How do we live with what we know?
How do we live with what we don't know?
..and each time, I awoke delighted with life on earth despite its desperately compromised nature.
- Returning To Earth, Jim Harrison
Friday, January 16, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
home
It takes time to arrive.
This summer, in Malaysia, it wasn't until my fourth and last week there, when I was walking in KL (why can I no longer remember the name of streets), that I felt I had arrived, come home, my body adjusted to the heat, to the noise, to the different rhythms.
In Vancouver, it has taken me 20 years.
When I first arrived and for many years later, I used to wonder what people meant when they said Vancouver was a beautiful city. The great outdoors, the beauty of the wilderness surrounding this unlikely city, was wasted on me. I could not see them.
Now, 20 years later, I see the new world.
Outside of me,
inside of me,
holding me in his arms.
This summer, in Malaysia, it wasn't until my fourth and last week there, when I was walking in KL (why can I no longer remember the name of streets), that I felt I had arrived, come home, my body adjusted to the heat, to the noise, to the different rhythms.
In Vancouver, it has taken me 20 years.
When I first arrived and for many years later, I used to wonder what people meant when they said Vancouver was a beautiful city. The great outdoors, the beauty of the wilderness surrounding this unlikely city, was wasted on me. I could not see them.
Now, 20 years later, I see the new world.
Outside of me,
inside of me,
holding me in his arms.
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