This sign hangs at the entrance to a subway station, inside after one has proceeded through the ticket turn style. It appears comical, how does someone stealing your purse or lifting your wallet, set off the light to begin flashing? The mezzanine, referred to in the sign, just happens to be around a long corner …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
Surreal
Boarded the bus at 7:20 pm on a weekend night. The bus had been travelling for a few miles by the time it reached me, but there were no other passengers on it when I entered the front door. Felt like a movie: either I was about to fly away, just the driver and I, …
Walmart In case you missed this:
How taxpayers subsidize Walmart: Walmart is the largest private employer in the US – and has the most workers on public assistance. Since 2007, the company shifted from regular shifts to flexible shifts, a change labor activists said was designed to force full-time workers to downgrade their status to part-time, so they would not qualify …
More Spring
Can you see in the tree photo, the black-still-asleep-tree in the foreground and the bright, blooming one behind it?
The Price
of having one’s small apartment painted. Chaos for a week. Can’t find a thing, the bed is covered, but decided to spare you that visual. However, good news, have come out the other side happy to report, and the new interior is well worth the week of agony.
Walmart
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Columbia
Was again at Columbia. This time at night. A stately college campus is a beautiful sight to behold. It is always clear to me to see how persons become hooked on being in such an atmosphere, it breathes, it somehow is alive.This campus, right in the City. Passed a coed wearing a sweatshirt with the …
Signs of Spring
Seemingly against all odds, the trees and bulbs come out of the ground in response to the warmer weather, the sun and the nourishing rain. Every year they do it again. It is amazing to see, against the background of stone, and city and hardscape. Hope springs with spring.
Every Time Catches My Breath
Walking toward 42nd Street last night, after my performance, thinking about my need for picture hanging materials when to my left between the curb and the traffic, I first saw the police car; following along, to the three policemen in a semi-circle around one man. He was standing with his hands behind his back, and …
Homeless Women
When I see a homeless woman, I can not help but wonder if she is someone’s mother, wife, sister, daughter.