Thursday Report

Had an errand today that took me to the downtown core for the first time in months, and my ideas about what constitutes “a lot of people” have evidently shifted, because while I knew I was seeing dozens where I used to see hundreds? Some part of my brain kept trying to parse it as “the buildings all got bigger.”

Also more ornate and detailed.

With older buildings, the upper stories over the shop fronts seemed to loom in a way they hadn’t before. I kept asking myself if brick had been sandblasted recently, or if a sign sheathing the upper windows had been taken down, but I think it’s just a matter of not having been by recently: I’m now perceiving once-familiar buildings as complete objects instead of tuning out the parts that aren’t open to the public.