2 encounters on this groggy cloudy morning. One person on (the wrong) bus heading down from Greenpoint, Marisol. I had never met anyone named Marisol before, but it’s apparently a very common Puerto Rican name. We talked shoes and clothing swaps (I started the convo by asking if her platforms were the kind that help [...]

Today I met a registered nurse who teaches others how to be nurses. Added flare? The bestest fedora and yellow sweater vest. I hope he emails me back so I can get him the name of this great hat store in Brooklyn! (I forget both his and the hat store’s name.. sigh)
“The Subway is my [...]

From Deep Economy by Bill McKibben, apparently Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied dozens of activities to see what actually made Americans happy. He found that volunteer work of all kinds generated “high levels of joy, exceeded only by dancing.”
Go get your groove on.

So I’m starting a really fun little project for myself.
While in the throws of the morning commute, I found myself suddenly engulfed in a dense mass of slow moving people bottlenecked at the transfer stairway from the L to the NQRW lines. Looking up from my book, I was a bit taken a back by [...]

A memory from the first day of my 26th year. This was maybe the best birthday yet. Here’s to a great history and year to come.

birdcall
A little late night bird call