More sunday thoughts.
I really like my new neighbourhood. I have never lived in a place where so many grocery stores, convenience stores, funky clothing boutiques, restaurants of both the fancy and greasy spoon variety, indie video stores, and purveyors of useless but fascinating junk existed cheek by jowl to my building of residence. And towering over it all with azure superiority from the north, quite a picturesque mountain.That being said, there are times when I miss southern Ontario with all my being. I never realized how many things had a chance to soak into my consciousness in 20 years of living there. The landscape, the weather, the sounds of animals and wind in the trees, the smells of flowers and soybeans and decomposing muck in the fields, or construction dust and Italian cuisine and decomposing garbage on Spadina. And of course, all the events that I am missing; the pork barbeque at Rouge Valley, Black Creek Gluttony for Jesus, goodbye gettogethers for Bento and Brier and missmachismo and Katie-oh, eating gross glutinous oatmeal pancakes after church at home with my family while arguing vociferously about the merits of a college vs. university education....
I never realized when I was living in Kingston what it is like to be gone. I have collected over the past 6 years a wealth of experience in being the one who is left, and that was hard too. But there is a whole world of other things to miss when you are the gone one.
This entry makes me sound like I'm super depressed, and I'm not, really. Just pondering stuff. Hey, did anyone else listen to Choral Concert this morning?
posted by annika fox @ 12:23 p.m.
4 Comments:
ooh.. I think you just hit on something I miss: Choral concert and cbc. the internet here is far too slow to support radio, and the studio is not at all private (a big room)
I also miss streets that do not smell like a mixture of garbage, pee, and just under 2000 years of human civilization.
miss you muchly.. off to the beach.
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I miss you too! But I think 2000 years of culture is worth a bit of smell!
It's weird when you miss even the things that are slightly gross, like the tangly brush of Ontario forests that's full of bugs and not very pretty, but home just the same.
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