🛫 #goodbyeottawa #calgary #flyyyc . This is the last photo I took of Calgary when I left 5-months ago. It was winter. Our plane had just been de-iced and we were preparing to be carried off into an unknown future. This photo carries with it a lot of emotion for me. I remember bring really worried about the cats who were stowed away in the cargo. Calgary had been our home for many years (in my case, 17-years) and this was a huge change for us. It was heartbreaking to say goodbye 💔. . Sometimes things do not work out as we plan. A few short weeks after moving to Ottawa, the country would be placed in lockdown as a vicious #coronavirus emerged and a global pandemic surged? Being in a new city and starting new job during #coronaapocalypse was not easy. It was hard being confined within the walls of my tiny apartment in Ottawa far away from people/places that feel like home. In that sense, it has been an exceptionally cruel and difficult year -- with much turmoil, pain, and fear -- a great test of our individual and collective forbearance. . I am leaving Ottawa and returning to Calgary in a few days. I am sad that I never really got to see or experience this city in a real way. I missed out on a lot when #Covid shut down almost everything and placed heavy restrictions on how we socialize. I truly regret that I wasn't able to get to know the city and the people better and that I am leaving having experienced very little of what Ottawa has to offer. . Moving back to Calgary feels like what I need to do for many reasons. The world is still a very uncertain and scary place. The Calgary I left behind will not be the same one I return to. I am not sure what the future holds for me and find myself, yet again making a leap of faith into the great unknown ... hoping that this time I will find "something solid to stand on" or that I will be "taught how to fly" (Edward Teller). #goinghome _________ "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." — T. S. Eliot . . . . . . #capturecalgary #calgaryairport #travelphotography #westjet #loveyyc #airplane #travel #calgaryalberta (at YYC Calgary International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCijxpzJYeC/?igshid=g03ghxqjujgi
