Settling into a new city. The old city hall at Bay and Queen. Near here there are lots of hot dog and soft-serve vendors. I had the usual regular twist cone and walked west for a while. It's been warm and as you can see a little bit hazy.

I miss the ocean but when I went back to Nova Scotia for the wedding (which was otherwise great) it was cold, rainy, and typically grey.

I was listening to a George Carlin rant about how Americans started out with Paradise and turned it all into a mall. Sometimes that feels pretty accurate. What is fascinating and a little bit exhausting about the city is the constant promise of reinventing oneself, translated by latter-day capitalism into a demand to buy new things to make oneself new.