WHERE DO WE LIVE?
As my Dad said many times,
Since I came back to e wet coast in fall of 1973 I have lived in fifteen different places within the Greater Vancouver area. I have lived in vermin infested warehouses and SROs glossy apartments and Co-ops but have never considered that this is where I live. There must be some gypsy in me because where I am is where I am.
I'm convinced that we live in our heads regardless of where we locate the body. Someplace out of the elements where we can put down our baggage both mental and physical is good enough. The structures we call home will last longer than us and when we have left this mortal coil the only memory will be the work and families we leave behind. Probably twenty years after we have passed on, the only evidence of our existence will be yellowing photographs in our grand children's albums.
Ciao, JWL
More beautiful pictures - good work Sir - I used to own a huge gun
collection and they brought in gun control so I sold every piece - got $16K
for the lot which went South to museums through an agent to the gun
collectors in the US. Many black powder hammer guns were not very good for
hunting grouse etc but they had a historical and collectiabile HBC value.
We had no charity number at the time so the guns once sold brought us anti
biotic ointments, dressings, and pain killers - half an aspirine gives a
suffering child a good night's sleep. The guns were heavy and it took me
three loads in a half ton truck to haul them all to the agent who
registered them - It was a good thing for the aids orphans and for me
because I worked at the police station issuing permits to carry and had
been registering handguns for many years and I refused to register my guns
again and the long guns would have been a nightmare. You are right, the
guns were too heavy for me to carry (3 half ton truck loads) so they owned
me, I was chained to security lockups - now I definitely don't own them and
I am free of the locked cabinets - billy