Remember a while back, the story of the young woman with baby, begging on the subway? The comment was that she was nicely dressed and didn’t look distressed in the least, but she had an accent and a cardboard sign saying she needed money for herself and her baby. Well, low and behold, on the …
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What a Moment
Last night, attended at the New School – a packed auditorium – the screening of the Documentary: Do The Math. The film was so well received, it got a standing O. The film is well crafted and the message is urgent. Check out the film, the film makers and the message at 350.org. It was …
Seemingly… well unrelated
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 …
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
Too good not to post. Copy this to your browser and read the best news of the day!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9546569/Walmart-fails-to-crack-New-York-City.html
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.