Last weekend, I’ve felt a keen appreciation for living in Toronto. On Friday afternoon, the Play Mobile dropped by our neighbourhood. We had a blast playing with all their random toys. Mira and I especially liked walking on bucket stilts.
On Saturday morning, we went to the Evergreen Brick Works. There is a farmers’ market that runs there on Saturdays. Meg dropped me and the kids off, and we went exploring. We found our way to the Children’s Garden where the kids splashed in the water and played with sandy mud.
On Sunday, we went to a birthday party held at Biidaasige Park. The kids loved the gigantic water play area. It was like the water play area at Evergreen but much larger.
All these awesome services and spaces are run by the city. It amazes me that these things are just publically available. It is spaces and opportunities like these that make me grateful to live in a big city.
Oh! And one more thing about Toronto. A couple of Esperantists on a tour of Canada started their trip in Toronto. I took them to Allan Gardens, another awesome city run space.
We spent the last week chilling with Mira. She wasn’t in any summer camp for the week and mostly just hung out with us. And, I gotta say, she’s pretty great to hang out with.
On Wednesday, she got very excited about Kay Davault and spent a lot of time checking out her books Oddity Wood and Misfit Mansion.
In addition to checking out graphic novels, we can now play cards together. Her tastes lean more towards Go Fish and Snap, but those are reasonable games for a six year old. She can totally handle GOPS. One afternoon we played Small Fjords and Eight Minute Empire.
Dewey, John. Art as Experience. Berkley Publishing Group, 1980.
Bridges got me thinking a lot about art. The only book on the philosophy of art that I have on hand is Art as Experience. My mathematics education colleague, Peter Taylor, highly recommends it. And so, I’ve started to check it out. I like Dewey’s down-to-Earth pragmatism. It feels really fundamental and grounded. So far, I understand that art grows out of ordinary experience. That is to say, all art somehow connects back to our lived experience.
Meyer, David. Inclined toward Magic. Waltham Street Press, 2003.
I picked this one up at BMV on the way home from hanging out with the visiting Esperantists. It is nice read about collecting rare magic books. As an amateur magician who has just barely entered the world of collecting rare books, this is totally my jam. A nice read for a subway ride home.
We continue to have great success with the pumpkins and gourds. They seem to really thrive in our soil. Next year, I think we might turn the most of the allotment in to a pumpkin patch. The bulbs we planted around Easter also seem to be doing well. During out latest visit to the plot, I talked about putting in a bunch of bulb for cut flowers.
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