“A 481. Awareness of the manifold possibilities open to me in the future; new hope…” And also a Penfield mood organ. Or maybe just some of this crazy water: Masaru Emoto’s water crystal experiments consist of exposing water in glasses to different words, picture or music, and then freezing and examining the aesthetics of the [...]
The High Line is finally open!old and new above it all I’m sure it looks better in the sunshine
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 [...]
Sandra was looking at this book when she was over yesterday and it reminded me of how great it is. I bought it two years ago at the bookstore where I used to work in LA because there’s a picture of it in the book. (this is not the picture from the book, but this [...]
I have always held in high esteem Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day. This could be because it was initially celebrated by Pennsylvania German (among many other cultures), and I am German. And as this has been a difficult winter to endure as my first with snow since I was 11, I was disheartened to learn [...]
I wandered into Mercer Street Books today, which I’ve often passed by but never been in. Lots of treasures, including this soft book: Here’s poem 19: there is a here and that here was a town(and the town is so aged the ocean wanders the streets are so ancient the houses enter the people are [...]
I’ve been listening to some great new music lately, new to me or to the world. Mostly Josh Ritter’s The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter; The Walkmen’s You & Me; and a little Little Joy and Ray LaMontagne. My favorite lyric from J. Ritter’s new-ish album follows. “Oh bring me the love that can sweeten [...]