Showing Off Our New Home

If we do, in fact, live in an ‘alter­nate real­ity’, where tea par­ties and trips to feather our nest are the most mem­o­rable activ­i­ties, then hav­ing wit­nesses might come in handy. This week, some old friends who were neigh­bors of our’s in Cam­bridge are in town. Glenn and Bethany have been treated to the best weather in months. Today’s Sun Run, a 10K race through Van­cou­ver, was indeed a run in the sun. I could quib­ble about the tem­per­a­ture (about 11˚ or 12˚ C), but it really was a gor­geous day. The rhodo­den­drons and aza­leas are out, and the snow-capped moun­tains are clear.

While the news reports from the US are of more sol­diers dead in Iraq, another mes­sage from Osama Bin Laden, and an over 60% jump in home fore­clo­sures in the US, the scene here seems pretty idyl­lic. An alter­nate real­ity? Some­times I do have to wonder.