Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

On the J-Train The J Train in Brookly, across the Williamsburg Bridge Arriving at Gates Avenue Beautification of Subway stops: Gates Avenue, Brooklyn One of 4.5 bathrooms (yes, I know!  It doesn't have a soap dish yet.  But one has to get exactly the Correct Soap Dish!  This bathroom is a beautiful grey and white, although it doesn't look like it here.  It also is a fairly large bathroom--I guess I have to spring for a wide-angle lens like all those other people! Oh yes.  Indoor plumbing!  What a gift, even without soap dishes and towel racks! Mission for the day (should you choose to accept it): 1.  Enter into a bathroom; one with tub or shower.  Avoid gas stations, for example. 2.  Revel in the beauty and convenience of Tile!  Think what a mess the average shower might make without it. 3.  Check out the very simplicityof a water repellent floor!  Nothing fancy, just tile, tile, showers, water, toilets ...

Arriving at LaGuardia under an August full moon There's just something about bridges at night! Bridges over Manhattan

Find me. I am lost within a fleeting instant I wasn’t going in, I swear I wasn’t Not until I found you just a foot away swimming with laughter Find me. I am lost without a compass no roots holding me along the bottom no way to find the hanging strap I am lost without a mossy crevice Look for me again along the empty places I wasn’t going in, I swear I wasn’t I didn’t mean to get so far and never find a rudder or a raft   I didn’t mean to go so far without my safety line I wasn’t going in, but now I swear I would

Meet Sea, our newest water friend.   We were walking along the East River preparing to cast bread into the waters to begin a new chapter in life, and out of nowhere came Sea!  Sea loves to play Air Catch Player 1 prepares to cast a slice over the rail. We have found that casting away the turmoils of life is so much more beneficial if it also nourishes the creatures of the Sky as well as the Earth.    Player 2 casts a piece of homemade bread into the waiting wings of Sea.