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Springtime lunch

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2011.05.19

I had lunch outdoors today. No big deal in a normal Toronto Spring, but this was, as late as it is, the first time that I can recall.

The weather has been just ridiculous. Again today we woke to fairly thick fog that only seemed to deepen as the morning wore on. Finally at around 12:30 it started to burn off, and as I'd just emerged from a take-out restaurant I doubled back and got myself a fork so that I could eat on a rickety bench and watch the people on Spadina Avenue.

With the good, though, comes the bad. All of the rain has given rise to a bumper crop of mosquitoes. Our back yard today was so thick with the things that I had to hold my breath at times. Dragging my mountainbike while holding my breath and thrashing at my face .. what a way to start the day.

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke