"Where are you from?" A simple question, with a simple and succint answer.
"Oh, I'm from Wingham, a small farming town in southwestern Ontario, about 2 hours northwest Toronto. I actually grew up on a farm, so I'm a total throwback!" | ||
"Well, my ancestors came to canada in the early 1800's from Britain. Mostly English and Scottish, with a bit of Irish and French tossed in for flavour. Definitely northern European - sunshine and I are not friends." | ||
"I work at Agfa HealthCare in Waterloo, as a Knowledge Management Specialist, which is one of those great titles that didn't exist 10 years ago and no one knows what it means. I like to describe it as 'making sure the right information is available to the right people at the right time.' But really it means I sit at a computer all day." | ||
"I live in Guelph with my husband and three year old. It's a total nuts and berries town, very hippy granola. Great city though, small town feel with city amenities. And just far enough away from family to avoid pop-ins." | ||
"I'm so happy to be Canadian. My ancestors could have ended up anywhere! I mean, all the stuff everyone talks about is great - healthcare, personal safety, blah blah blah. But also tectonically safe, with BC being the exception. I can't imagine living somewhere that the earth occasionally tries to shake you off. Air hurts my face for 3 months of the year, sure! So humid you can barely breath for another 3 months, no problem! World trying to shake you off like an ant at a picnic? No thank you." | "Clearly, I'm from TV-land... or at least I spend a great deal of time there. All the best people are fictional, don't you know?" |
So simple. (People are complex.)
So succinct. (Layers of hidden meaning.)And you think you know me, know where I came from, know where I've been, know where I'm going.
You think you know what matters to me.But you don't know me at all.
I'm coming from a place deeply hidden.
A place you'll never see.
Like the elephant,
Your touch only reaches parts of me.
and you're like me,
and I'm like you,
We think.