Simply Sedentary

As a youth, I lived in a small town with a year-round population of 2000. To be more accurate, I lived nearly three miles from downtown Sunapee in a suburb called Wendell, NH. So in reality, I grew up near several hundred people. The amazing thing about that area is how similar it looks today. Not a lot has changed in the past forty years. Thomas Wolfe was probably right. Maybe I can't go home again, but it's nice to know if I did that it'd still look the same.

We've now lived in British Columbia coming up on nine years. That's the longest I've stayed in one place since becoming an adult. New Westminster is relatively small, as far as municipalities go, with a population of around 55,000. Yet, it is in the middle of the urban Vancouver landscape.

Here, things don't stay static for long. The photograph above was taken in the rain yesterday. The front building shows where we rented upon arrival from Dubai. We stayed on Agnes Street for two years. Now, across the street, the entire slope is being readied for the construction of new highrises.