Blackberries

This morning I took a short stroll around the 'hood, partially to get my head in the game after coming out the other side of a crushing three-day headache, but mostly to pop across the street to pick up some cigarettes (I know, I know....)

I live in an industrial park.  Along a major trucking route.  Across the street from a heavy equipment yard.  Exhaust, dust and noise are an integral part of my life.  It's not perfect, but it is where I am at this point in my life.

Oh Canada!

Gratitude check: 

Timmy's coffee when I'm oot and aboot; 

Water I can drink right out of the tap, soil I can coax food out of, and clean air to breathe;

Quality education and healthcare, free for the asking; 

Rain forest, boreal forest, coast, plains, tundra and mountains (all without leaving your borders); 

Equality, diversity, and the evolving mindset of acknowledgement, apology and improvement.




No place is perfect, my country included.