Toronto the Good: Spruces up: G20 Summit is coming to town ... meantime last week we had an earthquake

Toronto is rockin 'n rollin' 'tween the arrival of Finance Ministers and entourages, some heads of govt, for the G2 Summit. Preps became controversial when the bill for an artificial lake at the Summit's location was reported as costing $20 Million Canadian, or was that $20 Billion? Or was it American dollars?

Toronto the Good, by Owlbie Scowlie

I was standing on the stair to the Second Floor, leaning against the springy wood bannister rail when I felt it. My body was shaking as the rail absorbed the unseen shaking of the whole house. The rail absorbed the differential between my body's environment shaking and my elbow on the rail, my leaning arm, and my whole body swaying ever so subtly to retain its balance. Something like that.

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