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Toronto, 2001.07.23

Going back to St. Kitts today (wonder how often I'll be doing that, from now on). It's Kamil's send-off before he takes a position at a University in Manitoba. Hopefully there won't be propane tanks rolling around loose in the vehicle like there were last time I took a rental to Niagara. Looking back, we really shouldn't have brought the fuel when we took Oma's barbeque. Some of the scariest moments of my life, that day in June.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009