Here is what my new home is like:

Welcome!

My first breakfast:


The first thing I unpacked:

Appropriate. [translation: I believe, in essence, that I am a gypsy.]
I found this book the other day at Skyline Books. I’ve been looking for it forever and had never seen a copy until I stumbled upon this one:

Also appropriate, considering Dybek writes about the Polish neighborhood in Chicago where he grew up and Greenpoint is predominantly Polish.
Sanny gave me this bottle of wine as a housewarming gift:

She bought it here, but it’s from home (North Coast).
Wundervoll, toll, schön!