Pape Village: Family dinner organized amongst hectic schedules. Diningroom table now moved in front of fireplace, next to small livingroom on oddly shape main floor. New feline of one week is a younger energetic black cat still adjusting to adoption. (Toronto)

Tapestry: Asian jazz fusion #DennimQuack led by #DennisKwok, assembling #JayYoo guitar, #HiroSuzuki guitar, #JenLo keys, #CarloSantoDomingo #curlow #bass, #JonCatanus drums, #DanielleSum percussion for gig. Featuring music of 1970s Japanese band Casiopea. https://t.co/b9NljVxyO5

Tapestry: Asian jazz fusion band with identity of #,DuckSociety led by #MinhHoang keys assembles #PatrickSmith sax, #JayYoo guitar, #JenLo keys, #CarloSantoDomingo bass, #JonChiong-Catanus, #MilesJohnson #milesjmusic percussion+sampler for gig. (Toronto) https://t.co/IyHkd1nxom

Evergreen Brick Works: First sLab Technique Workshop, three hours with Method Collective on Pacing for Grief.  Included @ziyanhossain, #FranRawlings, #CallaLee, @gooder_goods, @SamahKamalmaz, #AlisonClarke, #AileenNandy, @zaid___khan, @garysmetcalf, @DanEng, #JuliusLindsay.

Evergreen Brick Works: Pilot Systems Outing to @space_for_grief met inside, then outside, concluded with body movement dance led by #DJMeTime.  In space outside of classroom, each participant added an extra step to the sequence.  Not the usual #SystemsThinking Ontario style

Wok & Roast Restaurant: Introductory lunch with @garysmetcalf to meet @aupward and @XformByDesign. Stitching together variety of journeys in systems approaches in practice. Discussing trend of more graduate courses being switched from on-campus to online. (Toronto)

Magic Taste of China: On time flights enabled casual Xinjiang cuisine for sLab discussion with #PeterScott, #GaryMetcalf, @zaid___khan, #DavidIng, @SamahKamalmaz, #RobertoPires, @gregvan. Detailed history on Banathy Conversations, should start formal planning for May (Toronto)

Centre for Social Innovation: Second @csiTO Constellation Summit, reframing as Collaborative Infrastructure Organization. Groups of 2 becoming 4 to generate proposals for larger clusters on where self-interests can converge on collective impact. First event since vacating Annex.

OCAD University: Guest speakers #MauriceGordon musician, #AnnaRoseTran designer, #LukeAnderson engineer @StopGapRamp, on Colliding of Social Enterprise and Creative(s) Sector, mod by #PeterScott. Related journeys of businesses and current challenges. Class teams 149 students

Evergreen Brick Works: Panel #ErikaByres @MPGC_GTA, #ConnieEllis @EllisDon, #SusanBlight @YorkUniversity, #JuliusLindsay #PrismaticProject, moderator @ziyanhossain #MethodCollective on Hidden Currents: How Grief Shapes Systems Around Us. #SpaceForGrief

Evergreen Brick Works: Welcome by #JohnMonahan of @MPGC_GTA to Hidden Currents: How Grief Shapes the Systems Around Us. Part of #GoodMourningFestival, #SpaceForGrief installation by #MethodCollective #FranRawlings, #CallaLee, @ziyanhossain

University of Toronto Art Centre: Snow fence #MichaelBelmore (2025) Turbulent Air / Turbulent Water made of steel and wood.  Shapes movement rather than stopping wind.  In background, #ArtHunter (2023) Controlled Burn at Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah mounds, prairie oak savannah.

U. Toronto Art Centre: Triptych of three digital prints, #BUSHGallery (#GabrielleLHirondelleHill, #PeterMorin, #Tanya Willard) (2014) Hashtag, (2014) The Possibility of an Eclipse of Colonialism, (2014) Rez-idency. Part of Earthwork exhibition, work we do with and for the earth

OCADU Graduate Gallery:  Yet untitled work-in-progress #TavleenLall (2025) glass sculptures mounted on wall, animated with video projection.  Master's thesis work explores glass-soul as eternal light, human form as vessel for inner journeys.  Part of #OpeningPortals collection.

OCADU Graduate Gallery: In dark room, yet untitled work-in-progress #LivQiu (2025) lighting stalk illuminates corner three-dimensionally. Group show of #OpeningPortals artworks towards master's theses. Short one-week appearance looks forward to future completion. (Toronto)

OCADU Graduate Programs: Visitiors to OCAD U Lab Crawl 2025 redirected to see sLab in room 711, new digs. We just had our first meeting there yesterday, so archives in storage yet to be moved in. Lots happening with reinvigoration activities in October and November. (Toronto)

OCADU Graduate Gallery:  Yet untitled work-in-progress #TavleenLall (2025) glass sculpture on wall, animated with video projection. Master's thesis work explores glass-soul as eternal light, with human form as vessel for inner journeys. Part of #OpeningPortals collection

The Doctor’s House: Rare occasion for family to dress up, for wedding in family of lifelong friends. Parents seated with associates of the robotic team, younger adults with peer their age. Delicious dinner dodging dietary restrictions, dancing after dark. (Kleinberg, Ontario)

The Doctor's House: Large sfoglia, + traditional stacked wedding cake, signals Italian-style wedding. Brought in by family, standard higher than venue. Original house built 1867 occupied by doctors, noted haunted, but maybe not the expanded banquet halls and chapel. (Kleinberg)

Brick Street Bakery Leslieville: At dusk, sign now Belinda's Bakeshop, storefront changed, windows blacked out, canopy lighting over sidewalk. Directions to MOAK, #MemoryOfAKiller, tv series #PatrickDempsey + #MichaelImperioli, remake 2022 movie starring #LiamNeeson. (Toronto)