GRIEF and GIFTS

Little Brother
*
If a poet, I'd skillfully rhyme

all our being-together time.
Seventy years, birth to demise.
Sorrow blocks me, clouds my eyes.

 

Mostly home processing this loss.
Going through photographs of my Brother, William James (Jamie) with plans to have some of them rephotographed to send along to Rosa and Dennis Slater

Gift
Dee Mallon sent a handmade pine pillow I love and her pennant for  Mo Crows "Love is the Answer"
Wonderful details

 
 
 
 


Concert
 
 My old friend (Archangel) Michael treated me to the West Village Chorale Holiday concert at Judson church

  Plus supper after at our favorite West Village Delicatessen. We walked through Washington Square headed for the bus home.

Nothing is Lost

https://youtu.be/O-6No_N_zZc

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SEVENTH DAY

SATURDAY
What Remains
(Honoring Mothers Bouquet)

SUNDAY
Washington Square
"He was playin' real good...

 ...for free."

 "This machine kills fascists"

(copied from Woody Guthrie famous guitar)

The chalk man who has been around for decades is still with us,

 a new International Jazz Trio,

 and, forever and ever a guitar man.

JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH

the sign outside the entrance on a mirror background

 Inside-a history of work for Justice

 Just one audience photograph:
The red haired woman...there's a story in the fact that her boyfriend is easily spotted in the Chorale as the only one with bright green hair.

"American Voices"
with the West Village Chorale
(see link)

  my friend and benefactor, Michael Beiser with his niece, Freesia after the concert

 Washington Square once more....

...then to the bus stop.

Eighth Street

Home
The End

LINK
http://westvillagechorale.org/concerts/ 

MORE DAZE-DESPAIR-THE TURNING

Thursday Night

A last surviving original tree on East 21st Street glows in the street light

A Favorite Holiday Card of Yesteryear

Trims around the Apartment

Who was this from?

 Madame Collette Angel

A Jim Bird with an Emily Bauble

That Tin Heart

Friday
More Cards for this Year

Glitter Reindeer & Two Cardinal greetings

 Wolf Friends

A package of home-made treats from my Massachusetts  friends:
Zucchini bread, three kinds of Cookies, Quince Jam and 'bread & butter' pickles

Saturday
Washington Square Scenes
Looking South to the 'Freedom' Tower

"Dedicated to General Giuseppe Garibaldi, the 19th century Italian patriot.
He crusaded for a unified Italy during the European era of state building."

 Roses still Blooming despite the Chill air

Caroling at Judson Church
With the West Village Chorale and my friend Michael

 Hot Chocolate, Snacks and more singing Inside around the piano

Sunday

So many expensive 'Urgent Care' centers opening around town while the hospitals turn into high end condominiums, or consolidate--one taking over another as homelessness increases at an alarming rate.  Too much sadness, displacement and despair.

Monday
The Turning

It has begun, begun in the dark. Darkness that deepens till dawn. Dawn loosening light that wakes. Wakes within the sleeping world. Worlds, all seamless as dreams, dreaming wave on wave of light, light fading then back into night.

https://youtu.be/HEdh2jXDe5I

Blessed Be