Old and new Toronto
Sunday, May 29th, 2011 10:56 amLess ambitious this year than last, and with much worse weather, I intended to keep my Doors Open viewing to a church and a synagogue only. There's also a Buddhist temple very close to my house, but I read a bit on the background of the sect that runs it, and um no I think not. Doctrinal splits are not what I'm in this for.
So yesterday I'm tooling along the tree-lined Annex streets near where I grew up, and there by the Women's Art Association is a book sale. Good books, three for $5. The woman tempted me and I did buy, and then went to look at the house because that too was part of the tour, and of course normally I'd never go into a place like that. In all the years I've walked past it, starting with high school, I've never known if it's a club or a gallery, and my innate 'they don't want me here' mental reflex works to keep me from going in and asking.
( It's a bit of both )
So yesterday I'm tooling along the tree-lined Annex streets near where I grew up, and there by the Women's Art Association is a book sale. Good books, three for $5. The woman tempted me and I did buy, and then went to look at the house because that too was part of the tour, and of course normally I'd never go into a place like that. In all the years I've walked past it, starting with high school, I've never known if it's a club or a gallery, and my innate 'they don't want me here' mental reflex works to keep me from going in and asking.
( It's a bit of both )
