IN the HEAT

Wednesday

June 10th 2020

Noon

 8:30 p.m.
Manhattan is still muggy and hot, but there's wind. I had a walk about completely forgetting my on line Zendo meet! My proximity to the Precinct keeps me up sometimes. They are out there all night and talking loud. Well, no excuse for missing what I truly care about. So, here's what I saw.
Above

 Westward View

Lovely young Laural on 22nd Street

 Exquisite Perfume

 Rules

 The wheelchair woman has gathered friends

Hope they're friends.

Love this man feeding sparrows

 ~*~

June 11th
Muggy day and dark

I spent it mostly passed out in front of the fan.
Change Came after Zoom Meeting with my Zendo and
a guided meditation led me through a forest to a meadow.

 8:30 p.m.
Our sun appears to sink in the West
I am at Ease

HOT and HUMID
Using my A/C-just the Fan
first time this year

 ~*~

June 12th
7 a.m.
Humidity has lifted
thank goodness

Lovely afternoon

 I returned home at 6 to find workers setting up a huge scaffolding across the street at he 13th Precinct, accompanied by drilling and clanging.
(what fresh hell is this?)

Got set up anyway for the 'Wisdom Sangha' Zoom session with my Zendo, closed window and set fan to muffle the noise, checked in and it was all working fine. Sensei Chodo was reading Stanley Kunitz "The Layers" when SUDDENLY AT&T CUT ME OFF texting 'you have used all your high speed data' - DRAT, Foiled again. My cell phone mentor 'Alex' is not available and it is he who must add data. I left him a telephone message. Well, I'll just meditate on my own.
7 p.m.

9:30 p.m.
The workers are still clanging, banging and slamming over at the 13th Precinct. It's got a tin roof reinforced with 2X4s and runs the whole length of the Precinct (my front 'yard), Huge green painted plywood panels are next.

What's this about and who ordered it?

 Who thinks so little of ordinary citizen neighbors to be working late like this?

Not just me, but many others on the front and next door to them: elders, and kids. Looks like at least another hours work.

10:30 UPDATE

still at it...add another hour or more

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MIDNIGHT

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SILENCE

June 13th

6:30 a.m.