Today's Daily thoughts

It's sunny and relatively warm here in Toronto, on this 23rd day of February, 2006 --- about -3deg C....very nice....like spring!...i feel so good....in love...with life, with a new on-line chat mate, so wonderful to feel this good again!...it's been a long long time...

today as i jogged down University Avenue i loved the springness in the air...i do love the winter, it's crispness and sharpness, but i also love to hear the birds chirp and the way the sun shone upon the flags as their metal tags clanged on the poles beneath them; i noticed a French flag, an Italian and an American one amongst the Canadian ones all along University Ave...i passed many war memorials....ad nova astra -- to the airmen who fought in WWI at Dundas and then at Queen...the lovely crowned angel standing opposite Sir Adam Beck of Chippewa - Trent fame

Little did i know the Chippewa figures into the posting i put up yesterday in the lyrics section...
the Gordon Lightfoot song about the Edmund Fitzgerald ......there were so many references in that song that me reflect on history..and my personal history too... i recalled how Lake Superior looked that fall day when we ate smoked whitefish by the bay.......

...kitty-korner to the war memorial angel is the new Canadian Opera House...beautifully architected and being built by one of our very own clients...i feel so proud of all of this...and knowing that one day soon my mom and I and maybe my little nieces, sister and sister-in-law will get to go inside those cobalt laced black bricks to see some wonderful ballet...

at 40 i'm more fit than ever, and so happy to be alive~!... i feel so so so much better than i have in weeks/ months....a new beginning...since i've been posting on here i've reawkened a side of me that's been largely dormant for a long time, so excuse the scrambled jumpy hither to there approach....there's just so much i want to say and get out!...

you see i finally wrote a poem for Wendy, the lovely girl who sadly died in a ski racing accident some 15 years ago...and i think i've been harbouring some misplaced guilt about this for some time....it was through the encouragement of my new friend to write that i was finally able to catharcize this somewhat...now i need to do the same for some other people i lost along the way...(that's a Bob Marley song which reminds me of a Beatles one too, "In my Life".... )

on the music note, i'm going to go back and post Buffy Sainte Marie's "Fallen Angels" on the tree poem...
i'm so very excited about my new found literary and music afficiando friend whom i introduced to you yesterday.... do be sure to keep checking his blog for great directives on new music and reflections on the classics

it's amazing how once you start directing your life towards the things that give you joy everything becomes so much more sunny!!

sorry for the disjointed post...
ciao for now, mes amis,
katherine

Picture: LP cover DaveMatthews Band