The skyline of Toronto
And scattered life-notes...
Odelia here with Percolations #71. Nothing breaks like a heart, I know — and if I ever missed a Friday here, I know even the king and his men couldn’t put mine together again — unless they are masters of kinstugi.
No grand-sounding thesis or seemingly-brilliant rant this time.
I’m not even gonna stick with the normal structure of this newsletter, because we’re mixing everything up into one big melting pot.
Excuse? My brain is still recovering from a reset caused by the ice storm earlier this week, and my thoughts are currently too floaty-floaty to ground themselves into anything focused, long(ish), and coherent.
Hopefully my mind would be running at full power again next week. I’d also need better prep for next week’s issue prior to Friday — today’s full schedule forced me to break my record for “how late can you post and still be on time.” A little embarrassing but at least you couldn’t see my apologetic blush right now…
Welcome to random bits of my notes and photos. I hope you all have been doing well and keeping sane-ish!
Enjoy. :)
Solo dates
Some say the idea of “taking yourself out to something” is cringe, but perhaps it’s all in the wording and slant-of-meaning. I went on two this week that were quite lovely in their own way…
Headed out for boba on Sunday evening + a focused reading session of George Mack’s “High Agency”:
A dinner and concert Thursday night, right by the shoreline of Toronto. I had a lovely time - the 3.5 hour round-trip was pleasant, made beautiful by a couple Belicious drinks.
Gelato (biscotti + lotus, and nicciola):
A quick (~15 mins) pensketch of the city’s skyline on the back of a notecard sleeve:
Toronto at night:
Connor Price!
Price with Nic D — another phenomenal artists in his own right!
Graham (the concert’s opening artist — again, phenomenal!); the ceiling of the venue; a fancy purple car.
Encased in ice
We had an ice storm last weekend that took us out of power for a couple days. Waking up to nearly complete silence — no white noise! — is such a lovely feeling.
Some pictures of the cool (ha!) situation outdoors over those couple days:
This next one is almost spooky (untouched!):
That’s it for now — catch you all next week, folks!
Odelia
I like your pensketch of downtown Toronto!