湖邊小雷-lakeshore
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A Bridge at the Hamilton Bay ( 上 )
- Free writing, edited version, by: - 一語湖邊
Finished Date: Sunday, January 13, 2008
There is an old style bridge at the lake. I like watching it when ever I have a moment, from my working place, -2020lakeshore, at Spencer Park, Burlington Just at the beach of the lake Ontario. Don’t know when exactly it was build, but I am quite sure it has some history, only from the look of it. It’s brutally beautiful, all steel, heavy, and lined up straight.
Bridges are stuffs I love to take nine ‘takes’ at a time into my ‘Sony-cyber-shot’ , -my best ‘ buddy ’ on trip. Like all the old buildings in the city, nice scenes in the peaceful country, Bridges give people same amount of imaginary; as poems and songs to me at least, bury me into deep thinking.
I like to watch it when it is foggy, in raining days, bright, or with beautiful sunshine out there. It’s kind of mysterious, when it winds away the fog, as if loosening the “Sari” – the white lacy stuff covering a woman from Indian. It looks so different when winds pull it out from behind the fog. When in the morning, sun rises, gorgeous, the golden sunlight painted it with golden ray. It becomes a bridge of gold. When the sun falls behind the hills, I can see the lights of traffic crossing the bridge, slowly it moves like living creature, and twinkling in the dark sky south-west-bound, from Toronto, Burlington, towards Hamilton.
Last winter I was in a program called “Bridge” too, I love it. But I don’t know why, my mind always escaped from the class, it came out from my deep conscience, I would imagine myself standing on the bridge, looking down at the lake, watching the birds in the sky, or the people on the summer beach.
Oriental people always use Bridge as “connection” in their language to mean the liaisons of something vital. Visiting friends is a must in many cultures of kind; it’s in human’s nature both East and West. At almost New-year, the new PM of Japan visited China out of diplomatic courtesy, right before the New Year 2008.
He spoke to the students, a diplomatic routine, at the “Oxford” of China – Beijing University. I enjoyed his saying: “if my father had had built a suspension bridge, many years ago, between two great nations, I would have been building a Steel Bridge between China and Japan now”
- 約翰雷客霄 Burlington,Ca
To be continued
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thanks, bridge could be many as it to me, like blogs.
take care.johnlakeshore