Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into […]
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PostArctica: Walk # 11
“Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors…disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same […]
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“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright Started off at Sherbrooke Metro. The view south. The view north. Apartment building on Rigaud. Mural on building […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 9
“After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” — George Macauley Trevelyan Starting Point: Dollard and Newman in Lasalle. Bus let me off here. Headed south on Dollard […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 8
“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time […]
Continue readingPostArctica: At Last, Intergalactic Peace!
I have joked about seeing traffic cones everywhere this summer, even suggesting they are actually aliens in an upcoming post. But today I looked out my window and saw that […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Orage du 20 juin 2016
Incredible shot in Montreal by one of my favorite photographers, Mario Jean, also known as MADOC.
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Continue readingPostArctica: Walk #7 – Completing The Circle
“This is what I had come for, just this, and nothing more. A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, the assault of real things, living and still, with shapes […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 6 – Over The Mountain
“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.” ― Bridget […]
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“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Great Day At Dawson Community Centre.
I went to dances at this place as a teenager so it’s extra cool to have had a chance to hang out today at the annual Race for Kids/ Street […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 4 – Miron
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you’re in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 3 – The Road To Miron
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 2 Part 2
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller’s, only to know that […]
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“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. […]
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“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.” ― Jane […]
Continue readingPostArctica: More Backlog
Some more pictures from over the last 4 or 5 months.
Continue readingPostArctica: Backlog
Some more from recent months.
Continue readingPostArctica: This Is Not A Bus Stop
This is not a bus stop That is not me but it’s got an ash tray and a place to sit Most (temporarily) abandoned buildings do not provide this Over, […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Some I liked
Again, some random shots from recent months…
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