EVERY DAY'S A NEW DAY

 Constitutional
After Midnight this perfect bouquet
Gleaned from the garbage near Lexington Hotel

At a low point for the week when mail arrived with a lovely gold leaf missive and sweet note from Patricia Wallace Jones

Also, this interesting memoir from Nancy Erisman  The author, "using mostly short entries organized fro A to Z, captures the moments, observations and emotions that comprise (her) contemporary life."

Then, this beauty from Jude Hill!

I relaxed.
How could I remain locked into darkness when such friends are looking out for me? Caring is the natural cure for many little ailments.

Saturday
Tonight I will be watching (for the third or fourth time) a film that is so well crafted and compelling it bears repetition-"Remains of the Day"

 https://youtu.be/L1aCp1Z1gAo

 7PM
I have compartmentalized my brain in order to bear up under the onslaught of Local, National and International important political news. Yes, I do pay attention, then I switch channels for sanity and regularly do a walking meditation, calling it a constitutional. Double meaning intentional. This is the least important fact learned today.

However
Here's ten images of it and ten interesting facts about its history:
http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/03/ten-images-of-bowling-green-and-ten-facts-about-its-marvelous-history.html
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Sunday
7 PM Heat and humidity escalating with a hot week forecast. I spent the afternoon and part of this evening on 6th Street between Avenue D and 1st Avenue, observing locations, chatting with people I know, as well as strangers.

Curious about the Name
This is one famous building
Habitat for Humanity helped tenants rehabilitate it.
http://thevillager.com/2013/10/17/jimmy-and-roslyn-carter-mark-30th-anniversary-of-e-6th-st-habitat-rehab-project/
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Community Center


 http://www.sixthstreetcenter.org/
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Just for the Signage

Smaller 6BC Botanical Garden

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 Avenue B and 6th Steet Garden
Drawing


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Cloudy Skies behind an apple laden tree

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Tompkins Square


Vendors selling wares.

The annual Charlie Parker concert going strong.
 I have two drawings of his from when He was at Washington Square
He's been at it for Decades

 Colorful Clothes

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 Rest Stop
Catholic Church 414 East 14th Street

Home
8PM
download photographs and scare up some supper.

Here Monday

A PRECIOUS FEW

https://youtu.be/wrSOjQfCg8Q

Quan Yin

(Compassion meditation for my sweet friend far away experiencing some stress)

 Shadow of Peace Cranes at New York Center for Contemplative Care

When I posted these two on Face book I wrote:
Interesting how I can feel deeply sad, yet still sincerely smile at every passer by whose eye makes contact, inhale gratefully the scent of night blooming moon flowers in passing, love the glow of one more sinking sun on the horizon line several city blocks away, am quickened by the soft touch of a slight breeze as the planet shifts, then inwardly bowed to the bus driver who waited while I fumbled with my change in those new machines and was fascinated by the variety of beings who shared my trip from West to East. How feeling all that in just one short hour I discovered that feeling deeply sad need not be sad.

The Cell

A performance space and salon at 338 West 23rd Street

I want to find an opportunity to check this out.

http://www.thecelltheatre.org/

Books Appear

Nancy Erisman sent two special books that used to belong to her mother along with a wonderful blessing note - "I have a special guardian angel. I am divinely guided and protected at all times"

Then -Three favorite authors chosen..books from the Zendo that 'Needed a home''

Steven Fry

"The Ode Less Taken"

(26 minutes)

https://youtu.be/Ap59pZiFZt0

Maurice Sendak

His last Interview

(5 minutes)

https://youtu.be/TH2OaaktJrw

Annie Dillard

(1 minute)

https://youtu.be/4UhAMvmVY7U 

AND

When I took this fourth one, Sensei Chodo said

"Are you really going to read that?"

(700 pages + extensive notes)

 I figure I will be reading for the next year at least!

 Six years ago he gave us "Happiness", a bestseller that has helped millions lead more satisfied lives. Now Matthieu Ricard, the French molecular biologist turned Buddhist monk, returns with the groundbreaking "Altruism", which shows that altruism is more than a lofty ideal-it’s a quality that resides within us all. And if we tap into it, we can change our world today. Here in conversation with Richard Gere-actor, activist and Buddhist.

(1 hour and 33 minutes)

https://youtu.be/nGVzRwM7EVI

A bouquet for Pams Birthday

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SCENES FROM a LIFE

Asters and Caladium
(behind bars)

Indian Summer
by Sarah Teasdale


Lyric night of the lingering Indian summer,
Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,
Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,
Ceaseless, insistent.

The grasshopper's horn, and far off, high in the maples
The wheel of a locust slowly grinding the silence,
Under a moon waning and warn and broken,
Tired with summer.

Let me remember you, voices of little insects,
Weeds in the moonlight, fields that are tangled with asters,
Let me remember you, soon the winter will be on us,
Snow-hushed and heartless.

Over my soul murmur your mute benediction
While I gaze, oh fields that rest after harvest,
As those who part look long in the eyes they lean to,
Lest they forget them.

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Red Roses in the Christie Garden

(what remains is a thin strip along Houston Street, NYC)

A meeting place with Conch

(Years ago this garden was twice the size)

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Books on a Ladder in my Home

(Berger-Fast-Simon & Gore Vidal)

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Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, NY NY

("Brotherhood Dance" Orlando Zane Hunter & Ricardo Valentine)

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Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison had a Birthday
with Chocolate Cake!

(New york Zen Center for Contemplative Care, NYC)

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Memory of Massachusetts
(found while organizing a box of photographs)

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Memory from my NYC Neighborhood
(Amber Sherbet October 1988)

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Reconnected With Dylan Guy via Face Book

(Her painting of 'Water Lilies" hangs in my home)

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Nancy Erisman sent this Gift from California
(Sunflower Button)

 My Florida Friend, Nayra sent Words to entertain me
(a print Book and three Audio books)

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A Card I love rose up from another box I'm Sorting through
(from Melissa LatourJuly 2007)

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Friday I visited The Museum of The City for the opening of "Gay Gotham", and although my friend didn't show up, I had time to see the whole thing on a lovely Indian Summer day

Many more Photographs in the next post...
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