4 July 2019 – While up on the North Shore, following the Spirit Trail, I briefly and slightly detoured to walk along the Wisdom Wall on the rear façade of Bodwell High School.
Bodwell is an international boarding school, and the Wall is indeed a wall …
with life-sized silhouettes and quotes from a suitably global array of wise people, ranging from Confucius to Terry Fox to Lord Byron, David Suzuki, and Chief Dan George.
And Socrates.
I hope wisdom also begins in appreciating the ridiculous! That’s not a dunce cap adorning Socrates’ head, and nobody has awarded him a white feather — those are reflections of a traffic cone and my T-shirt, respectively.
bluebrightly
/ 4 July 2019Happy fourth – sorry, belated Happy Canada Day. 😉 There was a float in today’s local Independence Day parade that celebrated our sister cities, and one was Victoria, BC, so we celebrated Canada today too. 🙂
icelandpenny
/ 4 July 2019Well, Happy Fourth to you! Happy First-and-Fourth to both of us… I didn’t know you were twinned with Victoria, how lovely a float celebrated that fact… I didn’t see any parade anywhere, but I was out & about with a great-nephew on the 1st, and we came home with whopping great red maple leaf “tattoos” on our arms…
bluebrightly
/ 5 July 2019🙂 There’s also a Japanese sister city….but Victoria makes sense, if only becasue the ferry leaves from here. Otherwise, outside of climate I suspect the places don’t share that much!
icelandpenny
/ 7 July 2019I’m ashamed to say I can’t name Vancouver’s sister cities — yes, more than one, and yes, Asian in the mix, but no, I can’t write out the list.
bluebrightly
/ 8 July 2019I wouldn’t have known either if I hadn’t seen the parade. 😉