Record-breaking heat – 34 feeling like 43! 43 degrees – that’s 109 in our old world. And my A.C. has decided not to work. No idea why, but this, dear machine, is not a good day to crap out. So I’m huddled in the living room with the fan and a glass of cold white wine. Could be worse. (The liquor store has no more good rosé. Imagine!)
I do have a U of T event tonight, but I just cannot cycle across the city in 43 degrees, full sun all the way, plus I am just not up for it. Mon dieu, BK not up for free food and wine and meeting with colleagues – something must be wrong. Well – I went to my Y class today, my legs hurt, it’s too hot. For once, I will go to the Cabbagetown Short Film Festival, run by my friend Gina, instead of a work event. I’m allowed – have not missed one in the 9 years I’ve been working there.
Went yesterday with Margaret to the AGO to see “Idea of North,” an exhibition of Lawren Harris paintings curated by Steve Martin. There is something annoyingly Canadian about this – that an American movie star discovers one of our great painters and suddenly we all do too. Except that we all knew how wonderful Lawren Harris was – his beautiful paintings of Toronto and then the north. It’s interesting that he moved directly from houses to mountains. It all gets a bit religious later, and then weird and abstract, but still, his work is glorious.
2 Responses to “Idea of North”
agree about the Brown. It should be better. The sense of entitlement is off-putting.
Another friend has said the same thing. I'm glad to have support – I was beginning to wonder if I was merely crabby, because the reviews have been glowing – his "warmth, honesty and charm" etc. Proof, perhaps, of the small world of Canadian writing – perhaps everyone knows him and I'm sure he's a really nice guy.