Elijah Dunham-Jasich

Brighter side: Joy and a heron

By: Elijah Dunham-Jasich, SFU Student I find most of my Burnaby campus joy in myopic fashion. The AQ’s single-paned windows and their accompanying “be heat aware” posters bring me joy. It’s here where the optimism of an architectural vision long-gone meets the cost-cutting necessities of this moment. I chuckle.  I don’t find joy in sitting for hours in heat-(in)efficient bodily discomfort (my hands sweat, and I take notes with a pen and a notebook). However, breaks from this allow me to walk outside and breathe in cold air — a joy in relation to the prior discomfort.  Multiple cold breaths…

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