The Danforth Speaks
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
If I can’t see it, does it exist? For me, vision isn’t just a sense–it’s the key to remembering, organizing, and feeling balanced. Written by Alicia Murray I was in the car when it happened. I’d been driving for less than ten minutes when I realized I didn’t know where I was driving from. A hazy image of my partner danced in my brain, but I couldn’t grasp it, clear it, cement his face in my mind. In a desperate attempt to remember what he looked like, I flitted from one thought to the next until I was half convinced he was a figment of my imagination. There are few…
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Finding Myself on the Streets I Never Walked
Some places change you without asking permission first. They slip into your life quietly, without warning, until one day you realize you are no longer the person you were before. They settle into the spaces you didn’t know needed filling, rearranging you from the inside out. And then, one day, you look back and see it clearly—the place where you stopped being afraid of your own life.
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Learning, Off the Danforth
The house is quiet in the mornings. Completely silent, save for the low hum of the refrigerator and the creak of my footsteps as I walk across the floor. The only light outside is from the streetlights; dawn is yet to come. As the rest of Victoria lie asleep in their beds, I make my much-needed 5 A.M. matcha before settling in front of my computer. This is the morning routine of a Centennial College student—specifically, one in the online publishing program, tuning in from Vancouver Island.Â
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Dear Danforth, Leash Your Dogs
As the owner of a grumpy Shih Tzu weighing a whopping fourteen pounds, it is terrifying when an off-leash dog begins to approach him while we’re walking. Whether it be a tiny terrier, a large Labrador, or any breed in between, my dog, Stitch, is not friendly and does not welcome these unrestrained guests very kindly. And then that other dog tends to retaliate to Stitch’s animosity by either barking or biting. In this hostile interaction between domesticated beasts, I’m tethered to my dog by a leash, but where is the other dog’s owner?
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The Luminous Veil
This article contains discussion of suicide. Reader discretion is advised. I spent a lot of time on the bridge commonly known as the Bloor Viaduct. I passed through it twice a day, 5 days a week for 4 years. It has high-wire bars 5 metres tall, preventing anybody from getting close to the edge. It prevents me from getting close to the edge. It arches high above the trees, so that birds can see its span of 494 metres of concrete and steel, 40 metres above the Don Valley. It would be a nice view going down. I think about the exhilaration that would follow the cold wind in my…
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All Signs Point to Yes
Have you ever mulled something over for so long that when you finally made a decision, it had nothing to do with the pros or cons, but was instead based off of the result of an arbitrary coin toss?
