SUNDAY ODYSSEY and FAREWELL

Carmine Street Metrics

Reading featuring Jee Leong Koh and John Foy.  I was also looking forward to hearing John Marcus Powell and Nemo Hill read in the open + I had something to read as well.

At 2:15 PM

I traveled to Houston Street near Avenue C and searched for Otto's Tiki Bar from the river to 2nd Avenue twice till a nice fellow, responding to my "Excuse me I'm lost" looked for the Tiki Bar on his IPhone and found it at 190 Allen Street in a new hotel, but the doorman said..."Yes, on the top floor but it's closed."  That's when I gave up.

Walked on to third Avenue and waited for the bus, where I met, rode uptown with and chatted to Wei Leng and Ise, both artists--he from Malaysia and she from Pakistan. She knew Jee through a friend of hers and is actually friends with him on Face book. That's the two of them in the back center of the bus below.

I missed the reading arriving home about 5:30PM. Looked at the invite and woke up to the fact that it's on 14th Street !!!!!

 ~*~

The End of Downton Abbey

(a few screen shots off my tiny television)

 Got a little teary despite the over-the-top finale with everyone happy

well matched

 graciously adjusting to change

 villains being thwarted

 Granny, magnificent as ever

 and a son is born to our favorite couple.

Farewell to my diversion, to melodrama, exquisite landscapes, fabulous costumes, gorgeous interior settings, and all those delicious characters.

 Farewell.

LOST IN THE I DON'T KNOW HOW

THE NEW LAPTOP

Hooked up--tiny--extra stuff that was not there before---tiny screen and tiny keyboard---more power but less control.  It won't let me sign in to my email---Oh, so tired---It's left sided and just doesn't work the way I need it to--The time is not reset and nothing is as it was.  Like all of life these days, a jumble tumbling me to a trembling blob.  Can't download new photos--can't access my emails.  Do I seem ungrateful?  I'm not.  I'm just lost, and my one good eye is not quite good enough to balance the new view.

Starting to feel it's time to run away

away hidden in clouds like water

to worlds where wind is not encrypted

riding wind on spirit wings.

 away away away far far forever