“HïMY SYeD’s Labyrinth … in Olympic Village, Vancouver, BC on January 27, 2022 at 5:40 pm”
Thank you James for including and sharing (my) Vancouver Public Labyrinth in your Winter Sunset photographs from last night.
Grateful to see Labyrinth is still intact and remains walkable.
HiMY SYeD started making labyrinths as a child. Now they’re enjoyed by children across Toronto https://t.co/nxfQOyA9rO via @torontostar
— Jessica Dee Humphreys (@jessicadeehum) November 10, 2021
What a wonderful profile and article!!
— Maria Birmingham (@mkbirmingham) May 16, 2021
His labyrinth at our park, Earscourt, has saved our sanity during this pandemic when we weren’t able to use the playground right next to it for so long!
— Claudia Davila (@ClaudiaDrawings) May 17, 2021
Had the pleasure of meeting/interviewing HiMY for a story back in March 2012 when he did a labyrinth at #BeachTO – https://t.co/2Qo0uOqpvE pic.twitter.com/4IB0dRwIMG
— Joanna Lavoie (@JoannaLavoie) May 16, 2021
@LabyrinthsDOTca – thank you so much for the labyrinth at Toronto's Phin Park wading pool! I walk it during Covid – calms me down. One Q: the inner markings have worn off and I can't find a way "out". Is there a "plan" we can use to repaint parts or is it meant to be transient?
— Susan McMurray (@SusanMcMurray11) May 18, 2021
Grateful for your Acknowledgement.
So few photographs exist of me when making my Labyrinths,
Deeply appreciate your taking of this one and sharing it.
Thank you Antonio.
Happy Walking !
This Thursday Morning was the Big Day !
Your favourite local Labyrinth Maker, wore his Red Labyrinth TEE, to the Mobile Vaccination Clinic !
I signed up at 10:03 p.m. last night on a Stand By List for First Doses at MAC ICCO, Islamic Community Centre of Ontario operated by Muslim Association of Canada.
There was no guarantee of getting a first shot today, the email confirmation warned us.
We may have to wait all day from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
But that’s not what happened at all.
The company that was outsourced by the Region of Peel to handle the online booking system for Vaccine Doses at this location pretty much were overwhelmed, almost from the first day registration opened on April 30 2021.
Confirmation emails or phone calls were not being sent or made.
Many people had MISSED their confirmed Vaccine Appointments at this Mobile Vaccination Clinic.
MAC created an easier parallel online booking system for “Standby Appointments” to ensure all available doses were used.
Almost all the people ahead of me in line that you can see in the above photograph, were Standby.
And all of us received our first dose of Moderna before Noon !
There was a somewhat Labyrinthy Experience to everything.
Before you enter you start with Questions,
Like any worthwhile Labyrinth walk.
Having satisfied the Security Guard that we were Vaccine Dose eligible,
we enter the Vaccine Clinic Labyrinth . . .
Followed a winding path marked by duct tape on the carpet and arrows stickered on the floor 6 feet apart.
Sometimes the Centre of a Labyrinth has spaces that resemble rose petals or alcoves.
People sometimes sit down in those places inside the Centre.
Today’s Centre has Vaccine Stations.
And this where I sat down . . .
My Vaccine Dose was administered by Andrei, a registered nurse.
I asked him if there was any difference between getting jabbed in the right arm or the left arm.
It was something I had been wondering about.
Did the Heart being closer to one’s left arm have anything to do with it?
Nope.
There was no difference in efficacy, either arm can be chosen to receive the jab.
Because some people might feel a little soreness for a day or so in their arm,
People are recommended to get jabbed in their less dominant arm.
I am mostly right-handed, so I got jabbed in my left arm.
IF any soreness pops up today or tomorrow, my right-handedness won’t suffer.
Oh okay.
Minor Mystery solved.
Here we go . . .
Time of Dose : 11:37 a.m.
I know I felt something,
but I almost can’t describe what getting the needle in the arm felt like.
Painless.
Over in seconds, if that.
As almost everybody knows by now,
After getting your first dose,
You need to hang around on site for 15 minutes.
If this were a trip,
This is the part where we ask, “Are we there yet?”
Because we are stationary,
We instead ask, “Are we then yet?”
Like the Jab that was painless,
This passing of 15 minutes of time went by almost unnoticed.
Because I was a Standby Vaccine Appointment, while checking out at the exit desk, they could not confirm date and time for my second dose.
That would be in an email to be sent later.
No matter.
I was giddy and feeling euphoric while this portrait of me standing beside the retractable Vaccination banner stand while pointing to my jabbed arm was being taken by a MAC ICCO volunteer.
Many times, one needs to walk a Labyrinth more than once to get the most out of it.
I’ve gotten my first Vaccine Dose at the Mobile Vaccination Clinic today.
To ensure COVID-19 immunity, I need to repeat the steps above a second time, but that’s for another day.
Today was another success at the MAC ICCO mobile vaccination clinic. We managed to reach the maximum capacity of the clinic with 737 vaccinations administered today. We supplemented the inefficient Alio bookings with standby lists and limited walk-ins. #VaccineForAll pic.twitter.com/Nh1ZebY7Q0
— Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) (@MACNational) May 7, 2021
Often you need many minutes to complete the entire Labyrinth Path.
Other times, like on World Labyrinth Day, you only need 6 seconds !
This photograph show French Bulldog MOMO inspecting the Labyrinth beside the Skating Rink in Trinity-Bellwoods Park.
If MOMO looks close enough,
He may see the chalk markings I used when designing and painting the Labyrinth.
This photograph was likely taken on the day I was painting it,
or during the days after.
“Dino Sunday Series 🦖🦕
Fun fact: The Triceratops had a hard, parrotlike beak.
One of the lesser-known facts about dinosaurs such as Triceratops is that they had birdlike beaks and could clip off hundreds of pounds of tough vegetation (including cycads, ginkgoes, and conifers) every day.
They also had “batteries” of shearing teeth embedded in their jaws, a few hundred of which were in use at any given time.
As one set of teeth wore down from constant chewing, they would be replaced by the adjacent battery, a process that continued throughout the dinosaur’s lifetime.
Could you imagine how many bones you could chew through if you had a beak like a Triceratops? 🤔”
Pay no attention to the Dinosaur behind the dog . . .
Dogs digging the Snow Pile dumped from Zamboni ice rink shavings,
With my Yellow Pass-Through Labyrinth in the background . . .
“💙 This little parkette,
Was nearby my old apt and became a spot of happiness, sadness and escape for me during these past few months.
That bench, parkette, and this view will hold a special place in my heart ♥️”
Mushrooms sprouting in the Vancouver Public Labyrinth ?
Unexpected !
