4/29/2020 – Forty-third Entry

Forty-third Entry     Wednesday, April 29th, 2020 Last night I walked home. Walking is almost always refreshing, and it was delightful to have the sidewalks all to myself.  

I wanted to experience nighttime activity on a west-side avenue with traffic...

4/1/2020 – Fifteenth Entry

Fifteenth Entry   (click photo to enlarge)   Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 Toilet paper is still in super high demand; some stores are limiting purchases to one roll per customer. Morning sitting is quiet. What does it take to change a place? Everyone knows how...

4/30/2020 – Forty-fourth Entry

Forty-fourth Entry   Thursday, April 30th, 2020 I try to honor the newly dead as I pass the mobile morgue in Greenwich Village. My honoring is diminutive, simply lowering my head and holding attention for a moment four or five nights each week. Tonight as I rode...

4/28/2020 – Forty-second Entry

Forty-second Entry     Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 Today, most of the news is about “reopening.”  The President says, “Testing is not going to be a problem.”  An Obama-era medical advisor projected that things would return to “normal” in Fall 2021.  New York...

4/27/2020 – Forty-first Entry

Forty-first Entry     Monday, April 27th, 2020 The heat in my little home is on again—it’s nearly May. The chill has prolonged the spring blossoms and flowers, as it has in the recent years of warm winters. It is wonderful to have the exuberance and colors of...

4/24/2020 – Thirty-eighth Entry

Thirty-eighth Entry     Friday April 24, 2020 Today, the United States (quite a misnomer) passed 50,000 Covid-19 deaths. Forty states announced schools would not reopen this school year.   I gave myself a haircut. Really, I just cut some hairs off the sides...