Winter

I feel like I have nothing to blog about. Maybe that's what I get for moving to the city for a few months. Life is pretty regulated here. Reluctantly get up, eat breakfast quickly, brush teeth, share ride, walk up Robie and sit at my desk for 7.5 hours with a pleasant lunch in between and then onto a bus to return home, cook food, eat, maybe play scrabble or watch a movie then exhaustion sets in and it's off to bed, repeat.

I have all these great ideas for stories and zines and shirts (managing to get some things done). But it doesn't feel like there is space and time for projects.

Perhaps the winter is just catching up with me. I remember that last March and April I was really down in the dumps before the excitement of the summer. I think that it's a natural reaction to circumstances. And it's definitely more overcast in the Maritimes than it is in Ontario. I guess I miss the sun. On the next sunny day I'll have to go out and run around.

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My friend and fellow gardener Dan has decided to move back to Ontario. I wish him well and I'm glad that being here has helped him to realize what matters most to him.

Though now I'm suddenly in charge of the garden. Secretly I'm so excited to see what I can do and I'm not really that bothered with making any mistakes and this will give me the chance to be creative. It'll be sad not to have a companion in the fields. I'm hoping that a bunch of wwoofers visit us this summer and perhaps a few friends. My friend Sapphire, who visited, told me to make her a flyer or something to give to people to convince them to come out and see what we're up to. And Marya asked me to do up a powerpoint presentation for our friends to explain what we're up to.

I really want to build a community where we live out here but I know that it will take a long time and I'll probably need a little help from our disintegrating civilization. I'm committed. Now I just need some sun!