horrible facebook post about children being taken away from their parents at the Border. Then we have the Times article this morning about the two buildings on East Broadway adjacent to the co ops that have been there for years, and how the developers seem completely arrogant in their vision of what they are entitled to. These people lack any moral compass. How long must this go on---most of the people in the city don't want to recognize this problem. At least tonight I am going to the BAN meeting---some place where issues like these can be discussed. No complacency. Would really like to do something about this, but what? Let's see what the meeting offers.
Saturday evening: very disappointed in the Virginia Woolf take at Abrons Arts. I felt there was no real vision there at all. But seeing the play did give me a chance to say hi to Lindsay and have a nice talk with Mike I. We talked about supporting our friend Sibyl, who is having her solstice pageant on the morning of the 21st. If Mike goes, since he is actually a neighbor, maybe we can share a cab. Will work on it.
Yesterday a "normal" Sunday---visited Cobra in the early afternoon. Nice to see bartender Olivia again and had a nice baseball "check in" with my friend Kyle. Then it was back to South Fourth to visit with Clint and enjoy some good conversation, then back to Bushwick (believe it or not) where I hoped to hear some opera at the Starr Bar, but the opera people never appeared. So I had a nice conversation with the bartender Tatiana and left it at that. Was tired so headed home "early" (around 8:30) fell quickly asleep.
So in the end, what do we have? A world where ugly aggressiveness must be stopped, but also a world where it can all be forgotten as we talk of baseball or theater or movies or whatever. I meet so many people who seem to have "enough" so that issues of action are unimportant to them. Art and action---do the two really ever meet? That is all for now., will continue as the summer progresses.
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