no computer for many, many days.

so i will write.
Vancouver is a strange place .. it is all new, and different.
for example.
this city has no government funded recycling program?
for real.
at the end of the day, a homeless man comes to the cafe and collects our bottles and he drops them off at the bottle depot station.
bums are always in the dumpsters and public garbage's searching for plastic bottles and cans and anything they can deposit.
in a way the city has employed these guys to do the dirty work for them, bums in this town work for their change/next meal/hot dose
and that is the strange thing,
everyone just rolls along in this relationship, the store owners, the bums even the public office, everyone works this out in a totally symbiotic way that ends up costing everyone involved so much less.
have i moved to a smaller city.
a more trusting city?
the Canadian utopia i keep imagining as northern california in the 50s?
my sentimental mind inquires.