Today doesn’t need a date, 2012.
Trying to understand how I see New York City and how an artist sees what is and is not really there.
A weekend ago I was saddened by my inability to successfully articulate to another what is it that I “saw” in New York City. It is like a fairytale that is true only if you believe it. I questioned whether the lens through which I have viewed New York City is tainted with unearned affection. Something I have just made up!
I know many people who live here because they have always lived here. There are also people who have no desire to visit other towns ... read more »
Tagged art, beauty, life, nyc, photos
a few weeks ago near my work…i came across so many birds all at once…if i didn’t know any better, i would have believed i was indeed some tree…
“Bird” by Pablo Neruda
It was passed from one bird to another, the whole gift of the day. The day went from flute to flute, went dressed in vegetation, in flights which opened a tunnel through the wind would pass to where birds were breaking open the dense blue air - and there, night came in.
When I returned from so many journeys, I stayed suspended and green between sun and geography - I saw how wings worked, ... read more »
Tagged beauty, birds, neruda, nyc, photos, poem
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
Still Sundays.
January 15, 2012.
Last time I wrote fiction was June 2011. It wasn’t even a story but a sketch of words. Prior to June, regularly putting down drafts of fiction, however incomplete, was March 2011. All in all, last time I wrote fiction every week, be it a paragraph for the novel or some story shared on this web space, was December 2010. It would be fair and accurate to state that I consistently tackled the craft of fiction from March 2010 to March 2011 regardless what was shared here—and it was a lot that was shared in this online space. In fact, every Tuesday, come rain or shine or travel. I wrote ... read more »
Tagged choices, nyc, process of writing, questions, ralph waldo emerson, social media, words
“I came to yoga not on a journey of personal transformation, but because I put my back out and couldn’t sit comfortably in a chair,” begins Claire Dederer in an article, “My Truce With Yoga” in the October issue of Whole Living magazine.
I timely came across this article that sheds light on the 6 billion dollar yoga industry. I share some excerpts that highlight my concerns:
I thought yoga was for self-indulgent, middle-aged ladies with time on their hands, or for fanatical vegetarian former gymnasts.
As I researched studios around Seattle, I noticed that yoga came in a dizzying array of flavors and strengths, often at opposite ends of a spiritual spectrum. At some studios, ... read more »
Tagged choices, marco rojas, nyc, yoga
