New York Streets
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
These streets are New York streets. In the spring, the trees and the sidewalks out front could be in a clearing in Central Park. The warm sun on the pavement could just as easily fall on old men’s shoulders and cast angles on chessboards and wrought iron tables. The sounds are almost identical, too – light conversation interwoven with the swishing leaves and squirrels jumping invisible in the darkest spots in the highest branches. Our neighborhood is half-a-continent away – further if measured by state of mind. The Heartland people are supposedly not as vocal and more practical as New Yorkers, but the calmness in all the activity makes the pleasure in it are the same for both. (more…)
