(yes you are one entity now, one being, one sentient thing...welcome to marriage)here is the new blog. Lets see if this promise can be kept Waldo and we'll go from there. You know me, I'm fickle, have ADD and I coddle mind that simply cannot accept the possibility that a finish line exists (see another saffian run-on sentence). The future hasn't happened so instead of worrying about what might conceivably happen (based on strong empirical and circumstantial evidence of capricious sloth) i'll try to be present and focus on each moment, moment to moment.
Got your e-mail concerning the sand dunes and the living arrangements. Sounds fabulous. One problem however is how do you ever come back to the city and move into a 675 sq ft apartment that costs more than 200,000 canuck bucks? I fear we may never have the grace of your long term presence in our fair town again. You may be here a short while, but long term perhaps not.
Then again, you may miss the allure of family friends and living in a throbbing, breathing metropolis, second to no place. You may miss the swagger, tepid bravado and charm that toronto enchants its citizens with. Mostly though is there anything like a toronto night, regardless of the weather? How the city feels, moves and sighs? How shadows dance the night and every breeze, every inch of sun tries so hard to assert itself on the city stage. Every city is different and every city adopts a unique persona under the cover of night, but magic my dear waldo and nerf (separated you for a moment) pushes through this city and its bones like nothing else. Only torontonians can understand this, and for that we are kindred.
Other than that I wanted to say hi, pass my love onwards and outwards towards the middle east and say we miss you. I'm still mad y'all left but as i keep saying, I understand and applaud the decision. This past weekend ems and I went to a friends cottage out by kawartha lakes on lake catchacoma (great name for a place you can drown eh?). Its been awhile but i really forgot how quiet life can be. How still the earth can feel yet how full of life this makes it seem. Even though I was expecting to see stars and be awed, I was blown away on the nights we could see them. how many there were! How far they stretched! how many more there were that we couldn't see. Looking at the milky way and see all that universal history sparkling before my eyes was mesmerizing. I couldn't stop staring, couldn't help but be humbled, couldn't help but try to reach out and see if i could touch the sky. It's always worth a try to do so isn't it? So close but so far? reverse that. So far yet so close. I like that better. I like the belief that universe and all the knowledge and heartbeats it guards is attainable. I want to be conscious, I want to feel god. The answer lies in the stars. So wherever in the world you are waldo/nerf, look at the sky tonight and i'll look at my version and we can meet in between the past and the future and have some time to ourselves.
Take care you too, catch up more soon.
reporting live from the free city,
Sarfaraz Hashmani (peace, love, freedom & justice as always)
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