a song for all soul's day and another bicycle ride

 

from first unitarian universalist congregation, brooklyn

 

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i went to visit chanda today at merriweather. there's been a lot of anxiety for everyone with this election. 

i waited for her on the bench outside the entrance. i hadn't been far as i had been shopping at the health food store just down the street. i left the apartment early this morning to take some pumpkin pie to kendall, along with a few groceries she had requested . . so it was a busy morning.

we talked for a little bit (she was on a short break) and then she made me a mocha to go. i finished my errands which included picking up a few containers of frozen broth from the brodo store for korrina. earlier, i had visited a different health food store on seventh avenue to get her powdered vitamin c crystals and vitamin d3 drops. i then trudged home with the groceries, put a few perishables away and then headed out with korrina's items and greg's key fob for the citibike. it was such a windy day!

the greeting out the front door this morning . . pedaling against this wind was not fun . . but what a difference from yesterday, with the sun glistening off the river. it was such a beautiful ride downtown, and it was fun seeing where korrina works now, on an old cobblestone street lined with brick buildings that seem to be from the 18th century. her boss owns two or three places all next to each other.

and then i walked back to the bike dock and rode home, this time going by way of the river walk -

that little dot in the center on the horizon is the statue of liberty . . 

for dinner tonight we had scallops, fillet of sole, some kind of greens from the green market farmer that we've never had, but that i thought we could try, and potatoes. (it was the tokyo bekana greens, which i now know i prefer raw. they sautéed too watery, though chanda loved them. they're very "lettuce-like" to me. i think i would prefer them in a salad. they had a nice bite to them when uncooked.)