In his New Yorker essay Take the F, Ian Frazier describes life in his Brooklyn neighborhood and building, before relaying the story of a neighbor who had taken ill. While she was in the hospital, the whole building was “expectant, spooky, quiet”.
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The neighbor finally returned, pale but on the mend. In celebration, Frazier “walked to the garden, seeing glory everywhere.” He “took a big Betsy McCall rose to (his) face and breathed into it as if it were an oxygen mask.”
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I read this essay 25 years ago, and I still think about its life-affirming qualities often. I look forward to once again surrounding myself with roses, like these in the Sonoma (CA) Plaza, captured during the fullness of May.
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What do you look forward to?
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Poet and founder (with Peter D. Martin) of San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died this week at age 101.Errands on Waverly. From “Chinatown at a Crossroads”.Lunch at Belle Cora.Fresh start.Happy Chinese and Lunar New Year!Red curtains 2.Following on the previous post: the ochre and umber colors of the Geary Parkway Motel.Nothing like a pandemic to encourage you to go through your old travel photos. Exactly 10 years ago, I got to go to Venice, Italy, for Carnevale. What a fantastic experience! I loved seeing people in elaborate costumes and masks scurry by on the narrow dusk-darkened streets on their way to private balls. And Venice by day .. the glorious paint colors—umber, ochre, faded Venetian red—seem to be found in such sunlit profusion nowhere else.This perfect, uplifting mural of Inaugural Poet @amandascgorman by @nicolehaydenart perfectly matches the uplifting tone of Amanda, her poetry, the Biden/ Harris inauguration, and this hopeful moment. I found the mural, on one wall of what has served over the years as the Green Gulch Green Grocers and the Samovar Tea Lounge, exceedingly moving to come across.Buy the Book
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