Down to the Lakeshore, up the Don River to Edwards Gardens, tooled along The Bridle Path, back down the Don through to Sunnybrook Park, Leaside, then through Riverdale.
Last night was the last night and we had a full turnout. The ice was getting slow, heavy near the end. It was uptempo, just the same. short shifts. Black won. But I was on white, a last minute trade, to even the numbers.
We have a six week layoff. Then summer hockey. July and August. Nothing nicer than a cold rink on a hot summer’s night. In the meantime, there is the dry land training.
“the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.
The wikipedia article goes on:
By definition, psychogeography combines subjective and objective knowledge and studies. Debord struggled to stipulate the finer points of this theoretical paradox, ultimately producing “Theory of the Dérive” in 1958, a document which essentially serves as an instruction manual for the psychogeographic procedure, executed through the act of dérive
Derive: an aimless walk…follows the whim of the moment… a drift.
French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to try and convince readers to revisit the way they looked at urban spaces. Rather than being prisoners to their daily route and routine, living in a complex city but treading the same path every day, he urged people to follow their emotions and to look at urban situations in a radical new way. This led to the notion that most of our cities were so thoroughly unpleasant because they were designed in a way that either ignored their emotional impact on people, or indeed tried to control people through their very design. The basic premise of the idea is for people to explore their environment (”psychogeography”) without preconceptions, to understand their location, and therefore their existence.
Like the earlier flâneur, the Situationist dérive was a general reaction, manifested in the shadow of the Parisian landscape, as the casual stroller of flânerie moved towards the more directed urban pedestrian
Hm.
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The key here is: dog food is put out for the racoons in the evening of the night before the next day’s garbage pickup. a preventative measure. it works. the raccoons still turn over garbage cans on the street but only the garbage cans of the neighbours. the raccoons oblige us and honour us by leaving our garbage alone.
