If you were a working person in the place where I grew up, you probably spent years of your life riding the Expo Line to & from some job in downtown Vancouver. You probably saw the concrete bricks arranged on the roof of a particular house, located between Edmonds and 22nd Street Skytrain Stations, spelling out some writing in English: “ISLAM READ? QURAN“
Below the Skytrain line is a cycling path dubbed the ‘BC parkway’, and in February it’s quite nice to walk this stretch from Edmonds back to sχʷayməɬ (a.k.a. the part of New West where I live). On a clear afternoon you can track the position of the sun as it slides below the mountains: proof that this river basin is still one of the most beautiful places in the world.