Showing posts with label Homelessness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homelessness. Show all posts

Friday, August 24, 2018

CLARITY through the HAZE

Monday
The Waxing moon almost Invisible
behind a cool, dense, damp Haze
Even though it's Politics
This Episode of the Late Show is Brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/embed/gUcGGVTme3w?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0

Tuesday
Sunshine came and went. I did fifty or more little domestic things around the apartment, made some changes to a drawing in process, cooked and prepped meals for several days and when the rain started again around midnight, I went for a neighborhood constitutional.
 
Holyhock Bush

 Sweet Mimosa Blooms

Gramercy Court on 22nd Street
~*~

Wednesday
Sun's Out
Though storms are on the way.

~*~

 Thursday
Made these to send to Rose Kelleher...
...she sent me five of her beauties to mail to remind folks to vote

Last blooms on the free flowers with petal memories

Trip to Trader Joe on 31st Street, where purchased 1/2 and 1/2, beans and a potato, then used their very clean rest stop before leaving

On a stretch of 2nd Avenue, many homeless men gather for safety

The Moon shines on all of us alike

*
 
~*~
 
Friday
When news of the wide world wearies
When my whirling spirit runs out of steam
I take to my bed for relief, let go of queries,
despairs and self pity, 'things aren't only just what they seem.'

"These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

-Shakespeare-

Meanwhile
Can anyone identify this artist of popular childrens stories? 
(A gift from Nancy Erisman )

???

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

SHELTER

Roaming the streets of this City in the dark I have always been fascinated by this building at 58 Rivington Street.
It used to be a Synagogue.
 It's a private residence with a cabin on the roof
 and a formidable entrance door.
Hale Gurland was among the aspiring artists, bohemians, and hippies who crowded Soho in the 1970s. From the small room he rented on Wooster Street, the Jewish sculptor and painter ventured out one day in 1973 to buy a pair of cheap shoes. On his way, he noticed a derelict synagogue with a “For Sale” sign at 58-60 Rivington, at the corner of Elridge, a scene he described in a magazine interview a couple of years ago: “People were going inside the building because the doors were out, junkies were shooting up. I walked in, and the place looked like Dresden after the bombs.”

By 1979, the recognition he had gained from his metalwork and iron creations enabled him to buy the abandoned house of worship and turn it into studios and residences for local artists. He had the interior fully revamped, but chose to leave the building’s still-beautiful facade mostly intact. I've written to him in hopes he might let me see the inside (there are some photos in the links), but he has few references on line and may wish to remain private. 

I doubt he will answer.
 ~*~
Speaking of Real Estate, while walking up towards Houston Street in a light drizzle I paused to shoot this shelter (without flash) and did not disturb the resident sleeping there.
I think about homelessness and the rapaciousness of real-estate interests a whole lot. There's a special police unit that "offers" to take homeless folks off the street to shelters or hospitals and they also police the shelters, but the homeless folks I talk to (and you may have seen some on several of my posts) tell me the shelters are awful.


https://youtu.be/tDolUXsEDeQ
LINKS
58 Rivington Street

Hale Gurland

Friday, June 16, 2017

SMOOTHING RIPPLES

Wednesday

Calming Chaos
Curing Crisis
Concentrating Concern
Focusing Concentration and Sharpening Perception
 *
NOW
*
We are only ever actually Living in the Moment
In the Moment Choices are Available
Two hours of Zen practice
(newyorkzenencenterenterforcontemplativecare.org)

Thursday
On a mission to pick up a blue-light-protective-screen delivered to a friend who has a door man down off Washington Square
"The Alamo"
The Old is Reflected on the New
Portal to Washington Mews
(dreams of living in a little house)
A resident with her wonderful rescue dogs
(I miss having companion animals)
Passion Flower Vine

Around to Fifth Avenue where the doorman has my package
(the upshot further on)
Heading back uptown walking slowly along University Place passing the restaurant where my friend Amy and others often shared celebrations years past
 to 14th Street with a stop at Trader-Joe for just a few items. I noted a total of five homeless during the time I was out. This woman sitting in the Buddah way was silent in meditation.  
This fellow was trying to nap.

One man standing and pacing in this group was declaiming about his situation on a cell while two others were camping out on the ground
This young woman is one I've talked to before. She's drug free and sober, married to a homeless fellow for many years, briefly homeless previously and now again for almost a year. They camp out together with their two beautiful well kept cats. The one city shelter that allows companion animals is only for abused women and kids in Brooklyn. Another woman is talking with her and offering help.

then slow walk up to 18th and cut across to Stuyvesant park for a short visit, and up to 21st Street
~*~

At home I anxiously opened my package but was disappointed. I will have to seek remedy when the friend who arranged the delivery for me returns from her family weekend.
(Sigh)
They promised me a 14.33 by 8.25 Blue Light Screen Protector, but it just measures 12 across and so....and so, even though delivery was speedy, it won't do.
 Amazon was the source for the order.
~*~

Lovely Sunset and Mild Temperature
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Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_(sculpture)

Friday

Thursday, December 1, 2016

NOVEMBER ENDS

Scenes

Friday
At Home when My Mac Laptop Dies
 (On the way to the Kitchen)
Caricature by Fred
World Buddhism Course on Cassette
~*~

Saturday
(Headed downtown with Laptop)
Art-Modern tower on the SE corner of 2nd Avenue at East 13th Street-Verizon switching center, formerly AT&T
 Also serving as homeless shelter for an old man and a young inter-racial couple with their little dog
Across the Street
Who was he and why was a building named for him?
(Google doesn't know)
 Looking South on First Avenue to 10th Street
(Close up)
Dead Computer left with Rossmann Repair Group
 ~*~

Sunday 
Return to Rossmann
Verdict---Unfixable
Replacement Given
On line again with a larger screen!
(special thanks to Jude Hill)
~*~

Monday
"We Shall Overcome"
Hand painted sign for an opportunistic homeless shelter at the deserted Rivington House
 ~*~

Wednesday
Chenrezig at the Zendo
(New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care)
Mala bead bracelets Offered
Back where I started
 ~*~

Thursday
December
(by Rima Stains)

 https://youtu.be/f5qGUhWPi6w

THROWBACK
1975
(original Flyer-I have six. If you want one email me)

PS
For Feminists who Remember and Curious Others
Robin Morgan is On Facebook
~*~

LINKS

Rossmann Repair Group
https://www.rossmanngroup.com/

Rivington House
http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2014/10/oped-a-requiem-for-rivington-house.html

New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
http://zencare.org/

Chenrezig
http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/chen-re-zig.htm

Equal Rights Amendment
1.
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/history.htm
2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment