Gord wrote of his interesting writing experience with this one: "The cellphone half of the story I wrote on the ferry heading home from The Gas Station recording studio on Toronto Island one day. I got on my bike and recited what I had written to Dale’s answering machine as I headed east along Queen’s Quay." Gord also has a daughter named Willow, which may or may not have influenced this number.

"...Charles Comfort and Mimico creek."

From a now defunct war art site: Charles Comfort (1900-1994) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and moved to Winnipeg in 1912. In 1939, while on staff at the University of Toronto, he was a cadet officer with the University Officers Training Corps. In 1943 he was appointed Senior Official War Artist. Once overseas, he was sent to England, Italy, Germany and northwestern Europe. In 1946 he returned to his job in the Department of Art and Archaeology at the University of Toronto. In 1958 Mount Allison University awarded him an Honourary Doctor of Laws. From 1960 to 1965 he was Director of the National Gallery of Canada. Following his retirement, Charles Comfort continued to put brush to canvas."

Mimico Creek is a Toronto area waterway with it's headwaters in Mississauga, just west of Toronto. It crosses through downtown Toronto at Bloor and Islington near a subway station.