After 13 hours of straight physical labor, I reminded myself how gloriously exhausting physical labor is. As I had electricity I could listen to Keb Mo sing. ‘Government Cheese’ . ‘All She Wants to do is Dance’. ‘Don’t Shave Your Legs..’. When I wasn’t listening to KM was listening to the course material for Permaculture …
Monthly Archives: May 2017
The Local Newspaper
began an article” the last 5 days have been full of exciting new challenges and beautiful views”. i thought it was about me, until i read further and it is a local climber – sort of – describing his ascent of Everest. So back to my life: After the car repair, as I was more …
Another New Best Friend
The electric returned, made the audition tape, but could not send it via email. Late as it was, asked if i could upload it to Vimeo. That was acceptable. According to Vimeo, my upload from where I am living, for a 2 minute video would take seven hours. That’s right. 7 hours. I believed it …
The Audition
When the electricity came back on, albeit briefly, I fired off a note to the CD of the film for which I had been asked to tape an audition and explained that not only had I moved out of the City, but that the place to where I had moved had the next day lost …
Explain This!
Drop in the forest, one match, or a cigarette and a fierce forest fire ensues. In my fireplace with dried, seasoned wood, it takes a box of kitchen matches and the Sunday edition of the NYT to get a fire started. I don’t get it.
More
Where did I leave off…if I miss a day, a world of events happens and I don’t know if I can catch up. I’ll go back to the moment of sitting in the warm waiting room of the automotive repair place. I am enjoying the heat, the resident puppy access to emails and my second …
Well, They Think It Will Be On By Friday AM. This is Wednesday!
Here I am in the beautiful Catskills. The move was like greased lightning, as smooth as butter in other words, there were no hitches. One would think it a no-brainer moving from a 1 bedroom City apartment to a house. A house with terrific furniture, bedrooms and bath rooms and closets and a basement. I …
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When It’s Over!
Thank you for reading along on this journey. It has been a joy to Chronicle this City.