\t\t\t\ttoo beautiful a day to waste working, i went for a long walk, to Calvary
\nand environs, via Van Dam Avenue, which is a relatively new route for me.
\nI ussed to take that path back once in a while, but not so much for the
\nforward trek. the crosswalks set up at Queens Plaza make that path more
\npalatable, but the queens plaza quagmire is no less scary than ever. in
\nfact it has new dangers, by my estimate, including a very scary turn in
\nthe road around which i see cars racing and flattening human beings who
\nare crossing with the light. i also rediscovered the value of the subway
\nunderpass as an escape from the quagmire.<\/p>\n
i spotted a man and a woman at the cemetery today, sitting on the grass
\nand talking. i don’t know if they were visiting a particular grave, but it
\nlooked like they were just out there enjoying the day. i envied them that,
\nenvying the guy especially, for i wish i had a hottie i could take to
\nCalvary once in a while. i used to, and some in the FIlm Photography
\nsection of sorabji.com is a picture of said hottie on one of our visits to
\nthe yard. “Picture of the Year” for 2009, oh yeah. I love that shot. But
\nour times together were always so rushed and secret. I most loved our trip
\nto the Bronx Zoo. it was the type of outing i wish we could have done
\nwhenever the hell we felt like it.<\/p>\n
anyway, not that i get too wistful about that hottie, but just saying that
\ni envied those two i saw at Calvary today, near the mighty Johnston
\nMausoleum.<\/p>\n
i found the money i left for myself on Review Avenue, and added some more
\ncoin to the stash. some day it might come in handy, but mostly it is just
\nan amusing little joy to find it there any time i pass by. it is
\nsomething, is it not, to recognize and have a connection with a single
\nstone on a massive wall of stones?<\/p>\n
i have not been carrying a cell phone around of late. i don’t miss it. as
\na newly-single individual i find that no one has any reason to urgently
\ncontact me, so i leave the phone at home and use it as i would a land line
\nwith an answering machine. i have no intent of cancelling the cell or
\ngoing full neo-luddite, but i find that the lack of noise entering my
\nlife through that cell phone is a stimulating thing, and the needless
\naccess to continuous availability and continuous access to others is
\neasily eliminated, at least for me, and at least for this particular place
\nin life.<\/p>\n
this may seem like an odd thing to be interested in, but i used a bathroom
\nat Calvary today that i never knew existed. i thought there was only one,
\nby the Greenpoint Avenue entrance, but I saw today that another one exists
\nby the Laurel Hill gate. it’s in a small building which i assumed was
\nutility closet. in fact, it’s a shitter. i just never saw that little
\nbuilding with its door opened. what a shocker. a shitter shocker.<\/p>\n
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