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Late August, early September 2013</div>
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I don't know how to summarize this trip. All I know is that when I was standing on the sky train in Vancouver, completely drenched, hood up, eating a street market apricot, I decided that I never wanted to stop this. I always want to do things I've never done. <i>Some stories from British Columbia:</i></div>
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Landing in Vancouver (first time flying), giddy and restless. Midnight breakfast at Denny's and yelling in French from the hotel rooftop garden and ignoring the POOL CLOSED sign.</div>
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Falling in love with strangers on every mode of public transportation.<br />
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In Coombs, I found my new favourite <a href="http://www.oldcountrymarket.com/index.php" target="_blank">restaurant</a>. It has goats on the roof. And ice cream. And a market. And a piano to play. I was so stoked, I left my shoes there.<br />
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The first night on the marina in Comox, Chloe and I looked for starfish with two kids we didn't know. I think we were giddier than they were.</div>
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Around 1am, I pushed open my porthole. I could only see night, but I sat in my blankets and listened to the guys play their guitars for at least an hour.</div>
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After the first day of sailing, we jumped off the boat to swim to Savary Island and I remembered a second too late: <i>salt</i>. I had never been so thankful to taste something so terrible.</div>
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One night I went for a kayak around the mountains after we had anchored in Tenedos Bay for the night. At dusk, in a moment of complete silence - <i>"THIS IS THE DARK KNIGHT!!!"</i>. Apparently the guys had snuck a walkie-talkie in my kayak and decided to have some fun.<br />
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"Anvil Lake needs a mythical creature and we don't know what to name it. Will you help us?" Chloe and I spent a good portion of that evening standing on the pier, brainstorming and laughing with three boys we had never met. That same night, we met a lady who lived in a remodelled school bus on the top of a small mountain.<br />
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There was the night of mistakes and forgiveness and and pinot noir and <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/pictures/120319-glowing-waves-ocean-blue-bioluminescent-plankton-science/#/glowing-waves-bioluminescent-ocean-life-explained-scintillans_50152_600x450.jpg" target="_blank">phosphorescence</a>. And then the night of tired laughter and lessons in s'mores and pinot grigio and stargazing. It was when we anchored that I felt anything but.<br />
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On our last day of sailing, Spencer played The Lumineers on his guitar and told me to sing. I did. Loudly. Terribly.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201515464709195" target="_blank">WHALES</a>. Near Cortes Island. I will never forget it.<br />
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We spent a night in Victoria at a 1912 home turned bed and breakfast. This night was particularly <a href="http://abbeywearstoques.tumblr.com/post/57685553443/midnight-travel-rants-are-my-new-thing-so-im#notes" target="_blank">terrifying and wonderful</a>.<br />
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We were early for our flight back home, so Chloe and I snuck into the Fairmont to kill some time. I sat down at the grand piano in the lobby and just stared at the keys, too scared to play. <i>"Psssst," </i>I looked over my left shoulder. A middle-aged cowboy (in the full getup) cupped his hands around his mouth rasped, <i>"Dooooo it." </i>I laughed. And then I played. Chloe said the guests couldn't stop smiling. And now I have a good story about how I got kicked out of the Fairmont in Vancouver.<br />
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Our Sundays have greatly enriched my summer. I'm thankful for you and the things you appreciate, the things you <i>notice </i>- E Minor and a really good cup of tea and when people say your name when they're speaking to you.<br />
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I like the way you talk about people. Graciously. Enthusiastically. As if they can hear you from streets, towns, provinces away.</div>
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I like your ideas. Ice cream for lunch and classical music on your basement floor and "I just gotta go buy a ukulele real quick,".<br />
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I even like the things I tease you for - the noises you make when you drive and the way you pronounce <i>vanilla</i> and <i>salsa</i> and <i>pillow</i>. How you refuse to eat your cereal with milk and the way your fingers fit together like puzzle pieces.<br />
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Kazan's birthday,</div>
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The day we had beaver tails for lunch,</div>
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The night on the dock,</div>
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The realisation,</div>
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(what I make from something cannot compare to what was made from nothing)</div>
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The night I got lost on my bike ride and met a man and his bus named Gus,</div>
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These past five months have put a selflessness behind my actions, but a selfishness in my writing. I write constantly, but I hoard my words knowing that they'll never come close to doing these these months justice, these <i>people</i> justice. Nonetheless, a few short and true stories:<br />
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I logged sixty-eight more hours on a bus. In other words, I went to New York. I slept on the cracked hardwood floors of a beautiful old sanctuary in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I learned what it means to serve and I wrote more than I have ever written in my life. I lost all of my photos and Hannah responded with <a href="https://twitter.com/imhannahnicole/status/324362156759977984" target="_blank">the coolest thought</a>. I have many stories and maybe I'll share them sometime, but here's the best one: I set out to bless and came home the blessed. It's funny how things work out like that.<br />
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I didn't see you that night. I only heard you. My eyes were shut and I didn't have to open them to know that it was <i>your</i> arm around my shoulders, <i>your</i> voice saying <i>"I'm so glad you're here,"</i>.<br />
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I fell in love with worship, took comfort in mutual brokenness. Walls were taken apart brick by brick, confession by clumsy confession. It was a slow and terrifying process in which I learned to let people in again. I am only thankful.<br />
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Graduation night. I shove some things in my orange backpack and leave my dress lying in a lacy heap on the basement floor. I throw on some denim. Yank the baby's breath out of my hair. Run. You two wait at the end of my driveway, singing. I sprawl myself out across the backseat of Larry and we drive in the opposite direction of the party. <i>Everything is beautiful, everything is beautiful. </i>He nods his head. She drums on the steering wheel with her thumbs. I play an invisible piano. At some wee hour, the dizziness of fireworks and star-spinning and handstand contests fades and there is only us... [half of a story]<br />
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You told me not to ever lose my quiet nature. It's funny, because I was so ashamed of it until you said that.<br />
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I wrote <i>10:53</i> in the top margin of this page. And now, two weeks later, it all comes back. The Saturday before last, walking down a slushy road in Caronport, Saskatchewan. Robyn and Sydney on my left. The way it smelled of last night's campfire, like mornings at the lake. I don't have anything of much significance to say about any of this, but according to the top margin, I wanted to remember it. According to the top margin, I want to remember a lot of things. Writing in that space up there is my way of saying <i>"remind me to tell you..."</i>. Remind me to tell you about speed-dating on the eleven-hour bus ride and eating waffle sundaes at a café at two in the morning. Remind me to tell you how about how good it felt to hear <a href="http://vimeo.com/49126077" target="_blank">this song </a>live again and how in awe I was when I left Saskatchewan. All those human-shaped holes in my heart, I didn't even know I had them. How long had they been there? I left in awe because they had been filled.</div>
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It was Saturday night and I'd only known you for two days. It was the night my friends and I and two thousand other kids cried and listened and held each other. And when there was only sniffling left, we unbraided heads from shoulders and hands from hands and there you stood with outstretched arms. <i>"My new friend, Abbey,"</i> you smiled, <i>"come here."</i></div>
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I came. A human-shaped hole was filled.</div>
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And <i>you</i>. We were one, maybe two hours from home, the last leg. It was dark and blizzarding and the last of us were all huddled around one seat, talking. Faces didn't exist, only voices, the odd piece of raw expression made visible by a passing headlight. We had questions and you seemed to have all the right words. Not answers, per se, but questions for those questions. It made sense.<br />
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There are more names in the margins, more stories in those names, more human-shaped holes yet to be filled. I hope that there will always be another one.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(a roll of film from the holidays)</span></div>
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I thought about tradition, the significance of each time-honoured practice. Why some lose their spark, or never fail to do so. How despite being hand-me-downs from generations past, welcomed year in, year out, they still preserve that certain spontaneity. I thought about this and how it all tied into my own family's traditions; the rituals and folklore we unearth every twelve months. I thought about this later, after it was all said and done. I was living it at the time. We all were. </div>
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I'd be lying if I said I didn't wonder. I wonder where I'll be this time next year. I wonder how many more times we'll open our apple boxes. I wonder how many more games of fox and geese I'll play before I tire of it. I wonder if I'll ever tire of snow games entirely, if I'll ever lose my gift to play, really <i>play</i>, like a child. I wonder if any new traditions were born from our whims, if we'll go glow-bowling three days before Christmas and have supper at <i>Wu's Chinese and Canadian Dishes </i>three days after. I wonder and I am <i>in</i> wonder - of this season, this province, these people. They are good.<br />
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We walk home toe, heel now. Our backs facing the harsh and unforgiving prairie winds, just as we did last year and each one before. It's funny walking past our neighbours; facing each other, but only <i>after</i> we've passed. Like a film played in reverse. It's this or choking on air, though. Luckily, we've become skilled in the art of toe, heel.</div>
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We picked out our tree at the backyard tree lot, two weeks before last on the cusp of November. Half the battle is convincing Mom to opt for a real one. The other half is conquering the battle of tree vs. small door frame. It's all dressed up in the corner now, in knickknacks from and before my time. I like our ornaments and how each one brings to mind a certain feeling or a certain day or a certain person. Buying a proper set of ornaments is probably something I'll never do.</div>
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December hasn't been too generous with time to think or write or <i>sit </i>(I've been meaning to write for two weeks now). But she's been generous with time. Time for tests and work and preparation and overwhelming decisions. It'll all be worth it come Christmas break. I'll be thankful for it, even. It's a <i><b>chop your own wood and it will warm you twice</b></i> sort of month, and this week is the final swing of the axe. </div>
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I haven't written in what feels like forever. I scratch out whatever's on the surface each night, almost subconsciously. But it's been too long since I've given myself the luxury of just sitting and writing and actually grasping my own thoughts. And even though there about forty seven other things I should probably (definitely) be doing, I'm going to put my sanity at the top of that list, and tonight, I'm just going to write.</div>
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<i>Whenever I get an idea I scribble it down wherever I can find a piece of paper and sometimes I'll go back and read it and think to myself "I just can't go back to that moment. I can't feel what I felt when I wrote those exact words." That's the thing about being a writer, you can try as hard as you want, but sometimes there are just some moments you'll never be able to put back into words. Sometimes moments are just moments, and memories are all you'll ever have.</i></div>
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My beautiful friend <a href="http://beautylikeakaleidoscope.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Katie</a> interviewed Alexis, the wordsmith behind <a href="http://coolbluesouls.com/" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Twelve Odd Months</a>, and her words adhered to my heart. There are so many good experiences, so many struggles that I've been trying to make stories of, and having a good memory just isn't enough. Life happens and then they're too far away. We try to feel what we felt before. We write what we remember and we make up what we don't and in the end, all we have is this puzzle with all the wrong pieces forced into all the wrong spots. </div>
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Some moments are just moments and that's all they were ever meant to be. I'm <a href="http://abbeywearstoques.tumblr.com/post/36080275898/perfecting-this-a-little-more-every-day-ive#notes" target="_blank">playing</a> the piano more often. I have a new job. It's Winter now. My grandparents made my week. An application went in the mail. I met someone at my favourite coffee shop and got to tell them something I never had the chance to before. There's a million little stories. A million little reasons, morals, uncertainties, seconds of bravery, laugh lines, tears that coexist with these moments. But some moments and just moments. And sometimes, we let them be. </div>
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I've cried twice this week and it's only Monday. This kitchen table is more of a university pamphlet/application form display case more than it is a kitchen table. I biked to school in the dark and I biked home in the dark (such is almost winter prairie living). I've fought with my parents, I've scrawled viciously into my journal, and it almost feels like there's no weather at all. </div>
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So I left everything, even if only for a few minutes. I lit a paper lantern down at the lake tonight. It was zero and windy and it didn't fly. Still, I left my discontent there on the beach. In the dark I started anew. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">But some things, I kept. Because I didn't want to forget the good in the bad days. My bike rides, as dark as they've been. They mean a thermos of <a href="http://www.davidstea.com/oh-canada" target="_blank">Oh Canada</a> in my backpack pocket and the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/vinyl-cafe-stories-from-cbc/id263177347" target="_blank">Vinyl Café</a> in my ears. The prayers I scrawled out so viciously, but were answered the next morning (He is so good). Standing out on the deck in for no other reason than to feel alive; to feel Winter coming. Sidewalk chalk palms and late night filmmaking. </span>That one city evening when we had Mexican breakfast for supper at Stella's. Sweet<span class="Apple-style-span"> Rayvn, who lay with her head on the small of my back and let me cry. She said nothing. It was exactly what I needed to hear. </span></div>
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<br />Abbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14554152090141373923noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3109836070405210185.post-51133082958981876162012-10-10T21:07:00.001-05:002012-10-10T21:07:57.782-05:00a thanksgiving fete.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The morning of, we gathered our passports and you made oatmeal in that particular way that you do. <i>"Bales on the bottom"</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>(mini-wheats)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. </span>Porridge on top. A spooned-out hole in the middle for milk. Brown sugar and raisins like freckles on your always warm skin. A cup of coffee in a clear mug. <i>"I like to see what I'm drinking,"</i> you say. And you don't let me help you, because you're the sweetest kind of stubborn.</div>
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We crossed into America in the late afternoon, to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. Mostly because 1) we have family there, but also because 2) we're a little strange and we take pride in not making a whole lot of sense.</div>
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It was then that I realized (for the umpteenth time that evening) how incredible and slightly redneck my family is. And somewhere between the first flame and the second serving at the tailgate and the third <a href="https://vimeo.com/51184647" target="_blank">bathtub ride</a> and the fourth firework and the eighty-seventh little <i>I love you more</i>, my thankfulness multiplied. </div>
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And today, I'm back to being a stressed out senior. The sky is a white grey and the leaves that were ablaze just last week are now saturated in snow puddles, ceasing to crunch underneath my weight. It's a far cry from the fete that was Thanksgiving weekend. <b>Still, I am thankful.</b></div>
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When I write, some words about the weather tend to slip out somewhere between the first or second or third sentence. It seems to happen all on its own, really. Sometimes I think it's because: in my mind mind <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(an entanglement of mostly metaphysical thoughts)</span>, it's one of the only things I know for sure. I can feel it with all five senses. It's concrete, real, bona fide. Or maybe it's as simple as: I'm a Canadian. It's what we do. We live through every seasons' extreme, and we talk about it.</div>
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Like if I were to write about last Sunday, I would probably write about how we voluntarily set our alarms the night before <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(during girls weekend, at that) </span>and the next morning found ourselves experiencing the selcouth culture of motocross. I'd write about the three clapping-but-clueless girls on the bleachers <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(us)</span> and Kazan and Gene's makeshift cargo trailer home. But first, I'd have to write about the frost we woke up to. How it went from below zero to plus twenty and how it felt like every season all at once. I wouldn't intend on writing this. I just would. </div>
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Or if I were to write about right now, right here. I might write about how today was the first day since Summer I've photographed anything at home. I'd probably write about how fantastic/terrifying it is to finally be a senior, or how <a href="http://inglenookjournal.tumblr.com/post/32245609076/thankful-to-have-a-dad-who-lets-me-vent-in-coffee" target="_blank">Tuesday night</a> was both terrible <i>and</i> the night that I needed most. And honestly, I'd probably write about how this is the third time I've had toast today <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(right now, for late supper on the deck. with peanut butter.)</span>. And then I'd write about the weather, naturally. It's nice.</div>
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But this is better. Just writing what's on my heart, I mean. It's been a while. </div>
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Today, my jeans are sopping and splattered with mud, as I just biked home for spare in the pouring rain. Saturday, we went out hiking in the beautiful twenty-seven degrees. Most mornings, there's frost on the ground. And on Tuesday, it's rumoured to snow. So basically, it's a proper Manitoba autumn. </div>
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Here's something I've been mulling over. When it comes to this season <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(or any season, really)</span>, I can't help but feel like we tend to get caught up in all the wrong things. I love a good pumpkin spice latte as much as the next person <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(even more, probably)</span>. I like living in my moccasins and I own more toques than I should. But I think that we often fail to remember the season itself. I've been making a conscious effort to <i>see the season</i>. To watch it unfurl in all its glory. To just live in it. </div>
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So I ride my bike to school.<br />
I hike uphill until my phone says <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">WELCOME TO THE USA</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">(living by the border is a funny thing)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I chip some more light off that stump just to prolong our ridiculous sister dance parties. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I take it all in. Because seasons don't come in grande paper cups. <b>Hike on.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">an autumn <a href="http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Autumn+Sounds/77427341" target="_blank">playlist</a></span><br />
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Three days prior to summer's end, there was supper in the field. Chloe and I managed to escape to the farm for one last kick at the holiday can. Late Augusts and early Septembers have always meant tossing corn cob remains over our shoulders and coming back to the tailgate for seconds. They've meant wheat fields and canola fields and swimming in the grain truck. They've meant itchy legs and combine rides with Grampy. There's no longer room in there for me to sit on his lap and "drive". I've gotten too tall, but he gives his knee a slap and refuses to admit it. <i>I'm the strongest man in the world. </i>I love him. I love all of them. I love harvest.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a little video for my faraway family who couldn't come harvesting this year. you're welcome to watch it, too. but do yourself a favour and come </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/49126077" target="_blank">view in HD</a>.</div>
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It's hard for me to sit down and write about these annual trips to the lake. The first reason being that once I write about it, the words are no longer my half-formulated thoughts. They're out there on paper. More distant. A thing of the past, even if I desperately wish they were still my present. The second reason being my incapability to sum up handfuls of my favourite moments in just mere sentences. I don't want to say that <i>It was amazing.</i> or give it to you all in a nutshell. I just want to tell you some stories.<br />
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Like how on the third night, we got that nasty windstorm we secretly always wish for. The sky was grey and the sun was pink and we played like six-year-olds <span style="font-size: x-small;">(swim rings included)</span> in waves unfamiliar to us prairie kids.</div>
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After renting out little yellow bicycles (bananas, we decided they were) we stuffed ourselves with beavertails (and lemon) at a mosquito-infested table somewhere between the town and the shore. You <a href="http://instagram.com/p/O-OYw0LzlT/" target="_blank">chased seagulls</a> with your arms outstretched, yelling <i>LOVE ME!</i> They didn't.</div>
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Waking up in a cabin that still smelled like campfire and reese's peanut butter cup s'mores from the night before.</div>
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We ended up <a href="http://instagram.com/p/O9syEzrzqp/" target="_blank">here </a>on most afternoons, which was completely fine for a girl with a book obsession, a coffee problem, and a painting weakness. </div>
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I disregarded the <i>don't talk to strangers </i>rule on more than one occasion <span style="font-size: x-small;">(more on that another time)</span>. Strangely enough, its something I'd like to do more often.</div>
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The one night we stopped for gelati and dad said it reminded him of Italy because of the cobblestone and the busker on the cello, but the gelati just wasn't as good. We sighed, envious of his travels. <i>I can't wait to take you there someday, </i>he said<i>.</i> Neither can I. </div>
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Staying out <a href="http://instagram.com/p/O7-BQaLzm0/" target="_blank">here </a>a bit later than I should have <span style="font-size: x-small;">(with Jack Kerouac and some chai)</span>, for no other reason than a) I'm a night owl. b) It was summer, and c) I wanted to. </div>
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On the last night, we went swimming as soon as it got dark (and, yes. probably what you're thinking. it was a bucket list thing...). We had to stop halfway back up the steps because we were either panting too hard to properly giggle, or giggling to hard to properly pant. </div>
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Not wanting to leave the cabin for the very last time and purposely leaving things inside, just to live the lake life for a second or two longer.</div>
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On the drive home, we stopped at that old-brick-church-turned-hammock-shop we've always meant to duck into. Instead of a hammock, we got a tour of the owner's basement pottery studio and his old lens for my film camera. Some strangers are wonderful. </div>
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Those are my second lake trip stories.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(nana, chloe, rayvn, zephyr, kazan)</span><br />
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The city dares you to let your words be heard. The woods dare you to silence them; just to listen for a while. It's something I've learned this summer, flitting between the two extremes of bustling metropolis and quiet haunts. The list of cities I'd like to visit someday is a long one, yet something inside me knows I'll always come back to woodland life. To country life, to lake life, to farm life, to prairie life. To sky-in-every-direction life. </div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">s'mores</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">catching frogs</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">canoeing around the bay</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">naps in the sun</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">wearing pyjamas, too-big sweatshirts, and glowsticks twenty four seven</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">laughing a lot</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">kicking out the boys so we could have a girl's night</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">inviting the boys back in the morning to make us pancakes <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(those guys. they are wonderful.)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">playing with the chickens</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">llama kisses from alice and opal</li>
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That was the agenda for our weekend spent back at the cabin and in <i>the bush </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(cousins' farm in the middle of nowhere). </span>I didn't think much of these photos at the time, but looking through them now - they are some of my very favourites. It's not so much the angles or the light or the colours. It's these people. It's Kazan's animated bonfire stories and Chloe's ability to catch fourteen frogs in one net. It's Rayvn's quirky little dances and Meadow's way of understanding and sharing my bizarre sense of humour. It's not me who makes my favourite photos. It's these people.</div>
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They're pretty great.</div>
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August has been kind to us. It's been keeping us busy, but the kind of busy you wish you could always be. Yesterday we drove out to the city. First, supper at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deerandalmond" target="_blank">deer + almond</a>. We people-watched at our window seat <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(i think Winnipeg may be The City of Beautiful People) </span>and made up life stories and situations for each passerby. Second, a James Vincent McMorrow concert that I am still tongue-tied about. All I know is that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv7WllrZOcI" target="_blank">this</a> made my sister and I cry and live music is really just the best. </div>
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<i>on the calendar for august</i></div>
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drive-in movies | going back to <a href="http://theinglenook.blogspot.ca/2012/08/at-cabin.html" target="_blank">the cabin</a> | coffee and beach dates | harvest time | the fair | seeing <a href="http://fernwehmag.blogspot.ca/2012/08/the-littles.html" target="_blank">the littles</a> | round two of the lake | a bit of nothing and spontaneous plans i know nothing about yet</div>
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My aunt and uncle have had their eyes on this place for years - a tiny, reception-less getaway that just needs a bit of love. It's theirs now, and we gathered to prove it, leaving trails of pizza crumbs and wet footprints behind us. We made our mark, and it's made it's mark on me. Whenever I get to spend the day at a cabin, I can't help but feel like I might be getting a small glimpse of things to come. <i>My future</i>, per se. All I know right now is that August is looking full of promise. Here's to another month of this season.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="https://vimeo.com/46794398" target="_blank">view in HD</a>. your eyes will thank you.)</span><br />
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I'm often within reach of some sort of camera. I usually take advantage of that. I usually document. Sometimes I don't, because there are certain things that cameras just can't do justice. I find this to be true at the lake, especially, but that doesn't stop me from trying every now and again. These mostly failed attempts hold a special place in my heart.</div>
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(<i><a href="https://vimeo.com/45765741" target="_blank">click</a> to view the video in HD. unless you're in the mood for some blur. in which case, don't.</i>)</div>
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I still can't decide if that one night back in my own bed is the most comforting or the most disappointing of nights. Bittersweet, I suppose. Either way, I was ready to repack my yet-to-be <i>unpacked</i> suitcase by morning. Trip one seemed short lived <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(when don't they?),</span> but well lived. </div>
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<b>I made things. I left them there.</b> I brought home nothing but a full roll of film, a handful of images and videos (i'll share soon), and possibly a few beautiful pieces of jewelry from that one tiny shop opposite the boardwalk. I also read <a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/The-Fault-In-Our-Stars-John-Green/9780525478812-item.html" target="_blank">a really incredible book</a> and tried not to worry much about anything.</div>
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Until August, second home.</div>
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</div>Abbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14554152090141373923noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3109836070405210185.post-50907551812897529272012-06-29T15:05:00.000-05:002012-06-29T15:05:55.537-05:00sun dappled notes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I feel like I shouldn't be writing this. Like I should be elsewhere, tediously flipping through those piles (more like bricks) of flashcards. Like I should be racking my mind to the point of full-fledged mental breakdowns on the couch, which has basically been my life for the past two weeks.</div>
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<i>And it's finally over. </i></div>
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On summer's watch, only a few seconds have passed, yet I've had to remind myself at least twenty times that <u>whatever I happen to be doing, is exactly what I'm supposed to be doing</u> - a good manifesto for this carefree season. I'm stoked to live out summer's clichés (says the girl scrawling out these words spread out on a blanket under the apple tree), and more stoked for our weird traditions that are only revived in the span of these two months and some days. </div>
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It seems the older I get, the idea of living a life of adventure appeals to me more and more. I've always been one for wide open spaces, large bodies of water, trees of any kind. My mother often wonders aloud, <i>why didn't I make you a country girl? </i>And as much as I try to feed my wandering soul with stories, photographs, and apricots (because they remind me of that one orchard by the mountains in British Columbia), nothing measures up to the real thing. So for now, I cake comfort in campfires and dirty toes. In planting season and grass-stained knees and waking up with diffused sunlight in my eyes, seeping through the walls of a tent. </div>
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Last week, nana and grampy came out to live by our town's little beach for a few days. To put it simply, it was the week I didn't know I needed. Today, there are no grains of sand to be found between my toes, I did not wake up with the smell of last night's campfire lingering in my hair. But soon, that's all there'll be time for. Stuart McLean told me so.<br />
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<i>"Summer's coming. Before you know it, all there <u>will</u> be time for is the smell of sun on your skin. Someone's cottage. Summer love."</i></div>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">On our slightly gloomy day off, I drove us three girls out to the local greenhouse. If there's a remedy for that feeling you get after one too many grey days, I think I've found it - it's just a dome. Until you duck inside, only to find that this dome harbours it's own little season of colour, a certain newness that only comes later on in the prairies.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Developing my green thumb is on my summer to-do list, and planting day cannot come soon enough. That, and fresh-from-the-garden suppers on the deck. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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day after almost-summer day,<br />
i am left with an itch.<br />
a yearning to stow away to a cabin somewhere.<br />
anywhere.<br />
and come july, that will be a reality.<br />
but until then, foraging through <a href="http://freecabinporn.com/" target="_blank">this</a> will suffice.<br />
because i don't dare think about the real thing for too long.<br />
the excitement gets the best of me each and every time.<br />
isn't it incredible, though?<br />
that something can actually be <i>that</i> good.<br />
anytime now, summer.<br />
anytime.<br />
<br />Abbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14554152090141373923noreply@blogger.com39