I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
Month: December 2019
Last Friday was the busiest travel day of the year at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport with more than 170,000 people headed in different directions. The travelers and their families were going on vacation, or going home for the holidays.
This is an important time of the year to get together with loved ones, an important time to go the distance to feel the love you feel you’ve neglected, or avoided.
Whether you are going or coming, welcome home. I wish you safe passage.
For many, it is not always possible to get home, or to find home. As our lives change, our perception of what is home, or where we live, is transformed.
Home is not always a place or destination, but a feeling.
Home is a place you can visit without leaving where you are.
Home can be that kind of place.
Home is a place where we feel the warmth and memories of those who are no longer with us, or can’t make it home.
You don’t have to travel far.
Be at home with yourself.
Happy holidays.
12/22/19 j.g.l.
Posted on December 21, 2019 by j.g.lewisLeave a comment
Believe in the coming day, the opportunities that will come, and the generations to follow. What is now is not what will be, and all we had is only a shadow of where we were.
Evolution happens, no matter how well, or how poorly, we are prepared. If we have not readied ourselves for the times ahead, we may well gain a more meaningful experience by simply maintaining a spirit open to the expansion and contraction of our lungs, and allowing our eyes to wander
If we only look straight ahead, we will certainly miss out on uncertain wonders, necessary distractions, and our true potential.
Breathe and see what could be, and let others notice exactly what you are.
Celebrate the darkness, and the light, that will guide you through another year.
j.g.l.
Posted on December 20, 2019 by j.g.lewisLeave a comment
Hardly a dozen days remain in this decade of change.
We are not what we were, nor will we be what we may.
Are we like everybody else? We’ve become less individual.
Hasn’t it become more difficult maintaining our personality, in a digital era, as we navigate our way through ultra-convenient devices loaded timesaving applications? Have we learned more, or is everything done for us?
Can we still think for ourselves?
Each step we take is now tracked, or monitored, or commoditized? Is this how we want it? We capture it all on mobile devices, but do we see with our eyes?
Each minute, each day, every gigabyte, more and more, our data trail is obvious. Where we go, what we do? Even who we connect with; is nothing private, for me or for you?
Algorithms dictate the content of our lives, or they will if we want it. Information is denied, or not always available, and our personal data is another matter.
How can we keep anything to ourselves?
Privacy and security, once so dear, has it become lost in the shuffle?
We’ve become willing participants in a depersonalized process.
Indeed, the end is near.
12/20/2019 j.g.l.
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