The extent of my Christmas shopping yesterday consisted of browsing shop windows, flipping through shelves of books, and planning outfits at the mall; all the while, rubbing my empty wallet thinking, “soon….”
20 . Student . Ryerson . Image Arts . Canadian
This River I step in
Is not the river I stand in.
The photographic essay of my everyday life with bits and pieces of things that catch my eye thrown in.
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This River I Step In;
This River I step in
Is not the river I stand in.
The photographic essay of my everyday life with bits and pieces of things that catch my eye thrown in.
My Flickr
My Postcards • Ask me anything
This River I Step In;
The skylines of Montreal (top) and Toronto (bottom) from two different rolls of film I shot over the summer. Montreal shot from across the St. Lawrence River on St. Helen’s Island, and Toronto shot from across the harbour on Ward’s Island.
So not only am I scheduled to work December 22nd, 23rd, 24th and the 26th, they’ve scheduled me to work new years eve. Goodbye holidays.
I hung up some leaves I gathered in High Park on the window as a decoration for Autumn. I think it’s time though that I start replacing them with snowflakes (though it still hasn’t snowed yet)! Also exams and everything are over so I’m free until January!
I’ve come to a sad realization about my life; I was born a month premature, and that was basically the first and last time I was ever early for anything.
While I finish up last minute work for school (After Wednesday I’ll be free!), I thought I’d leave you all with two old vacation photos from my family trip to Alberta years ago. Here I am on the Athabasca Glacier, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
“Year in, and year out, automobiles kill 1.2 million people around the world, and injure twenty million.* It is a hecatomb equivalent to a dozen fully-loaded jumbo jets crashing every day, with no survivors, yet one so routine the majority of fatalities go unreported - as though being crushed by glass and metal had become just another of death’s “natural causes.”
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*in spite of airbags and seatbelts, automobile accidents still claim over 40,000 lives a year in the United States, and cost the economy $433 billion annually.
Straphanger by Taras Grescoe
