FRONT YARD 2

Sunday
May 31st 2020
Another all nighter commences; helicopters circling, police on the move in protective gear, sirens, a dog barking.

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Skies shifted on their own schedule all day, oblivious of our distress, of the pandemic lock-down, mask wearing, or our weeping and our rage.
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The moon does not protest.
 

Another Pandemic SUNDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY

Sunday
5.3.2020
A walk about masked and gloved.
The Gandhi Garden
"On July 15, 1986 The New York Times reported "On the second of October in 1869, Mohandas K. Gandhi was born.  On the second of October in 1986, an eight-foot bronze likeness of the Mahatma is scheduled to be unveiled in Union Square." The choice of Union Square as the statue's site was by no means casual. Several other locations had been proposed, but the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation had rejected them all as inappropriate.  Gandhi's great-grandnephew, Yogesh K. Gandhi, was director of the foundation and he explained "Union Square has a history of free speech.  For me, union is identified with unity.  And also, thousands of people are passing by every day.  By seeing the statue, people get the inspiration of the philosophy of nonviolence.  And that is the idea."
 READ
Really, you won't be sorry
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-mohandas-gandhi-statue-union-square.html

Motherhood

Not yet full

Tuesday
5.4.2020

Noon
High Anxiety all Day 
Intermittent Heart palpitations
Weeping without tears

 Zoom-Cast Session with My Zendo
6 p.m.
After meditation, complete relief

Tuesday
5.5.2T020
6 a.m.

 8 p.m.

(closer)

10 p.m
Change

How many more cups of tea and coffee before I float away while sheltered in place?

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BEST MUSICAL ZOOM-CAST
From the Julliard School
"Bolero
(9 minutes and 30 seconds)
Directed and choreographed by Larry Keigwin with associate Nicole Wolcott, featuring a reimagining of Ravel’s score, conducted by David Robertson, and produced by Kurt Crowley. Featuring Juilliard dancers, musicians, and actors, with alumni Emanuel Ax (music), Christine Baranski (drama), Jon Batiste (jazz studies), Renée Fleming (voice), Isabel Leonard (voice), Laura Linney (drama), Patti LuPone (drama), Yo-Yo Ma (music), Andrea Miller (dance), Bebe Neuwirth (dance), faculty member Itzhak Perlman (music), Susanna Phillips (voice), Bobbi Jene Smith (dance), Davóne Tines (voice), and Bradley Whitford (drama).

https://youtu.be/rqzkn-jX-JU 

A PRECIOUS FEW

 Oh, It's a long, long while
From May to December
And the days grow short
When you reach September

https://youtu.be/FWDV-4U-Bow

Friday evening at our Monthly meeting of elders
"Wisdom Sangha"

We discussed medical directives and received these:

Solitude

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.

Walking home, I stopped to shoot this abstract close up of the moon near Madison Square. Though it looks full, it won't be until the 17th. the colored globes are lit apartment windows in an adjacent building

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A more glorious day may never be.
It's clear at 10:30 a.m. Saturday
and the temperature may reach eighty.

 11:30 p.m.
Planted the three yellow begonia and watered in with liquid seaweed boost. Not very visible.
I'll shoot again tomorrow.
Hope to add in blue forget-me-not next.

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HAPPY DAY FATHERS
https://mscomfortzone.blogspot.com/2017/06/dad.html
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WHAT'S SO FUNNY?

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A most loved and precious being has left the planet

https://youtu.be/16CL6bKVbJQ

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Meanwhile,
 What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding

https://youtu.be/8qomSOIdo08

SUPER SUPPER SATURDAY

Storm Threatened Divided Sky
8.18.2018
5:40 PM

Surprise Delight

Feeding in front of Epiphany Church
at 22nd Street on 2nd Avenue

6:20PM

Mural at Stanton Street heading for Eldridge

Hot night, but cool inside John Marcus Powells flat.

Jerry Young and wonderful Walter already arrived

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Oh What a Feast

Rich Stew brilliantly curry spiced, perfect rice, vegetable melange, Chutney, Mint jelly and plenty of liquid refreshment, capped off by luscious watermelon and really, what more could one want of a late Summer Supper than convivial company and great eats!

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Our Gracious Host

Expressive Moment

Relaxed with Friends

 His newest book of Poems
"Veil On - Veil Off"
Will be Released in September
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Heading Home

Home

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OCTOBER ENDS in NOVEMBER

A Surprise Gift

Valeriana sent her "Fall Forest" painting and a Rhu-cat doodle

(placed next to two doodles from Jude Hill)

Monday October 30th

Everything - Joys and Sorrows, Tragedies and Comedies - all weather, passing like clouds on the sky screen of a morning looking Eastward from my front window in Manhattan.

Ludlow Street Real Estate

The Writing's on the Walls

Young Fashionistas designer Shops

Mr. Death

Where we Are

Old/New Contrast

Everyone was like a kid in a...

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Tuesday October 31st

see LINK below

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Wednesday November 1st

Zendo Altar

(at the Zendo)

Moon

(across the street from Trader Joe)

 Headlines

(Daily News & New York Post)

LINK

A Room for Two

(seen on my walk home)

Street Find Selfie

(next door to my building)

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Thursday November 2nd
2 Slices of Life
(23rd Street at Third Avenue)

Madison Square Post Office
(paying bills)

Mirror Image Magic
(Thrift Shop Guardian)

 Curly Cabbage at the Curb
(note the red renegade)

 7PM-11PM
Supper with Desert,Talk and Walk
20 Irving Place

 "Cheer up child, you'll be dead a long time"
(Irish Saying)

Michael Beiser
(Archangel)

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LINKS

Valeriana Claff
 RAVENWOOD FOREST
http://ravenwoodforestarts.com/

OCTOBER 31st
http://mscomfortzone.blogspot.com/2017/10/all-hallows-eve.html

"TERROR" ATTACK NYC
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/01/561304014/suspect-in-new-york-city-truck-attack-worked-as-commercial-truck-uber-driver?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20171101&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews