MOTHERLESS SUNDAY + MONDAY-TUESDAY

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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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LISTENING and LOOKING

News
I listen to news on NPR and BBC Radio daily...

("Isn't this fun")

 

...while simultaneously viewing mute cartoons on Television.

("We're flying with the Cat in a Hat today")

.

The combination creates an uncanny balance and

serves to aid detachment

 ~*~

 Tuesday I Voted

It was a low turn out by 5 p.m. and

I was welcomed by many workers.

 

 Then

Neighborhood Walk-about

Saw

 

Thought about the shortness of life and persistence of beauty; how Easter Lilies bloom and re-bloom, Hydrangea blossoms open and close.

 

This is how I manage constant stimuli: I remind myself to

take it in and let it go, without attaching or holding.

~*~

Wednesday Morning
5:30 with it's clear blue sky, ancient curve of a waning moon and one neighbor, someone I don't even know, whose light in the window reminded me of being in community. A palpable feeling of peace washed over me and I need to remember it.


Evening Meditation

Buddha, Dharma, Sangha

Sanctuary.

Presidential Debates
Part one with ten Candidates
I paid attention. It was daunting and overwhelming in this too-short period of time when so much has been ruined and so very many issues are critical enough to be called Emergencies. Part two with ten more candidates tomorrow night same time and place.
>>>>><<<<<

MY 'STAYCATION' BEGINS

 DAY ONE
Since I did not escape hot steamy New York City yesterday, I was able to be present for Wednesday evening Meditation.

AND

A Sangha member gifted me this book by one or our teachers.

(see link)

View a swell hour talk about the book by the Author:
https://www.facebook.com/nyzencenter/videos/620262851784054/?hc_ref=ARS7mc1csr9vYRtOM3ayFqHZbeB0_ZnhH4wwmUP4tNY4E8VjiWOhy_62FwLlXArfcuM&__xts__[0]=68.ARBDq7279ZBF1Ux8AZaFVU8Q2uvlyRN8MroM8LqUfiu2yD_rem8bcVcPEcKSxdXAOnNpFL5wto_dh-3MISbyZ46uoidHdBboHhkeZzVZSRVHpR6gCv8QhukEiJDeum7taqjNoBsCLfqVQZCkp0tO4TwJrYwqq0mybwCoZqGQZMeUCQkpNbeIhBEzgJks45N0qUCcav-0IzrzcYsYSth6MF9EIygwmGjOJnFGUReR1vjC2sdN73rNbxGtG4NtCnvH61YDi1clBHSFSea6IrF_PqpbWj2eDwZEIB7_F5eybZEWkA4M9emBSvtLv3vbihOgwXUK8X-nXCFI8c0&__tn__=FCH-R

PLUS

I gleaned two of this 1958 slim treasure from the give away pile. One for me and one for someone else.

(email if you want one)

THEN

On the walk home I rescued three useful discards.

~*~

DAY TWO
The sun is playing with us today, coming and going,
appearing and disappearing.
Weather holds all the high cards and the low.
It does not discriminate.

The rains came and went, came and went and then a HUGE hullabaloo with sirens and honking horns about 9:30 p.m. When I looked out my front window, cars were lined up bumper to bumper and an ambulance was trying to get through. I went out to see what was happening. Second Avenue had been closed off for four blocks to let the City repave and all traffic backed up trying to use side streets. Crazy. I sat at the church a while and came back around 10 p.m. There are still some sirens, but the block has cleared and trucks moved on. Apparently Manhattan, soaked and overflowing, has lost it's rational mind tonight. Perhaps I have too. 
Heartache In the News
Iran and these (dis)United States,
Shaking bones, waving dangerous threats.
Oh, say can you see?
~*~

DAY THREE
2 a.m.
 
 Air Conditioner Check-filter red light is lit.  Got up, turned the system off, washed the filter and replaced it, but the light remained on. It's too humid to turn it off entirely. What to do? It seems to be working, but I'm worried I'll damage it if I leave it on. Got to check with the hardware store today. They cleaned the unit June 2017.
 
 AHA!
Read the instructions. There's a trick to turning the check-filter light off once the filter has been cleaned. So, no problem.
(((whew)))
Back to Sleep

 GLORIOUS WEATHER
all this longest day

5 p.m.
Stuyvesant Park

My beautiful, talented neighbor-Jenny Amanda Hurwitz
Played solo guitar on a set of her songs
This is her Hat
 
(My photo storage has reached a limit and I need to find out how to solve that without buying more storage. Luddite me doesn't even know where they are stored on the laptop. I took some nice full body and portrait shots but can't turn them to show. I need a tech-volunteer to come to my apartment and effect a fix. I'll work on it.
7:30 p.m.
We went on to Union Square where women guitarists were playing a set led by Ann Klein and my friend joined in. Then there was an astounding sunset, but none of the photographs are available, because unbeknown to me till I got home around 10, my sim-card was full.
 ~*~

SWEET SOLSTICE SALUTATIONS

  ~*~  


LINKS

"Whole Hearted"

https://zencare.org/wholehearted-book-slow-down-help-out-wake-up/

"The Seventh Wave"
https://youtu.be/HxXcD3tKCq4

 

BASKET CASE and CURES

MONDAY

5.20.2019
Rapid Changes in Quick Succession

Lately I'm either overflowing with options

...or a closet case in denial

Mind matter and Real matters alternating
What actually comes to matter is what catches my attention from moment to moment and place to place
~*~

TUESDAY
5.21.2019

9 a.m.


3 p.m.
Neighbor, Ron Sherbet and I journeyed to Third Avenue at 11th Street for $5 Tuesdays at AMC theaters
"A Dogs Journey"

https://youtu.be/A2FrrSyyKfA
Mostly kids in the audience and a great pleasure
with nostalgia and gentle tears.

6:30 p.m.
10th Street on 2nd Avenue
St Marks Church
 
Plaza in front

 Ron poses on request


Then, Perogies and blintzes
Little Poland Restaurant
2nd Avenue at 12th Street

Home at 8 p.m.


Waning moon and shaky hands

Between two street level entrances

~*~

WEDNESDAY
5.22.2019
Finally finished the package of ten Note Cards
("Painting by Max Gimblett-NYZCCC-Photo by Ms")

After Meditation
Walked home from the Zendo
(Madison Square 8:30 p.m.)

~*~

THURSDAY
Leaving 2019 behind
"New York Album"
by Lou Reed
Listen back to
1989

https://youtu.be/Pb_r-IwB8t8
(whole album)

Look Back Four Decades

to

1949

Preview and Brilliant New Introduction

https://books.google.com/books/about/Here_is_New_York.html?id=MVGsbLjVyMgC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false

~*~