Lusaka, Istanbul, Prague, Kolkata, Dhaka, Ouagadougou… are all places my friends are going this summer, for weeks, months and years. I am home. As of Monday, over 10 friends are gone
Today I’m housesitting a place in Riverdale, trying not to be repulsed by the bourgeois enclave. Listening to Yael Naim, Coldplay and Amos Lee…Watching [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Home
Posted in Home, Travel on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kalinga
Posted in Kalinga on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I miss it now. I miss the mornings when it was cool and the dust was not in my eyes. I miss getting up at 4:45 and waking 30 children and youth to start morning cleaning. I miss gently shaking little ones from their sleep and seeing their wide-eyed bemusement at my early morning energy. I miss [...]
The Weekend
Posted in Beauty, Future, Weekend, family on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So on Friday after work, I checked out Luminato - www.luminato.com - with a bunch of friends and some new people. We met up at the Village Idiot. After eating and drinking we wandered over to Dundas Sq to check out the music. It was really hot out. The first truly hot day of summer. The night finished off with lucid [...]
