My dear Friends
Well, its so long for now, the plane leaves tomorrow at 4.30pm and arrives on Saturday at 5 in the morning, sunrise and Resurrection. Happens to be the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, the channel of peace for so many things and people. As we are hoping to be.
It has been a time of Feasts, today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels, we had the Archangels a few days ago, with the Jewish New year in between! For the first time in ages, I have developed a really bad cold, which I have nursing at Gary and Emiko's, the beautiful guest house I discovered early on but in a roundabout way, and to which I will return, at their invitation, every time I come back.
But of course one day I will be here for good. Being ill has some advantages; I have been listening to Canadian radio-the great advantage in Toronto is that it is in English! While I used to enjoy struggling with French radio at home or in Paris, at least I can concentrate all my energies on adapting to the different culture! And I have been reclining in a really beautiful room, complete with a lovely desk which I have been happily writing on each evening.
The guests have been nice, occasionally a bit of a mixed bag, part of the experience. The people who came for the Film Festival have yielded to tourists, old timers, and people who have their elderly relatives in the neighbourhood.
So its so long for now to Susan in her Ten Editions Bookshop, one of the best anywhere, Gabriel in the Joy Internet Cafe, and my friends on Walmer road. Also to the nice girl working in the superior tea shop on bloor, where I met the charming and unusual Jewish elderly lady who said: 'I became myself when I came to live here in Toronto.'
I hope too, to add new dimensions to the self I have know for nearly 57 years. To mellow in this interesting town, and to find new ways of expressing myself and relating to others.
Next entry in England!
Love and Shalom
Sister Gila
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Have a good journey.
God bless. Barbara
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