June 2011
113 posts
Right now, in this line, I am falling in love with a Japanese girl, with her perfect, short floppy haircut and her Gucci sunglasses in the shade and her big upper lip and her scarf over skinny legs, and her ring-a-ling laugh.
I don’t understand a word she is saying.
Celebrating the start of the end of an unrealized beginning.
You welcome discomfort when it shoos away the worry you wear as a blanket.
Vermont is lovely this time of year.
French guy at the cheese place getting schooled on washed rinds by decidedly middle American girl date.
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I think New York is — well, decadent is the only word for it.”
– Brian Moore, I Am Mary Dunne
Madison, Park and Lex
I salute you and your stroller. You work that adorable baby like an easy scarf. It looks good on you. You look good. Please start having more meals.
Drips of gin unwittingly edit my first draft.
“Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it. Don’t wait for...”
– Special Agent Dale Cooper
““Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last....”
– The Little Prince
Persistence
I’m at this lovely little public space right outside my apartment where they offer free wi-fi and the river offers a sweet breeze.
There is a dog run and lounge chairs made of stone and tables for computing with soft drinks and a playground. Today the playground is teeming with kids of all sizes.
Young boys are stealthily sneaking up on pigeons to shoot them with a weak spray from a water...
“One summer, a friend and I walked from the East Village to Central Park with...”
– 33 Reasons We Can’t Help Loving Summer in the City
As a summerphile, I enjoyed this.
(via doree)
I try to make it a habit to walk for blocks purposelessly and notice things. It may not make me a better person but it makes me happy. There’s always so much on display to see. (See, e.g., why...
About a girl.
CityStories: The Beauty of New York →
citystories:
Franz said, “Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We’ve always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That’s what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a complete different base. It’s unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a...
Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love, Or sit at table at...
I also suspect that I am addicted to the Internet,...
ladymisskate:
The very fact that I posted my admission is an admission. Your hearts make me feel better.
You make me feel better.
Shouldn’t I alone make myself feel better?
Yep. And yep.
Sunday Funday
This morning I awoke after having a real bummer of a Saturday, and decided to make this day my bitch.
I suited up and headed for the Hudson River Park for a quick run. The sun was not yet out, and it wasn’t hot, and the run was easy.
At Hudson River Park I saw a decrepit old ferris wheel, some neato fountains and a naval ship with military planes parked on top. And there were people in...
“The bad news is I hate the play. The good news is I got the lead.”
– Overheard on the 42 crosstown bus
