Anticipation

Prelude to Fire in the Sky

Prelude to Fire in the Sky

I'm here. Wish you were gay.

Anything But Silence

I never travel without music or podcasts anymore. My iPhone needed service and so I was to be without media player for three days. It's embarrassing to admit the idea of silence had become a bit spooky. So filled with anxiety was I over the prospect of having to travel the city without the ability to jam sound in my ears I didn't put the iPhone into its shipping container until I'd actually arrived at the drop off.

But New York City is anything but silent, it teems with sound ... people, traffic, machinery. I'd forgotten the sounds of the subways ... the squeal of brakes, the screech of wheels on rails, the hiss of compressors, the lurch of the cars. Mechanical things always fascinate me.

And I'd forgotten the little games we play on public transportation ... "Guess My Ethnicity" ... "How Stupid and/or Crazy Am I?" ... "Eavesdropping as a Public Sport". The small sounds of the passengers and the loud sounds of the crazy passengers were all fresh again, like when I was new to the city. And I remembered what it felt like to feel connected to the diversity of humankind in a city brimming with people.

The experience has been interesting and not so scary after all. I finished reading the book I'd put down a few months ago. And I found a welcome calmness that I'd perhaps forgotten.

On the whole, I prefer having my media. But perhaps in the future I'll leave my iPhone home once a month, just for the human experience of it.

The things we do for a free show...

Hi-Def Cable For Everybody!

Egad! There are Jawas on the A Train.

Tourist at Home

My brother Burke is in town, so I'm sightseeing in New York City.





I didn't tell him the hat and sunglasses I loaned him are from my
Gaucho de las Mariposas ensemble until after he'd worn them all over town. *snicker*



So often when you go sightseeing, you end up peering at landmarks from afar and from amongst the throngs.



But there are other lovely things to look at.



This little security robot looks like Wall-E or Number 5, don'tcha think?



All in all our trip to Liberty Island was quite enjoyable.
I just wish they'd do something about all the corpses.