2006-09-05/3:50 p.m.

letter to peterborough

do you know how deliriously happy you make me?

cynics like myself might chalk it up to the stark contrast between the lonely, slow, familiar and familial existence at my parents place for the summer and the busy hub of student and social life that exists here.

however, i enjoy having a territory to call my own, a place to create and live as i wish, a home that is close to all the friends that i missed, and that i now remember why i missed.

stormclouds lurk above the town (i still cant think of it as a city, the GTA suburbanite that i am) and threaten to break at any moment. its reassuring instead of looming, this change from the clear, open skies of prince edward county.

also, there is something interesting that i cant quite pinpoint but that i love anyways - the town and its citizens use a river to orient themselves instead of a lake, the lake of southern ontario. perhaps its a smaller sense of community, or a long, linear one along the trent-severn waterway, instead of the collective consciousness of those in the golden horseshoe.

as many houses as i have had, this place feels most like my home. this apartment was a choice, not just a necessity, and i am sane enough to enjoy living on my own now.

so, peterborough, i am greatly looking forward to our year together.