The Canucks put Winnipeg on the map but long before that there were little boys like myself who shot the puck around dozends of frozen rinks in that cold god forsaken City.
I was flying into Winnipeg at night not too many years back from a job in the north when I got my camera out as we were approaching that city, the playground of my youth. I was pondering what was so special about Winnipeg and thoughts of hiking to Old Man's creek and seeing a Ruddy duck wrapped around a power line and another memory of a Great Grey owl and AG Lawrence the president Emeritus of the Naturalists club came out with me to take its pic.
He's had a stroke and was bouncing from curb to curb along Wolsely, the same street my brother Dougy was killed on when he hit an Elm tree years ago. This was just a week after he got a draft notice from the Winnipeg Jets. He got one same time from the Minnesota North Stars. I was thinking Hocky and Bro when the plane took a dip in a wind pocket and my camera clicked.
Well, I'll be damned if every light in Winnipeg hadn't turned into a hockey stick and I thought, serendipity, you just made a fine memorial for my Brother Dougy Jyrkkanen.
Jormwankenobe
Copyright 2008 J. Jyrkkanen
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