Toronto+Vancouver City of Labyrinths Project

I visited Glen Park, in an East Vancouver Neighbourhood I was familiar with back when I was here in 1996.

Encountering such a huge wide patch of asphalt was too tempting to leave alone.

Out popped the chalk, up sprang a Labyrinth, round and round the children ran.

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Exploring the Strathcona Neighbourhood in East End Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday…
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In Christie Pits

The wading pool is emptied out
The trees have left their leaves about
You wear no coat, but breathe a cloud
In puffs that float, above the crowd
At play in Christie Pits

Last night the swings were flipped around
You try to reach them from the ground
Your sister climbs to set them back
While father mimes a heart attack
Brought on at Christie Pits

You snack on fruit and carrot sticks
On cans of pop and peanut mix
You heed the words from all the mums
To feed the birds but not the bums
Who sleep in Christie Pits

The swing is swung, the slide is slid
The climbers climbed, the rides all rid
It’s time to go, you beg to stay
A second NO! You turn and say
Goodbye to Christie Pits

by Heather Emme

Here in Halifax to begin my second leg of 30 Masjids CANADA. This is a separate project from Toronto City of Labyrinths and is a different area of my life… yet here they are overlapping.

Again.

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