A Lesson From Oliver

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would come the most striking sensation of all: the smell of fresh
dew on the grass - I think the terms "exhilarating" and "intoxicating" were
coined by someone who'd just taken their first breath of northern morning
air (though they likely did so between 6 and 7 a.m. when one is better
primed to wax poetic and the passage of sensory information from one's
nostrils to the brain is not so hopelessly clogged - as is the case at 4
a.m.).

All these sensations I can fully appreciate only now, in retrospect
(since at this moment I assure you it is not 4 a.m.).

At four o'clock that morning of June 26, 1979, as I trudged across
the acre-sized lawn to the old shed outside my parents' modest rural home -
situated along the English Bay sideroad, overlooking the secluded,
sparkling waters of Blue-Pine Lake, some six miles west of the small
tourist town of Thistle, Ontario - the only sensation permeating my groggy
consciousness was the bite of that long wet grass seeping through ...

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There was the blue-black sky hanging overhead like some bottomless,
gravity-defying lake; there was the ghostly grey strip of gravel tenuously
marking my pathway; and there were the two ominous black walls, shapeless
and unbroken, flanking either side of the road. The cool air licked at my
face and began to wash the throbbing numbness from my head. It also
cleared my eyes and I began to distinguish for the first time the
individual trees - mostly birch, poplar and pines of several variety - of
which those unending roadside walls were built.

I was beginning to wake up.

Accordingly, my thoughts progressed to the next stage of their
traditional morning jog which took them ...

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