When I'm sitting at my desk having my morning coffee, and sometime later, when I think I've had the whole cup, I find just one more sip...
kb.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Moments of Simple Bliss
When I'm sitting at my desk having my morning coffee, and sometime later, when I think I've had the whole cup, I find just one more sip...
kb.
From "Overheard in New York"
Woman: "Come on, let's go get high, so you can make love to me, so we can get something to eat."--Fulton and Gold
(Talk about a round-about way to get a meal. ~ KB)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
Monday Evening
Annie requested that I announce to her "Peeps," that she put some things on her blog yesterday. This picture was taken about 3 minutes ago, Annie's doing her homework, we're listening to a CD by Bally Sagoo, and since she asked nicely...I am preparing to make cookies.
Love,
Katie
Lessons
Passing an elderly woman on the street this morning, I ask her how she is. With her cane in hand and a huge smile on her face, she says in a thick Bronx accent:
"Honey, I woke UP this morning! And if I wake UP...it's a BEUUUTIFUL DAY!"
Fellow High School Drop-Out
Thomas Edison: The most famous and productive inventor of all time; invented the filament electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera; electrical power usage pioneer; Congressional Gold Medal recipient; knighted (France: bestowed the rank of Chevalier.)
Don't it Always Seem to Go...
Annie: "Okay, this is just great!"Katie: "What?"
Annie: "I’ve spent all this time blowing on my hot chocolate and sipping it to see if it’s too hot, and now, just when it’s perfect...it’s gone!"
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Sunday Morning
Last night was the first time Annie and I have ever been out together, just the two of us, on a Saturday night. We spent some time downtown at a bookstore on Broadway, then at a local joint for a late dinner. As we sat and ate and talked, I noticed a group of young women standing up to leave, looking into mirrors, making sure they had nothing in their teeth, that their hair was neat. I watched as they headed out and into the possibility of what a Saturday night held for them. As the front door of the restaurant opened, the cold air blew in, and in that moment I realized that Annie and I were sitting on the same block where I first met David.
I was just the age of the young women leaving, and the memory of being out with friends on a Saturday night in the city came flooding back. I remember so clearly what the possibility of those nights held for us, for me, the possibility of romance, of love.
As I watched the young women laughing, adjusting their skirts and disappearing into their night of hope, I felt an overwhelming sense of sisterhood. I sent out a wish that each of them would be as lucky as I have been, to know the kind of love I have known, and that in years from now they may find themselves sitting on a Saturday night, sharing a meal with their daughters.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Instant Replay
If you went through something a year ago, and let's say it felt pretty lousy, when you reach the same time the NEXT year, feelings that were present only 12 months before often come flooding back. You forget what transpired in the time in between, how you got happier, stronger, even better than you were 13 months ago. All it took to set you reeling was the nip in the air, the way the sun went down early, or the feel of the wool coat you finally pulled out of the closet. That's all it took to send you back.
I don't imagine it's quite the same for people from places like Florida and California, but here on the east coast, depending where you were one year ago, it can put a smile on your face, or a pang in your heart.
Paint and They Shall Follow...
Even back in David's days at NYU, "The Pink House" was known among East Village residents, primarily for its shocking color. Dave and his roommate answered an ad for an apartment in the building, but the landlord tried to squeeze too much money from the boys, so they went elsewhere. Today you'd have to have big bucks to live anywhere in the East Village, and even then you'd never find an ad in the paper for a pad in "The Pink House." The fact that its color is ultimately the only thing that makes it an even more coveted address than its surrounding buildings, baffles me.
Perhaps I'll buy a place, paint it purple and charge triple the going rent. I bet it would work, and that is definitely something that makes me go, "Hmmm...." and makes me think $$$
Click to see Annie in Pink.
After School
I scold Annie for running near a moving car. As we're walking up the stairs to the apartment she says:"Do you hate me?"
Me: "No, I don't hate you."
Annie: "Well you act like you do."
Me: "I was angry, I was scared, that's not the same as hating."
Annie: "Could you ever hate me?"
Me: "I could never hate you, not even if you...strangled a bunch of monkeys."
Annie: "Even if they were NEWBORNS?"
Me: "You wouldn't strangle a bunch of newborn monkeys, would you?"
Annie: "No, but if I did, would you hate me?"
Me: "I wouldn't hate you, but I'd wonder where I went wrong."
From "Overheard in New York..."
Bitter ex on cell phone:
"And fuck him and his fuckin' wooden leg that I didn't even know he sold crack out of!
~80th & 3rd
Quote
“What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands.”
~C.S. Lewis quotes
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Secret...
When I was a kid, I figured that since my father was on television, a lot of people were. So, when I started to watch "The Partridge Family," and saw that David Cassidy looked a lot like my brother Michael, I just assumed that he was.
Fellow High School Drop-Out
Duke Ellington: Oscar-nominated American composer-bandleader; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Post Office Stories
I'm returning something I bought from a catalog, and hand the package to the postal worker.
Man: "Is there anything in here that is perishable, liquid or may be considered hazardous?"
Me: "Well, there IS a pretty hot little black dress inside..."
Early Rise
I woke up this morning and it was, (and still is) pitch dark outside. It's also completely silent at this hour, I'm talking country silent...without the crickets, pretty unusual for most city streets. I figured it to be about 3:00 a.m. and decided to get up and enjoy a few "bonus" hours to play around the apartment, make a cup of tea, read.
I love the time between late night and early morning, that wonderful space when most everyone else is asleep, when it feels as if the city has stayed open late just for me. So when I finally turned on the light to find it was 5:45, not three, I had a moment of disappointment.
But I don't have to meet Annie until eight, and the two extra hours of precious time is still, at least, a good door prize.
I had my tea, I read my book, and only now do I see a hint of sunlight outside the window.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Wednesday at My Place
Friends were over, I prepared food and coffee, we told short film war stories and waited for the rain to stop.
Annie did her homework and drank hot chocolate; the place felt like home.
Stephanie, (David's friend from Paris,) is in town to complete her short film, "Infinite Tree." I will be helping her with the edit for the next couple of weeks, Kristian also came over to lend a hand.
Homework
Dinner
Annie did her homework and drank hot chocolate; the place felt like home.
Stephanie, (David's friend from Paris,) is in town to complete her short film, "Infinite Tree." I will be helping her with the edit for the next couple of weeks, Kristian also came over to lend a hand. 
Homework
Dinner
Go Forward With Courage
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still;
be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists
-- as it surely will.
Then act with courage.
~White Eagle
From the Back Seat
Listening to Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues," Annie says: "This guy sounds like he has no teeth!"
Me: "You mean Donald Fagan?"
Annie: "Yeah, he sings like he has no teeth!"
I listen closely...
Me: "You're right! I've been listening to him for over 25 years and I've never noticed that!"
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Leo Horoscope~Week of Oct.9~Rob Brezny
"Sunny Sky's" is an ice cream store in North Carolina that sells a flavor called Cold Sweat, which is made with three varieties of hot peppers and two kinds of hot sauce. It's sweet and creamy and cool and spicy and prickly and fiery all at the same time--kind of like what I foresee for you in the coming week, Leo. To get the most out of this extravagantly paradoxical time, I suggest you take small bites. And please wait a while following each new mouthful to see what the after-effect is before you load up on more.
Secret...
I used to wish that I was a man so I could love a woman exactly the way I wanted to be loved... by a man.
Quote
“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed”~Winston Churchill
Monday, October 09, 2006
Quote
"Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity......Columbus Day should be remembered as the 'Day of Indian Resistance'."
~Hugo Chavez
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