Options: Scream, yell, curse, curse and yell again. The train has just entered the station and is pulling to a stop. There you are at the turnstile, swipe the card in the card reader. The train door opens. You bump up against the turnstile, expecting it to flip over and it catches the top of …
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Early Art
These art pieces are made of natural herbs. They hang in a Chinese pharmacy. Don’t you think this is how art started. along with drawings on cave walls?
A Fall Blanket
of leaves
No Good Deed…
Tuesday morning the weather turned cold, and the City awoke to big white snow flakes floating to the ground. My good-sam mode kicked in and I decided to gift a homeless person a warm pair of wool blend tights. At the bottom of the 4th Street station, the very bottom, is where I, as previously …
11-11
and so today is 11-11 and at 11 tonight King Carnival will be chosen in countries where that matters.
Dead of Night
Passed by these blossoms in the dead of night, and for some reason was astounded to see them in full bloom. Don’t know what I expected, if I thought they would close up at night, as some do. There they stood in beauty.
Choice of Bird
For those vegans among us, or just plain chocoholics, this bird stands about 15″ tall, made of delicious dark chocolate.
Justice…
…of sorts. It has been ‘sitting’ with me, the $40. swindle; so today was the day. I had to be near Canal Street, again, so decided to confront the perfume seller. I walked into his shop, it was easy to remember where it was, and handed him the perfume box with bottle inside and said …
The Choice
Bundles of wood for wood-burning fireplaces like mine. You see the size of the bundle; easily carried home. Price $9-11. Think: might be just as ‘inexpensive’ to roll up the dollars and burn them, and they are less bulky to transport.
Going Postal
Always use a PO Box, as it has proven over the years to be the safest/most direct access to my mail. Recently was out of the city and returned to find the doors to the building of the Post Office bent and the glass shattered. And my held mail inside. Of course it was no …