Category: Blog

Jack Layton is dead. I just watched a 2.5hr funeral ceremony that was filmed yesterday — live. I entertained thoughts of going down to City Hall and then over to Roy Thompson Hall (where the actual public funeral was held), but was feeling far too vulnerable and emotionally/physically weak to take on that kind of…

I’m sitting on “the Bench” in ‘Section 51’ — Mt. Pleasant cemetery. I haven’t sat here since last summer… before the fire… doesn’t feel like it’s been that long? The place — the experience here — all seem timeless. In fact, it was on this very bench; just a year ago, that I finally broke…

(last entry from the old journal) I’m on a Wilson bus — headed west from Avenue rd. to Wilson station, where I’ll board a ‘120 Calvington’ and go pick up a Fender Jazz Bass I learned about through a Kijiji ad. I walked north on Avenue rd. after finally reclaiming one of my Hard Drives I…

Tonight I ran an errand which took me through forested decades, shimmering incandescence, and long shadows possessing their own personal nicknames. Not surprisingly, the ‘thought mill’ shifted in to high productivity, and I sat down in the textured night, so as to bask in the yield: In the post that precedes this — ‘Re-emergence —…