One Week Back in Vancouver

a few observations and notes and perhaps indulgences from the past week of becoming aclimatized once again... look at all these white people! sullen people, staring at the streets; cold people staring straight ahead when i pass and offer out an exploratory, "good morning." people on the street walking alone or in small groups, standing and talking. aloof, pretty people carrying bright shopping bags from fancy stores with names to be recognized. and yet, there are so few people on the streets, and so many in huge vehicles on their own. look at all this space! around me, the openness of the streets and sky above, the damp freshness of the air, the quiet and solace; it all stretches out as if it too were packed onto that airplane for 9 hours waiting to reach high to the sky above, to releas...