From mountain peak to street level...

So I'll get to some good and proper SFS-certified blogging tomorrow-today being Canadian Thanksgiving and all I'm all but off the grid all day.

I thought this shot would be a good placeholder for today though, in case you were visiting looking for a Monday 'fix'.

That's the 'fam' up at the peak of Whistler.  You can see the actual peak marker in the top right hand corner.

We rode the gondola, twenty-five minutes, to the top.  Had lunch.  The kids threw snow at each other.  I took some shots.

T'was a good day.

We're now in Yaletown in a tiny condo right in the heart of it all.  Yesterday was sunny and gorgeous--we spent most of it walking.  Today is more typical; we are a cloud.  The mist/rain is coming sideways.

You should see the stares we get walking the sidewalks of this most chic of neighborhoods.  It's like the aliens have landed or something.  Great conversation starter though.  We must have had seven or eight cordial conversations with strangers yesterday, just because of the babies.

"Are they all yours?"

Every ten minutes.

"Yup they're ours."

Then once we had them in bed, Niki and I sat down for some Sunday night Thai (our tradition) and, at nine o'clock, turned to channel 10 and there I was, ranting about immigration and justice and dignity and strangers in a strange land.

My show was on, and we got to watch it on a 50 inch flat-screen.

It looked good.

It was interesting.

My show in its home market.

Which leads to the very small and simple point for today: whatever it is that you do (whether you're a preacher or a filmmaker or a government worker or a  __________ ) make sure you do whatever it takes to experience your work where it 'lives', meaning, go to where the average people are and consume with them that thing that you create for them.

So go listen to someone else preach.  Watch other people's shows and films.  Sample another restaurant and get ideas for yours.  Go hang with a family bigger or smaller than yours and watch how they raise their kids.  Go spend a day in another department.  Watch another photographer work.  See how he works the mitre saw.

Whatever it is, make sure you take a moment to get to street level, and sample your work there.

And if you find that what you're doing is connecting...

Be thankful.

T