[URBAN NOTE] People should love Toronto
Dec. 23rd, 2005 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI had a moment of revelation last night near Broadview TTC station, when the streetcar approached Broadview Avenue's intersection with the Danforth. This January I went on a walkabout east along the Danforth with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bitterlawngnome. This October, on Canadian Thanksgiving, I went south past this intersection with finfin on a walkabout folllowing the Don Valley.
It's difficult to describe the precise sensation. Suffice it to say that despite the differences in season and time and company, those two mental maps knitted together superbly, rough edges brought into alignment, clicking as surely as any of my Lego blocks. It all fit.
And then, not two minutes later, I was looking southwest across the darkness of the Don Valley, Don River and DVP hidden from view, towards the skyscrapers of downtown Toronto. One thing I never really knew about skyscrapers, before I came to Toronto, is that their lights aren't all in a solid row, that the photons instead come to the viewers' eye visibly after they each illuminated the cell of a room. Skyscrapers are tall, but coated with these fragile bubbles.
My heart skipped a beat in that second giddy moment of realization. I so love my home.
bitterlawngnome. This October, on Canadian Thanksgiving, I went south past this intersection with finfin on a walkabout folllowing the Don Valley.It's difficult to describe the precise sensation. Suffice it to say that despite the differences in season and time and company, those two mental maps knitted together superbly, rough edges brought into alignment, clicking as surely as any of my Lego blocks. It all fit.
And then, not two minutes later, I was looking southwest across the darkness of the Don Valley, Don River and DVP hidden from view, towards the skyscrapers of downtown Toronto. One thing I never really knew about skyscrapers, before I came to Toronto, is that their lights aren't all in a solid row, that the photons instead come to the viewers' eye visibly after they each illuminated the cell of a room. Skyscrapers are tall, but coated with these fragile bubbles.
My heart skipped a beat in that second giddy moment of realization. I so love my home.
