These colorful Korean words hold knowledge and insights collected from people across Ontario. At public workshops, hundreds of participants decorated their words in Hangeul (the Korean writing system), and artist Ik-Joong Kang arranged their contributions into this vibrant mosaic. Kang added the outlines of traditional Korean porcelain vessels, linking everyday ideas to representations of balance, harmony, and history. This work celebrates knowledge of people and shares this collective wisdom, echoing the intended purpose of Hangeul as a script for all.

Yesterday, we were visited by UPS. I got some meds. This stereotypically fit deliveryman was attired in the standard brown summertime uniform, shorts with short sleeve shirt. Appropriate attire for the day’s temperature, especially for one so active, but unfortunately inappropriate for our cabin’s micro clime. Don’t get me wrong, it was warm enough, because I greeted him in shorts and a t-shirt too, but inappropriate because of the latest addition to our environment, mosquitoes. Up until yesterday, they were not bad. In fact, before this week, they were nonexistent, but the wind had died yesterday, and these newly hatched pests were voracious. We were both furiously swatting ourselves, all the while Anne yammered on obliviously with the kitchen door wide open. 🦟 😡 🦟

His first comments were about the road. He asked us who maintained the road, but what he was really asking was who isn’t maintaining it. He had just scratched up the paint of his UPS truck on all of the overgrown brush while driving down the quarter mile from pavement and he knew that the road only got worse the further you went. He didn’t mind that, but he is also a local volunteer fireman and had attended to the next-next-door cabin fire a couple of years back. The thought of scratching up his fire truck seemed to bother him more. His hint was clear, brush your road. By now, he was swatting up a storm, when he mentioned that West Nile virus had arrived. He said that four horses had died from the disease. At that point I fled inside and closed the door.