From the monthly archives: October 2009
To celebrate the oncoming “holiday,” for two days my company is housing what has been officially dubbed “Halloween Happenings” in which we have acquired the help of two lovely ladies to perform a scary, ghoulish pantomime in our storefront for passersby entertainment. Here’s to dressing up ridiculously for the hell of it.
Nearby the neighborhood of West Queen West stood this very angular skyscraper. It seems pretty irregular in design – to take a steel tower and make it look like a bunch of zany building blocks in the sky – but much of Toronto’s architecture is very creative. That was just one of the many reasons [...]
Time had elapsed; the evening was coming to a close. There was no definitive way of telling how we got here or why. All we collectively knew was that we needed to carry on, do what we do, strive for better days and a brighter tomorrow.
One amazing thing about living so close to water is the myriad of colors you have the joy of viewing night after night. The vibrancy streaks its way through curtains burning warm. It’s absolutely striking. As the seasons pass and change, the sun bounces from one end of the Cove to the other, stowed away [...]
On a brief weekend strut through the Cove, there were many a feline to be seen. I have a sneaking suspicion they are keen for the lovely weather we had on Sunday.
Last Summer I went on my first whale watch near Massachusetts Bay. We did very well that even the announcer was verbally ecstatic every time a blowhole would pop out or bird ball would form. The gulls that are swarming the humpbacks were practicing the daily routine of eating all the excess plankton that hangs [...]
It’s an absolute fact that my Zia e Zio are the coolest people I know – and we’re blood relatives so that’s just amazing. They live in a small town in Italy called Paluello down the road from my cousins who abide in a lovely little villa since the 70s. This was the first time [...]
From across the ancient grounds of Palatino, the Colosseum can be seen from many an angle. Walking along Via di San Bonaventura, Chris and I sauntered pass this very formidable and crumbling entryway which apparently leads to a basilica church devoted to Saint Sebastian and a covenant as well. Surrepitiously, I capture a stranger walking [...]
There’s not too much that can be said about this structure that hasn’t already been said and I don’t want to sound like a broken record here. But in all seriousness, it is astounding to witness the ingenuity and engineering of the Coliseum in person. This place is SO massive, so entrancing – it’s downright [...]
Symbols can be quite interesting – little masters of trickery wavering between the boundaries of the esoteric and exoteric. A well-known image of our time, to the untrained eye, appears so familiar, yet it could hold an unusual or hidden meaning. What is truly present, curious or commonplace, is for those with …eyes to see [...]
Photographs of strangers and their nuances on a jaunt through Piazza Navona. Postscript: Sometimes I really wish this theme was vertical-friendly!!!
This was a first for me. I didn’t know that one needed to travel halfway across the world to find a nun riding the bus. I mean, I didn’t even know they TOOK the bus let alone be caught riding it. The joy I took from this cannot be expressed in words. I was so [...]
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