It's over. Gaddafi is gone. Toronto celebrates!
This morning, while driving to work and trying to absorb the fact of Gaddafi being gone -- gone from Libya, gone from this life -- I turned off the radio, and pressed the CD button. There was a CD inside that I hadn't played in many years; I'd grabbed it the other day looking for something different. It was an old Randy Newman CD, and when it spun up, it played his song "Better off Dead".
Yes, I thought, the world, and Libya are indeeed better off that he's dead.
Tonight, the Toronto Libyan community & supporters gathered to celebrate together at Yonge-Dundas Square, which has hosted so many rallies for Libya. It was, in fact, eight months to the day after that first rally back on Feb. 20. There was a much different feel tonight.
One photo from tonight; one from Feb. 20. (Photos from some of the earlier rallies are at www.photos.libyatoronto.com).
