My time in Toronto is almost up. I'm vacillating daily between an urge to engage with a new city, and in reminiscence of this great city and the people here.
Some highlights
- Ride to Conquer Cancer 2011
- Breaking the Guinness World Record for continuous organ playing (40+ hours!)
- Singing with the Eastminster United Choir, with Jacqueline Sadler at the helm!
- Serving dinner at the Out of the Cold program at Eastminster United
- The bike routes along Lakeshore
- Stratford Shakespeare Festival
- Biking 60 km from Guelph to Waterloo to Stratford in the middle of the night. I will always remember that pitch black stretch of perfect pavement outside of Guelph
- Speaking before the city executive council arguing for the Toronto Public Library system (this will happen tomorrow!)
Things pulling me away from Toronto
- En Route Magazine is in Montreal - and it's always been a dream to be able to work there
- Drums in Western Africa
- Dublin, Ireland and London, England
- Family in Vancouver - God I love that place.
- Grandparents in Guangzhou, father in Taipei, and an offer for a tour from a friend in Shanghai
So the things keeping me in Toronto are internal, extremely personal and intense experiences and extraordinary people (Come on, the music director at *my* church doesn't give up until she breaks a world record!)
The things pulling me away are external facets that I've never experienced before, and are drawing my sense of curiosity and adventure.
Is there any comfortable medium? To have one foot in Toronto, and the other out over the Atlantic?
I've never been one for half measures. I just quit my job, and I am ready.
3 comments:
Jon! You must travel! I swear it will be good for you. And I'm glad you still like Vancouver despite its flaws....but do expand your horizons! I wish you well :)
Thanks Jenny! I think I will take up that traveling bug.
I've got this feeling in my toes that they're going to walk on away without me if I don't hold onto them ...
I've been talking up travelling for so long, but now things are aligning to a state where I can actually plan it now (ie clearing out the apartment contract, left job, cleaning up loose ends, etc ..)
Yeah, I need to travel as well. When you go somewhere new you feel more and more that your fate is in the hands of a higher power, there is only so much your efforts can do. And there are many divine sights to see outside of Canada. GOOD LUCK!
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