PRESENCE

Moon Model
Window at Opera Thrift Shop reflecting reconstruction of the building across East 23rd Street

Monday Evening Writing Group

Prompt 1. Senses
Prompt 2. Favorite Candy
(TBT)

Notorious Access-A-Ride pulling away and writing buddy almost missed it because they only have to wait five minutes often stranding folks in wheelchairs or with other challenges

Nancy Beck in the bus reflecting the bus stop

We often take the first Avenue Limited

home together after

I depart at 25th Street

She travels on to the Eighties

Tuesday
Lovely Lucy observes

While my old Union friend, Margarita kindly does my taxes for me. New York State demands filing on line and Turbo Tax charges $29.99 to file it!

We walked patient Lucy

Then I waited for the cross town bus

in front of this great old dive

Wednesday
I placed an ailing friends name on the
"being watched over" altar at the Zendo

(found out Thursday her test results are 'clear')

Throwback Thursday

6AM

THEN

A trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles

Because I let my non-driver I.D. expire while I was busy with more pressing issues of life in the body, I have to get a new one and that means 'start again' showing proofs of residence, and other I.D.s of their specific designation. Gathered all last night.

While waiting for the cross town bus I shot two reflections in Housing Works windows:

Selfie

 Someones Past

2:30PM

366 West 31st Street Manhattan

3:30, 4:30, 5:30

Took a break and went out to look at the sky

 See the seagull and the hawk high above

closer

6:00

Their Computer went down for a while, some folks left.

7:00

Photograph, Proofs checked, Paid

7:45

Freedom

Sky Theif

 Crane City

Walked down Ninth Avenue

"Shapiro Untitled Bronze"

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 Post Office Rest Stop

 One Brown Pigeon

 Only One

 Watching me watching her

 Another Crosstown bus and I was home

Limping and Exhausted

8:30PM

Soup and Solace

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Note to self:

You only have so much energy to be actively congenial among many others for long periods of time. It's okay to fall short of output, to disengage while remaining present, to fall into silence.

https://youtu.be/GndMSj2R2NA

STORMY MONDAY - SUNDOWN - SUMMER SOLSTICE

DAILY
Reminders of Zen practice ("You can tell the depth of a persons awake-ness by how they serve others), of Tibet (landscape and 'Sublime Worlds'), of my local Library, of Michael Beiser and Boston ("Keep calm and start a Revolution"), of My friend Nayra (3 wolves), and dear Cynthia from 'Taking Root' in Vermont (banana tree) 

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MONDAY
As I turned the lock on my apartment door
-KRAaaaaaK and KABOOoooooM-
the rains came as predicted. I was thoroughly soaked before I even got to the bus stop. Downtown for my weekly writing group, the Moving Pen, the sky threatened for hours, and, coming home my writing buddy of many years, Nancy Beck, is smiling out at me from the First Avenue bus at 23rd Street. See the weird gold and pink glow on the buildings behind and the bus itself.

Downtown for my weekly writing group, and coming home my buddy of many years, Nancy Beck, is smiling out at me from the First Avenue bus at 23rd Street. See the weird gold and pink glow on the buildings and the bus itself. I love moody weather.

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TUESDAY
Hudson River Park

"Traveler, the only road
Is your footsteps, and nothing more;
Traveler, there is no road,
We make the road by walking."
-Antonio Machado

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SUNDOWN

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The End

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Wisdom

by Sarah Teasdale

"When I have ceased to break my wings

Against the faultiness of things,

And learned that compromises wait

Behnd each hardly opened gate.

When I can look life in the eyes,

Grown calm and very coldly wise,

Life will have given me the truth

And taken in exchange my youth."
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SOLSTICE SALUTATIONS 
June 21 2017
(I am smiling)

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