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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Park to the right

The quiet under the market
London, ON
November 2016
This photo originally shared on Instagram
It's been a while since I've had to park in a place like this, another unexpected and admittedly trivial benefit of living through lockdown.

As much as I enjoy going months between fillups and not having to commute through traffic, I do miss the changes of scenery so central to regular urban life. You go places, you do things, you meet people, you expose yourself to varied experiences.

I miss places like this, an empty parking lot deep under the downtown core. Which, on the surface, seems like a weird thing to remember with a photo.

But the everyday is just as worthy of being remembered as the extraordinary, especially when circumstance renders even everyday places like this unattainable.

Which is another way of saying we won't know what we miss until it's firmly in our past. Even a dimly lit corner of a place few would ever stop to notice.

Is it odd to say I look forward to returning here when all of this insanity is in the rearview?

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