According to my cell phone, my computer, my three calendars, the postmark, the tv guide, and the newspaper, today’s date is July 31, 2007. Since it’s going on 10 pm in New York, the date has clicked over to August in most of the rest of the world and soon even America will follow [...]
Archive for July, 2007
today’s date
Posted in journal, theory on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
a picture of kindness
Posted in journal on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An image has stayed with me since Friday evening. It captured s sense of what it is to be charitable and kind in a really selfless way. To do the right thing and the good thing that didn’t take much effort though it required a conscientious solution. At the same time, it [...]
getting along swimmingly
Posted in this post requires mathematical reasoning on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My mother claims that she had to push me into the pool at the start of my first race. I have no memory of being five and swimming competitively, though I know from pictures of myself in a brown and yellow suit that I did. The only reason I believe her is because I know [...]
ideas stalk me
Posted in journal on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The last time I picked up “Five Moral Pieces” by Umberto Eco I was on a bus returning from a weekend in Boston. I’d begun reading the first essay while waiting for Chris and only finished it before reading something else. Last week, the book migrated back into the priority reading pile that’s [...]
planning based on assumptions
Posted in journal on July 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was invited to the same lunch today by the two people who had planned and one person they had also invited. Each of them contacted me separately and none of them gave me directions. One of these people seemed to be inviting me in the context of something somewhat date-like but failed [...]
missing in action
Posted in journal on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reading film reviews, a wide range of literature, and a handful of serious newspaper articles, I’ve decided that some people are missing. There are characters out there that exist as living breathing human beings but never make it into books as individuals. They occasionally appear on the news and less frequently show up [...]
while my clothes dance towards cleanliness
Posted in journal on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I glance up from my book and see him beside me. I’ve snapped out of Somalia and onto York Avenue, but he doesn’t seem to belong here so my geography seems skewed. With his olive skin deeply tanned, skinny limbs poking from khaki shorts and blue t-shirt that are small but seem big [...]
the good ferry and alice
Posted in NYC, journal on July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have travelled on the Staten Island Ferry several times when I’ve needed a free ride across the harbor to take in the sites or the breeze. Upon arriving on the little, neglected southern borough, I typically return to the boarding area and leave again without a backwards glance. It is the ferry [...]
all the shades of brown and bandaids
Posted in journal on July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In addition to my skill and proficiency in a wide range of water sports and activites, I have three amazing summer talents: insufficient sunblock application, blood-sucking insect attraction, and masochistic shoe selection. By mid-July I look am a splotchy, scabby mess.
My skin has as many hues as a chameleon lounging on the [...]
do you believe in magic?
Posted in journal on July 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s a commercial about Sprint that asks you if, as a child, you imagined a magical screen as you drifted off to sleep. The appearance of the ad is friendly with glowing childish drawings on top of a twilight park scene, but it fails to comprehend that the kids who used their imaginations before [...]
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