all because of my mother’s actions. Two days earlier, unbeknownst to me, my mother stood in an Alberta courtroom and swore under...