How I Imagine It All Ended

This is #53 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk, hike, and explore in my local community. My neighbourhood: Lafarge Lake with its running track and sports fields far right-centre, with Pinecone Burke Provincial Park above it, and the Pacific Coast mountains behind that. Running diagonally lower left to centre is Hoy Creek and its ‘linear park’ trails, with Westwood Plateau above it. When I wander around my neighbourhood, or hang out in the local cafés, I hear many snippets of conversations, and observe lots of bits and pieces of things happening, where I never get to hear, or see, their resolution or outcome, as I continue on my walkabout. But there is something in the makeup of the human brain, it seems, that requires us to try to “make sense” of these fragments by imagining what might have come next and how it might have all ended. So I’ve started collecting some of these fragments from my local community…