Just a jeweler on Main St. in Margaretville, NY. 94 years old. Amazing that he can see. More amazing that he can feel.
Woodstock Maine’s Disgrace
Like Kristof in the NYT News of the Week in Review this Sunday, I have to wonder, or rather rethink my views on the First Amendment. Let’s edit that. I have to rethink my views on a lot of things. My experiences from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and the first decade of the 21st Century have gotten so confusing that I don’t know what I really believe about a wide number of issues. Consider that a liberal rag, The New Republic, one which guided my ideology in my more formative years recognizes that Islam may be at odds with the Constitution. How about that, sports fans?
Marie at College St. and Battery Bus Stop
The bus always comes for those who wait.
Old Puerto Rican Saying
Marie, oh Marie. How could I pass up such a lovely woman? Her hat. Her smile. I just glanced over at her as I walked past the bus stop at Battery and College and she engaged me. Yet another woman who agreed to have her picture taken with the proviso that she would not be responsible if the snapshot broke my camera.
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Michael Frett sees Bruce Davidson
I kept saying to Michael, “keep your hands off the images.” He retorted that he wasn’t touching them, at least not with his hands.
Jillian Listens On Church Street
“What are you listening to?”
“Not sure.”
“Who did the ink?”
“My ex-boyfriend.”
“How did he do it.”
“Dip and poke.”
Jesse #2
Very upset, I am, as I leave for a week at Maine Media Photocamp after reading today’s article on the upsurge in killings of street people in the New York Times. The paper of record called them homeless. I don’t know exactly what that means, so I will leave it for another time. And, I don’t necessarily think that the rise in killings has at its genesis hatred, but the fact that people kill these people because they can for whatever reasons or no reasons at all disturbed me more than the Pew report that the number of people who believe President Obama is a muslim has risen.
Paul Keeps Working The Street
So many of us, well maybe not me, except for when I had my hip replaced, take sick days. These guys, my guys, have to go to work when they don’t feel 100%. Not like junkies who have to rob, steal, and beg for dope dough, these guys pull themselves up, dust themselves off, and start up all over again even on days when they haven’t slept it off. Not a good day for my man, Paul, but at least he be out there and I know nothing bad happened to him.
US Coast Guard-Burlington VT
As part of the Maritime Festival, we toured the Coast Guard Station located on the Lake Champlain Waterfront in Burlington Harbor. Oh, no big deal you say? Not for us. We have lived here or had a residence here for four years. Countless times we have walked the boardwalk to the fishing pier. We have seen the Coast Guard boats cruising out past the breakwater, sometimes fast (emergency) and sometimes slow (patrol/training/research). I have seen the tops of the buoys and some other equipment, but I never had a feel for what went on or what their duties were. It was a real treat to go behind the fences and barbed wire to see the boats and board them, in addition to being on a tour that explained their purpose here.
Bill Lee, Burlington Cardinal
Bill Lee, you must know Bill Lee and why we be kindred spirits. He played for the Burlington Cardinals today, a team of aging ball players who haven’t switched over to the larger ball and the shorter baselines. Bill did not disappoint.
Homeless Mike and Leroy Allen Skalstad, Milwaukee WI
The powers of the internet and social networking lay before me. Don’t realize the full potential as I start to expand my virtual world. Don’t have the time to learn all I would have had I been younger. But, then again, if I had the same growing pains that I experienced the first way through, I would have missed this round of technology promoting art, just like I missed the one that started in the 50’s.
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