THE PRESENT FOR NOW

High Wind and Divided Sky above my building

Monday Weather

July 23rd

 Second Avenue at East 23rd Street

Bus Stop

Note How Much is Going On

The puff of smoke over the Rabbis head while he tries to dial his cell phone is from the young Chinese mans cigarette. He's hidden by that woman passing out of frame far right. Foreground left is a Father/caregiver wearing a tee shirt with cartoon characters I don't recognize and wheeling a sleeping child. The ad inside the bus shelter carries the ominous message: "I saw nothing"

((((whew))))
 ~*~

Domestic Disturbance Tuesday

 10:30PM
The thunder-footed one and her roommate have returned.
My bath wall above the toilet is slowly streaming rivulets of water.
They won't answer their apartment door.
The Super responds. The leak stops.
This is not the first time.
He will return tomorrow to search for a leak within their wall.

 Framed 1906 drawing by unknown artist that hangs there is okay,
only a bit damp on the wood backing.
((((whew))))
~*~

Wednesday
Waited from ten to noon, then informed the Super, left the door locked open and ran some local errands

 Got two audio books at the Library
1. "The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland"
by Catherynne M. Valente
2. "I've Got My Eyes on You" by Mary Higgins Clark 

 Windowsill Basil is ready to Reap

'Caterfly'
from Jude who 'didn't forget' me.

Two hours of meditation at the Zendo
Spied this fledgling out the side window

 Goodnight

~*~

AUGUST EBBS

Sunday

August  24th

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

Tompkins Square Park

.

hundreds of folks--the young and old, rich or poor, a mix of multiple ethnicity--gather to relax with each other

with their critters

to people watch

and dance

dance

dance

dance

take photos

hang out together

till sunset finally drifts us apart...

~*~

Monday
August 25th
Writing from prompts by the Amherst Method
with two friends, one cat, and

 a dear dog named 'Button'

 On the way home, I'm encouraged by this sunflower still growing wild in front of a store that's been closed for more than a year

 ~*~

Tuesday
 August 26th
Patabi Joi

At Broome Street Temple for the monthly chanting of
The Hanuman Chalisa with long time yogi friends

Krishna Das Sings the Chalisa

English translation on screen

 

http://youtu.be/B3RenBiQTjk

~*~

Wednesday
August 27th
New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

A feather for my departing friend Amaranth
(she died Friday afternoon)
(Audio Link)

"The Other Shore"
~*~

Thursday
August 28th
Two audio books from my library:

1. Alan Bradley--The utterly delightful first of the
Flavia De Luce Series

2. Amitav Ghosh-second in his "ambitious"
Ibis Trilogy

 ~*~

Friday
August 29th
Free performance of the Isadora Dance Company

http://youtu.be/Z_zyv9lN1ds
Members of the current company allow us to watch their creative process as they reconstruct "The Dance of The Priestesses"

 Based on the myth of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War. The original solo from 1903 abstractly depicted the tragic ironies of the life of Iphigenia. Isadora later added additional figures, expanding the piece to reflect the support of Iphigenias fellow priestesses. She then set the piece on her Company dancers, including Anna Duncan, one of her six adopted artistic daughters. There are records of Isadora performing the piece in 1911 at Chatelet Theater, Paris.

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Lori Belilove, Kim D'Agnese, Morgana Rose Mellett, Emily D'Angelo, Faith Kimberling
~*~

Saturday
August 30th
Holy Basil
Given to me by one of my favorite plant sellers at the farmers market where I restocked my pollen elixir, and filled my spirit with the bounty of harvest time

about to bloom

(Wiki link)
"Marley"
Took a walk and met my favorite neighborhood dog

Back at the computer uh-oh
while answering email

Channel Thirteen
Escape back to 1952 tonight
(Trailer)

http://youtu.be/59CQ-K2JILo
~*~

Sunday
August 31st
Last year in Massachusetts

“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.” 
-Shunryu Suzuki Roshi-
~*~

DON'T QUITE KNOW

Don't quite know what to title this one;

Inclined to call it "The Eye Week" because this is the week I'll have surgery, but then, maybe not.  I'll just upload some pictures in the order they were taken and see what develops.

Late afternoon front room,

having just cut some cards.

Two New Audio Book

'Death of a Policeman' by M.C. Beaton.

Almost done--Good detective and very fine reader..

 "The Time Travelers Wife"

by Audrey -----(can't read last name)

My worthy book friend recommended it

On my way to my writing group, noticing dogs.

East Houston Street.

 First Avenue in the Twenties.

East 24th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue.

looking up at night.

 Closer

I would have crawled into the center if I could,

Dreamed then upon a blossom cloud,

Waked to chickadees chirping good news.

RELATIONSHIPs

Wildlife

Mule Deer and one particular man. 

An intimate relationship developed over the seven years he
became embedded in a herd.

PBS Documentary
(I can not recall the title, but it aired here twice this week)

Neighbors

Closings sever community connections.

Stories

My new audio book from the library--Irish tales from Patrick Taylor remind me of how relationships can be.

Nature

Spring bursts it's bounds.

Home

Evening is upon us now

rolling the stone of day away