Keeping Traditions Alive
I grew up hearing that if something is written down, it becomes real. Official. Permanent. But I have also watched a man in his seventies teach a nine year old how to hold a pan…
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I grew up hearing that if something is written down, it becomes real. Official. Permanent. But I have also watched a man in his seventies teach a nine year old how to hold a pan…
The food import bill hit $7.3 billion last year. That number gets repeated a lot. In the news, in budget speeches, in the kind of panels where people use phrases like "value chain optimization."
The lizard on the kitchen wall has been still for seven minutes. I know because I checked the clock above the sink when I first noticed him. His body is the colour of wet concrete.…
The tax threshold is the first problem. Informal vendors do not operate without records because they are disorganized. They operate just below registration thresholds deliberately. There is a number. Stay under it and the tax…
Behind me, a woman scrolls through WhatsApp, pausing on a voice note and replaying it with the phone close to her ear. You can hear the faint spill of someone promising delivery by Thursday.
I sit with the robot for an hour. Alone. I press the yellow button until I have heard every phrase. It takes eleven minutes. Some repeat. There are not twelve. There are seven. They said…
I started noticing it in small ways. The way he never carried anything far from the chest. The way the floor stayed mostly empty even though the room was full. A kind of hovering. As…
There is a small detail that tends to stay with people who ride long enough. The inside of a helmet smells different after twelve minutes than it does after two. That is not a statistic.…
It started with a bag of tomatoes. Not the kind wrapped in plastic with a barcode already waiting for a scanner. These were loose, still carrying a thin film of dust from wherever they had…
The humidity in St. James always feels heavier under the fluorescent lights of a bar that hasn’t changed its floor tiles since the nineties. I found a stool near the back, where the air from…
We have spent the last decade trying to remove people from services. Self checkout lanes, automated calls, chatbots that promise instant answers. The logic is simple. Faster, cheaper, scalable.
The language around grooming has softened over the years. Routines are framed as care, as restoration, as something owed to oneself. And sometimes that is true. There is a real difference between washing your face…