by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)
Showing posts with label december photo project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label december photo project. Show all posts
i had many, many holiday preparations i was supposed to do today, but instead i watched a movie with morgana and chanda (ocean's eight, which i enjoyed), went to lunch with my friend jeanette, attended a modern dance holiday recital which our friend charlotte was in, and then attended another modern dance recital for the martha graham school across the street from me with my friend janet (who knew one of the dancers). it was a very full and busy day . . just not busy with the tasks from the christmas prep list!
i took these photos on my way from lunch to the first recital.
greg and i had latkes for dinner in honor of chanukah before he ran off to a chess match.
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korrina had a consultation at the oral surgeon this morning at 11:30. she has wisdom teeth that will be coming out in january. they took a panoramic x-ray today and discussed which ones would be removed. one of them is not impacted and situated very close to a nerve, so it will remain; the others are impacted and so will come out. this particular surgeon was very busy. we were there for about an hour and i saw two patients leave with their mouths numb and swollen and two patients go in for procedures.
pottery/glass bulldogs in a store window on central park south, not far from the surgeon.
we visited apple jack diner (where greg and i ate about a week ago) since she was hungry . . i had one of my favorite sandwiches: shrimp salad on toasted rye bread with lettuce and tomato. it's also what i had the morning that korrina was born at 9:29 am on november 21, 1993, at (what was then) the maternity center on 92nd street just off madison avenue.
burger and coffee . .
it was a cold morning and korrina was decked out in all her gorgeous handknits. this is the bauhaus pattern, by irena poludnenko, knitted with stonehedge fiber mills crazy loaf (from when she worked for the yarn companyon broadway on the upper west side about ).
just a photo of a very pretty church on park avenue on our way back downtown: st. barthelomew's episcopal church, built in 1916. this year it is celebrating the centennial of it's first service on park avenue (the parish was founded in 1835 and first resided at great jones street and lafayette place in the village).
korrina and i sang this in church this morning. songwriter peter mayer wrote the words to a beautiful church hymn my sister and i have always loved, alleluia, sing to jesus. i love both versions and korrina's and my hearts were filled with a joyous sadness to be singing it together in church today.
reverand ana spoke passionately about pursuing a green revolution in our everyday choices. our current government leaders may not care how our earth is abused, but our personal decisions can boost a grass roots rebellion. a person must start somewhere. we can start at home.
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the photos below were taken on my way home from church and after walking around downtown brooklyn with korrina (we visited the danish shop flying tiger for inexpensive candles, wrapping paper and various tchotchkes).
riding the q train over the manhattan bridge . .
(the mural behind the christmas trees above is by artist vicki khuzami and depicts specific writers, actors, artists, musicians and dreamers who have been drawn to life in greenwich village. it was painted in 2001 and you can see more of ms khuzami's murals on her website here.)
walking through washington square . .
oh! and i attended the anthroposophical society's advent spiral this evening.
it was a beautiful and peaceful beginning to the christmas season.
i thought i would join san this year for rebecca's december photo project: sharing a photo each day for the first twenty five days of december.
greg, morgana, chanda and i actually managed to have dinner together tonight, though it was ordered in from sushi on hudson since greg and i worked on grouting the tiles in the tub all day. they came in around 6 or 7 pm from a modern dance rehearsal for another alumni show with ellen robbins (scheduled for january).
we need to re-do the caulking again, also.
it's supposed to dry for twenty four hours, so we can't use the shower until tomorrow afternoon, and i had wanted to wash my hair before meeting korrina at church tomorrow.
i put up a few posts from thanksgiving, which you can start to see here.
