magic – 365grateful

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i++ one of those days that you put your hand into the candy bag and magically end up with all five colors

i++ womantic walk through belmont (golf course) at dusk

i++ coffee tuna @ blu

commute: part ii

half asleep on the bus dreaming of half a rainbow

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Saturday: Strolling along Elbow Beach @ sunrise

Sunday: Walking to work along the Rail Trail

Tuesday: Taking delivery of furniture

Thursday: Picking up James at the airport

Friday: Celebrating with P&P (prosecco + pizza)

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i++ Xmas lights @ Brookfield Place (like fireflies)

i++ Weekend coffee date @ Sumach Espresso

i++ Tuesday morning coffee date @ Versus

i++ Catching up with Elizabeth @ Sud Forno (luv cafeteria style)

i++ Celebrating Mum’s bday @ Cherry Street BBQ

i++ He sent me this Kumamon picture!

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Saturday
Him: Is it raining outside?
Me: O let’s go for a womantic coffee date!

Toronto is one of those (slightly) dysfunctional places where a little rain creates little oceans around the curb. By the end of the coffee date, my shoes were in the same condition as that day when we walked around cape lookout along the Oregon Coast (see picture above).

As we sat outside Rooster Coffee drinking cortado (as always) watching the reflections of the headlights, a pink balloon floated across Jarvis Street.

i++ Rooster Coffee Jarvis
i++ Headlights
i++ Pink Balloon
i++ The Rain
i++ Little Oceans

mountaintop skating, the windiest spot in toronto, and perhaps fireflies

In 2016, I celebrated my birthday at Black Sheep Inn and experienced a swirling sensation as we hiked the Quilotoa Loop. Our destination seemed well within reach but the path was obscured by the multitude of valleys between here and there. Then the low clouds came in and the lay of the land became even more mystifying.

In 2018, how shall I celebrate my birthday? Well, birthdays are about believing in magic and magic is especially important in February, which may feel like the darkest and coldest month.

Option A: mountaintop skating because everything is more magical on top of a mountain

Option B: finding the windiest spot in Toronto for kite flying because life is about having a long volatility strategy

Option C: watching the night sky and believing that the stars are perhaps fireflies hovering just out of reach

img src=Milliman Forum Nov 16, 2005 (wow twelve years) (trying to remember what it was like being twenty-two)