on the street where i live

We're staying at a condominum in North York, which is a ten-minute walk from the office. The building is quite fancy schmancy, with a large gym, tennis courts, bowling lanes, billiard rooms, golf putting ranges, and... *ding ding ding*... a pool. Jackpot!

Our two-bedroom unit overlooks the ravine along York Mills and southern Toronto. There's something so blissful about waking up each morning in the cold winter air, watching the world lie peacefully under a fresh coat of snow. After sunset, the view paints a different story. The buildings of downtown Toronto glimmer in the distance, their lights a constant reminder that life is still going on somewhere out there. It's beautiful, yet at the same time sad. It gives me that same feeling of watching the world from an airplane -- the wistful, lonely feeling of being so near, yet so far from something.

This is the life.