Saturday
June 20th 2020
6 a.m.
Hot and Humid
Hot and Humid
12:30 p.m.
Working my way through this paper pile, discarding L.L. Bean catalogs from 2016, but I don't think I can let the last print issue of the Village Voice go yet.
https://www.spin.com/2017/09/village-voice-final-print-edition/
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Then there's a pile of poetry and a box to house the ones I decide are good enough to keep.
3 p.m.
Virtual Zendo Question & Answer Session
A great comfort for me.
Hudson River Park
7:30 p.m
Overcast
Solstice Sun setting
Above
Someone Flying Off
A Woman is Reading
Illuminated
Bus stop 23rd Street at Second Avenue
A Great book made into Film
(will theaters ever open again?)
"The novel by Philip Roth was published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central character in the novel is the young Philip, and the care with which his confusion and terror are rendered makes the novel as much about the mysteries of growing up as about American politics."
More about Charles Lindberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
Sunday
June 22nd
5 a.m.
Remembrance
Two Great Dads
William James Slater Sr.
Died in 1953
William James Slater Jr.
died December 2019
2 p.m.
Listening
WONDERFUL
"Pete Hamill is for many the living embodiment of New York City. He has known Manhattans Streets and many of its people for Seven Decades. For four of them, he has been a newspaperman, chronicling its triumphs and tragedies."
(5 CDs/6 Hours read by the Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Downtown-My-Manhattan-Pete-Hamill-ebook/dp/B000FC2NLW
Sundown
8:30 p.m.
Looking West at 21st Street
~*~
Working my way through this paper pile, discarding L.L. Bean catalogs from 2016, but I don't think I can let the last print issue of the Village Voice go yet.
https://www.spin.com/2017/09/village-voice-final-print-edition/
*
Then there's a pile of poetry and a box to house the ones I decide are good enough to keep.
3 p.m.
Virtual Zendo Question & Answer Session
A great comfort for me.
7:30 p.m
Overcast
Solstice Sun setting
Someone Flying Off
Bus stop 23rd Street at Second Avenue
A Great book made into Film
(will theaters ever open again?)
"The novel by Philip Roth was published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central character in the novel is the young Philip, and the care with which his confusion and terror are rendered makes the novel as much about the mysteries of growing up as about American politics."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
Sunday
June 22nd
5 a.m.
Two Great Dads
William James Slater Sr.
Died in 1953
died December 2019
2 p.m.
Listening
"Pete Hamill is for many the living embodiment of New York City. He has known Manhattans Streets and many of its people for Seven Decades. For four of them, he has been a newspaperman, chronicling its triumphs and tragedies."
(5 CDs/6 Hours read by the Author)
Sundown
8:30 p.m.
Looking West at 21st Street
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