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I've not done much today, besides watch youtube videos, and attempt to work on my novel. I wrote three sentences. Also, took a quick walk to the pharmacy - during which mother called. Called her back - she's doing okay.
Should be released from the hospital tomorrow in her sister's care. Ten days of recovery at home.
I'm feeling lazy. Current plan is to check out either "Annette" or "Cruella" tonight. Cruella's got weirdly positive reviews. I watched the Cinderella revival on Amazon this morning - it was better than expected, or better than reported. There's a lot of crazy-ass musical critics online.
I've removed the phrase "just saying" from my vocabulary - why? It's mean and somewhat juvenile, and why go there?
9/11
It's impossible not to think about 9/11 and live in NYC. I know a lot of folks never want to forget, but I would like to, but the city alas will not let me.
Every night for the last two weeks I've seen the two strobe lights outside my living room window - which faces northwest and has no skyscrapers in the way. They light up the sky with the two platform strobe lights every year between September 1 and September 12.
Last year, they just showed the lights, but avoided the memorial and read the names virtually. This year, people are making pilgrimages to it all week long.
On FB, people are posting where they were and what they were doing on that day.
So here's mine, for anyone who is remotely curious:
( Where I was on 9.11.01 )
Some years later, many in fact, I visited the 9/11 Memorial. It was in 2018, and the sky was blue streaked with white clouds.
Below are photos of the memorial that I visited on that day.
( Read more... )
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Watching "Cruella" - which is interesting. Emma Stone and Emma Thompson are doing a wonderful job of chewing scenery. Fashion is as always? Impractical. What is odd - is the reviewers can't figure out how to get from it to 101 Dalmatians. I can see how. I wonder sometimes if folks can't see the structure of a narrative or story? And the themes? And how did they pass their English Lit courses?
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Random photo of the day...
The flowers at One World Trade Center...
Should be released from the hospital tomorrow in her sister's care. Ten days of recovery at home.
I'm feeling lazy. Current plan is to check out either "Annette" or "Cruella" tonight. Cruella's got weirdly positive reviews. I watched the Cinderella revival on Amazon this morning - it was better than expected, or better than reported. There's a lot of crazy-ass musical critics online.
I've removed the phrase "just saying" from my vocabulary - why? It's mean and somewhat juvenile, and why go there?
9/11
It's impossible not to think about 9/11 and live in NYC. I know a lot of folks never want to forget, but I would like to, but the city alas will not let me.
Every night for the last two weeks I've seen the two strobe lights outside my living room window - which faces northwest and has no skyscrapers in the way. They light up the sky with the two platform strobe lights every year between September 1 and September 12.
Last year, they just showed the lights, but avoided the memorial and read the names virtually. This year, people are making pilgrimages to it all week long.
On FB, people are posting where they were and what they were doing on that day.
So here's mine, for anyone who is remotely curious:
( Where I was on 9.11.01 )
Some years later, many in fact, I visited the 9/11 Memorial. It was in 2018, and the sky was blue streaked with white clouds.
Below are photos of the memorial that I visited on that day.
( Read more... )
***
Watching "Cruella" - which is interesting. Emma Stone and Emma Thompson are doing a wonderful job of chewing scenery. Fashion is as always? Impractical. What is odd - is the reviewers can't figure out how to get from it to 101 Dalmatians. I can see how. I wonder sometimes if folks can't see the structure of a narrative or story? And the themes? And how did they pass their English Lit courses?
**
Random photo of the day...
The flowers at One World Trade Center...