Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama Thankfully, I still get renewed, refreshed, and
reinvigorated by my almost weekly sojourns to New York City. I’m not getting my passion for the Big Apple
out of my system, instead it grows.
Slept, again, for most of the bus ride down after work Thursday night to
get home just before Kristi, so we had a late night chat.
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| Prune |
Friday
we shared a lovely late lunch at Prune in the East Village (1St
street between 1st and 2nd Avenues) which unbeknownst to
us was just rated Best Brunch in New York by Zagat.com. It is very funky with great food. Kris then met friends to work on a script,
and I meandered all of Bleeker Street from Nolita (North of Little Italy) to
the West Village, popping into shops along the way, buying a really cute hat at
a pop-up designer store and awesome breads from the Village shop of Amy’s. (In Union Square, a homeless man told me he
loved my hat! I, unlike my Girls, am not
a hat person, so I figured homeless in NYC have certain style, I had done
alright!)
Saturday
I had a lovely hibernating and digging into a project I brought down to the
Hx3. My much beloved Maternal Uncle was quite
a letter writer. I have almost 3o years
of letters he wrote to my Grandmother, starting when he entered St. John’s
Seminary at the age of 18 in 1945 to my Grandmother’s death in the early 1970s.
I started reading these, what fun, a
true pleasure…I am going to do something
with these, unsure what!
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| Ice Sculpture of Belvedere Castle |
Late
in the afternoon, I decided to stretch my legs and get some fresh air.
I walked over o the Park, Central Park, that
is.
God, I love saying that!
There was an Ice Festival going on at the
Belvedere Castle, so I meandered around that area, enjoying the show, and the people
watching.
From the Central Park website:
"Right now, the temperature in Central Park is
…"
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| Belvedere Castle |
New Yorkers and regular visitors
know that phrase well from television and radio broadcasts. But not many know
that temperature is recorded from atop Belvedere Castle.
Since 1919, the National Weather
Service has take measurements from the castle's tower with the aid of
scientific instruments that measure wind speed and direction. In a fenced-in
compound just south of the castle, other data such as the rainfall is recorded
and sent to the weather service's forecast office at Brookhaven National
Library on Long Island.
Before it was equipped with
meteorological equipment, Belvedere Castle was a Victorian folly. Calvert Vaux,
co-designer of Central Park, created the miniature castle in 1869 as one of its
many whimsical structures intended as a lookout to the reservoir to the north
(now the Great Lawn) and the Ramble to the south.
After decades of deterioration, the
Central Park Conservancy renovated and reopened the castle in 1983.
Belvedere provides the best and
highest views of the Park and its cityscape. It's fitting, considering its name
translates to "beautiful view" in Italian.
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| The Member's Dining Room at the Met (fromit's website) |
Sunday,
I met the lovely young Lady who I enjoyed getting know when we volunteered at
the Global Citizen’s Concert in Central Park in the fall. Alex is very involved with a Christian Church,
C3Manhattan. I’m feeling a “need” for
something, so I checked it out. On the
fence, I’ll attend some more, I did like the ritual of the Catholic Mass, but
have simply decided that I don’t wish to part of that anymore…I’m thinking
organized religion may not be for me anymore.. Kristi and I met mid-afternoon at
the Met where we indulged in a wonderful Brunch in the Member’s Dining Room, an
early Birthday celebration for her.
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| Cipriani Dolci (thanks to Steve R on Yelp) |
Monday I had a long leisurely lunch, taking advantage of Restaurant Week,
at Cipriani Dolce in Grand Central with another lovely Lady, Muriel, who I met
at the Signature theatre a few months ago.
Dare I say it? I’m making friends
I New York City!
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