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Wednesday

July 22,2020

Manhattan Window View
8:30 a.m. 76 degrees with 85% humidity. Low 80s expected to be the high. It's thick out there Friends.

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"THREADS"

Explores the needle arts including weaving, storytelling through quilts and textiles that speak to the creativity of the human spirit. Featuring fiber artists Terese Agnew, Randall Darwall, Faith Ringgold, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood.

(53 minutes 25 seconds)

You can watch it full screen here: 

https://www.pbs.org/video/craft-in-america-episode-viii-threads/
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Noon

 5:30 p.m. Storm gathering

 6-7 p.m.
Zoom Meditation Session with my Zendo,
a safe place during rough times
THEN
Thunder and Lightning
A terrific Downpour welcomed by me and all that is still green here in our Northeast stone canyon. While I assembled previously prepared dishes for supper, I listened to 'Antiques Roadshow' where some old neglected things turn into surprise fortunes. Then a long telephone catch up with my yoga friend Joanne s.
(from 2005)

After Midnight I walked out on the block. There was a refreshing wind and I sat on a bench for this masked selfie.

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JUNETEENTH

FRIDAY

June 19th 2020

10 a.m.

Juneteenth Explained

https://youtu.be/6FX-Iisvrj8

4 p.m.

Sing Along
"We Who Believe in Freedom"

https://youtu.be/S2T216XgiO0

7 p.m.

ClapBecauseWeCare

Lots of joyful noise from 22nd Street at the end of our alley and from the back of our building where I can hear Sami-Rose Katz "Yaying" and a bell ringing, perhaps from Pam Makie in the back building.

Meanwhile

In front, the police are taking a break from their duties and sharing libation and laughter. One smokes a cigar.

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Note

Add to my Reading List

A book about to be published by Donald Trumps Niece

“She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/16/mary-trump-book-too-much-never-enough-trauma-neglect-abuse-family-details?fbclid=IwAR2nvRB2xRp3srGAmZnAFmWiynyUyHkd7Qjujbo6gCHy-4YF2nEqfgF3qI0

MY FRONT YARD

Saturday
May 30th 2020
Afternoon

5 to 6 p.m.
Something is stirring in my Manhattan 'front yard'

The Thirteenth is gearing up for action.

No doubt, about current protests.

READ
New York Daily News

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-george-floyd-protests-frustration-officials-20200530-djhr4o7iefdvlews4g32jika34-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0UpsWt4CFmDozBTJkWkx90baN1l-xg0pnmgTrNo3Xkxmuj7VDZ8DJu9aY

8 p.m.
Another storm is moving in.

Many police are headed west

Both entrances to 21st Street are blocked

Later
An arrest

.

The  handcuffed woman was hollering
"I need help"

a while later, an ambulance arrived and a woman
was delivered within. They left to the hospital.

Helicopters circled the neighborhood all evening.

10:30
I headed out for my constitutional around Gramercy park and was let through the Barricade at third Avenue where fifty or more police were standing guard. Most were young men and women. They expected to be on duty all night. I told them I'd lived on the block since 1970, that my father was a Policeman and that I'd been praying for them. They thanked me. In fact, I'd been praying for the protesters as well and for the grieving family and friends of all.
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LISTEN
(18 minutes)
Trevor Noah shares his thoughts on the killing of George Floyd, the protests in Minneapolis, the dominos of racial injustice and police brutality, and how the contract between society and black Americans has been broken time and time again.

 
https://youtu.be/v4amCfVbA_c

Sunday
May 31st
9 a.m.

Another day like yesterday is expected
 


https://youtu.be/U6Uus--gFrc

MOTHERLESS SUNDAY + MONDAY-TUESDAY

All photos can be Enlarged w/double click
Sunday
5.10.2020
Walking West to East

in the Twenties

Noticing  Homeless Shelters

A Couple unmasked

Masked Photographer

Woman Meditating
Madison Square Park

~*~

Monday
5.11.2020
5 a.m.



looking West

Shadows

last Sunshine

A woman making a Cell call
 
 5:30 p.m.
More data was added to my empty gift-Cell
Thanks again to Alex Godin
6-7:30 p.m
Zendo Zoom Session
Meditation and Dharma Talk
"If your potential does not leave its fixed position, you tumble down into the poison sea"
(from The hermit of Lotus Flower Peak)
8 p.m.
Watched a wonderful episode of "Call the Midwife"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife

Tuesday
5.12.2020
5 a.m.

closer

9:30 a.m.

Watched the whole Senate Hearing
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/politics/anthony-fauci-congress-hearing/index.html
1:30 p.m.
Exhausted
*
 Beautiful Blue Electric Blanket Arrived
(a gift from Deb Lacitiva)


Slept on and off through the afternoon
8 p.m.

10 p.m.

Calm-Clarity-Compassion
(30 Minutes)

https://youtu.be/MdiNuOayaOs
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WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY-FRIDAY

MANHATTAN
Wednesday
5.6.2020
6 a.m.

My Window view

Later
A walk About

Note who was blocking the crosswalk. Meanwhile, people will have their say:

"In God We Trust" With empty liquor bottle, signature from 'Skippy' and label by 'Dave Sito'

Storm cloud above Union Square sent me hurrying home.

5:15 p.m.

~*~

Thursday
5.7.2020
Another warm sunny day
 Noon

Rescued Plants on the Windowsill

Walk About
Third Avenue Bus Stop
(with photographer reflected)

Third Avenue Bus Stop

Our National Debt moves relentlessly upward night and day on 14th Street corner of Park Avenue and at the Treasury Department. I wonder, can a country declare bankruptcy?

Meanwhile
Building has resumed for luxury housing all around the City, Non-essential except for the hungry Real Estate Industry.

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Friday 

5.8.2020
Building has also resumed at 23rd on Third Avenue

Pause

"Happy Birthday"

David Attenborough
May 8th, 1926, London

David Attenborough went to Clare College, Cambridge for a degree in Natural Sciences, after which he did two years National Service in the Royal Navy. He subsequently applied to the B.B.C. and after an initial rejection he was brought in to work as a broadcaster. With the growth of the B.B.C. television service he was put in charge of non-fiction programes. Between 1965 and 1969 he was the controller of BBC2. He has always been in favor if natural science and historical shows, and his presentation of natural history series has included Life on Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials of Life, The Private Life of Plants, The Life of Birds, the Life of Mammals and Life in the Undergrowth. He was knighted in 1985. He has made his witness statement on climate change in a new Film.

(9 minutes)

https://youtu.be/2PRJL07-WK0

Blooming
A pale Lilac at St. George Episcopal Church
Park Avenue at 21st Street

and at Gramercy Park
Lexington at 21st Street

Evening

6:30-8 p.m


I joined another Zoom virtual session with my Zendo for the "Wisdom Sangha" and all went well enough. However the Gift cell phone, run by AT&T informed me I am running out of Data Space. I can't fix it since I do no financial transactions on line, but my Sensei agreed to meet me (properly protected and appropriately distancing) at the actual Zendo Sunday to sort it out so I might continue to participate. All's well Friends.
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