Eva Barrie - Thought #11 - Parents

It's Eva. This is thought eleven and it's about the coolest fucking people in the world, and those are my parents. They're across the country right now and they're both in their like, mid-late seventies and my dad, he came to Canada in the seventies and worked as an engineer, and then after he retired he started writing stories and self-publishing them, and then recently self-published this memoir called The Road From Mandalay which is all about how his family came from Burma and then moved to India and then to Pakistan and he wrote all this during his retired years. And then my mom - who is also super cool - she worked as a paediatrician when she came to Canada and then when I was little, she started this charity called Pound Rescue that rescues abandoned dogs and cats. She's touched a lot of lives - human and non-human - and she's still working right now because there are still a lot of little lives that depend on her. So I'm worried, but I'm grateful because they're the most compassionate people I know.