My apartment, and the garden, are just a block away from the busy intersection of Bathurst and Dupont, with its diesely bus lanes and truck traffic, but, barring an emergency-vehicle siren or an atypical outbreak of energy from the body-shop workers across the alley, the garden is calm, even meditative.

Pipes with idioglot reeds (not separate pieces of cane, but cut in the tube itself) have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas.

[…] he is cisqueer, grew up in New York City, and is a first-generation Maltese American.

Vision testing can be accomplished with either a counter model vision tester or wall-mounted eyecharts, along with the Ishihara system color blind test charts.