Still Sundays.
April 15, 2012.
It wasn’t until this weekend, last night, when I felt there really is something distinctive about this time of the year, particularly April 15th.
In 1865 on this day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The Titanic sank.
In 1927 a great American asset, the Mississippi river, became a tremendous liability when the sky fell down in the form of non-stop rain causing the river to burst and cause one of the greatest floods in American history.
In 1986 on this day American warplanes bombed Tripoli in retaliation of Libyan terrorism.
2012 seems packed with events but time is passing in slow motion. It is only April 15th and so much ... read more »
Tagged choices, life, music, paris, questions, social media, sublime flux
Some days I work part time in the South Bronx.
It is one of the most dilapidated parts of Bronx, a borough of New York City.
Most people don’t know that New York City is comprised of five boroughs and that Harlem is in Manhattan and quite expensive.
“The hub” is the retail heart of the South Bronx, located where four roads converge: East 149th Street, Willis, Melrose and Third Avenue. In the 1930s the Hub had movie palaces and vaudeville theaters and a few decades after it became a national symbol of urban decay.
I have witnessed some extreme poverty in my life given my travels and work ... read more »
Tagged choices, life, nyc, photography, photos, wanderlust
March 25th, 2012
STILL SUNDAYS
New York City can’t make up its mind whether to continue enduring pain and stay in winter or finally move forward into spring and summer.
Stillness is a peyote that shows what is real.
You can’t jump into stillness, you work your way into it and realize it is a fusion of all sorts of coming together.
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It was in Paris when James Baldwin was first able to come to grips with his explosive relationship with himself and America. Of course that is not why I went there in 2001—I have never followed in the footsteps of anyone—-this is not a boast, just a fact, just how ... read more »
Tagged art, choices, life, process of writing, questions, social media, twitter
February 19, 2012.
I ate a lot of Internet this weekend. I justified it because I ate healthy and kosher. The meat of the articles was halal. Fresh sources, great nutritional articles, lots of juice for thought. And I usually don’t eat meat: I had not browsed through any of my feeds or online journals in over a week. As is often with most things that happen to me, I had tapped in to the momentum exactly at the right time.
The right place, the right time, the wrong me.
I gathered that social media is going through some mid-life crisis. I thought Internet was only a baby. Don’t you first have to grow up, live ... read more »
Tagged bernard shaw, choices, life, nyc, questions, relating, seekfindseek, social media
February 12th, 2012.
Love like my parents. Love like yoga.
I like when I re-read something that I wrote and I find it is still accurate and applicable at large. A favorite t-shirt that never gets old. This brings me immense joy and surprise. Somehow it makes me feel I caught the hand of Time and danced to a short tune barely audible. I don’t feel this way towards most of my fiction attempts. Not yet anyway. I am deaf and Time mute when it comes to fiction. Then I am humbled: authors who passed the test of Time were indeed some gods.
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My eyes don’t make natural tears as easily anymore. ... read more »
Tagged choices, life, non-fiction stories, relating
