What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?
Shouldn’t I prefer a board game involving real estate?
Landing on Park Place and avoiding jail is such a tempting combination.
Category Archives: around town
Choices
Dogs or cats?
They walk among us with style and grace. They have the mastery of the streets and often our hearts.
If we consider ourselves to be “cat people” they likely rule the roost in our homes. Nothing is off limits to our pets.
Do you prefer having a cat at home or is a dog more your style?
The advantage of owning a dog if you have to choose between the two is they are natural walking partners.
You’re going to be able to explore parks and nooks with your canine buddy. The cat will stay home.
On my route
Today, that commute also included diamond studded crocs [no photo documentation available].
I have also been noticing [there is my split infinitive again] little birds at foot level. They do fly away as soon as we are toe to toe, but they are walking the sidewalks a lot.
This diner and the sushi place next to it have been empty except for some pop-up art exhibits for a long while. My friend M liked the sushi joint. The hubs and I enjoyed an occasional meal at the diner. Service was awful, but the food brought us back. Looks like they are working some construction here now.
Cloudy days? Nah
What bothers you and why?
The heat, and I know it’s all relative, makes walk-abouts hard.
We invented fire and the combustion engine and coal stoves and big old gas guzzling automobiles….
Wish we humans had taken better care of the planet. We’ve been serial polluters pretty much from the get go.
Patterns
Little by little
Are you seeking security or adventure?
Adventure is a big word and usually a big endeavor.
My adventures are small, neighborly ventures. In them I attain both the security of being #near-by and close and the exploration in seeing the new and unexpected.
The daily walk
What do you think gets better with age?
Besides wine and old wood? Your favorite sweater ages well, but then it gets baggy. Likewise, your shoes, as they adjust to your feet, reach that point of a perfect fit. Unfortunately, they, too, eventually get sloppy.
Old buildings also get creaky, but with proper and attentive maintenance, they offer pleasure inside and out for a long time.
At the Met and environs
When I learned that there was going to be a performance by the Ballet Hispánico in support of the exhibit of Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter, I decided to attend one.
Buscando a Juan choreographed by Eduardo Vilaro to La Pasión segun San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov is a dramatic and exciting dance. It was performed in the new Robert Lehman Wing at the Metropolitan Museum.
West Side East Side
🎶All around the town.
Neighborhoods, despite the uniformity of city life, seem to have their own distinctive character.
Probably
It is my inclination to classify these birdhouses as art for art’s sake as I have never seen a bird pop in. Some have enclosures that are tiny. Too tiny.
What has become of New York City’s most famous mental institution. On this day, it is lit in bright sunshine and clarity. I wonder about this iconic landmark. I haven’t heard of it in a long time. It once was residence to many of our needy and struggling citizens.
In fact, with its establishment in 1736 as a public hospital, Bellevue treated the disturbed through most of its storied existence. In the 1970s, care for the mentally ill was largely defunded to be replaced by the hope that antipsychotics would work.
Economics, as in most sociopolitical determinations, played their part too. It’s expensive to treat mental illness.
Today, the department is referred to as Behavioral Health and is part of a wide range of services.
Where do you tap your card?
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