The Warmth of Community
They made a makeshift cardboard torch from our flame and took it to help light a fire for their kids.
They made a makeshift cardboard torch from our flame and took it to help light a fire for their kids.
That was what we really wanted, to crash into each wave, gasping and reaching for each other to prepare for the next one.
The chair that always had yogurt cups tucked into its corners!
I had never learned to actually do creative work in the first place.
If you lived in Manitoba, you could at least call today Terry Fox Day. But then you would live in Manitoba.
Excuse me while I go buy a fedora.
What if you just need more time to have a look around?
It is forever in the way that every teenager screenshots a text message to send to a friend in disbelief, in the way that grandmothers download pictures off of Facebook and print them out.
I imagine telling my story to someone; spin a future where there wasn’t a pandemic anymore, and I wasn’t working at a warehouse anymore, and I wasn’t alone anymore.
Mostly, I think, I want to feel some bit of control.