Not much, by normal standards, but maybe you are being a little too hard on yourself, cityboy. Up at 5, over to your usual convenience store for your first cup of coffee at 6, a credit card monthly bill paid, bought some medium garbage bags ( you can never have enough of them) and, oh yes, finished Girl Gone, which I started two days ago. Did I mention Girl Gone in the last post---well, not the most powerful or unique of mysteries, but still interesting enough to take my mind off the one dimensional vision of the day that I am stuck with. Now I have to find another book to help me "escape", sadly nothing in my apartment seems very interesting to me. I check the used book store on Broadway near 81st for their books (I got Diane Keaton's memoir, which I really enjoyed, there for one dollar), but that is the only option so far. Next week, if the city enters stage 2, I think the Barnes and Noble near me will be open---there I can find something to buy---maybe, if it is allowed, browse there a little bit. I would love that. Meanwhile, I will reconsider the ten or so books in my apartment, and maybe I can find one of them with some interesting stuff.
I just subscribed to two months of the Baltimore Sun. First time I have done that--it comes very cheap. Why? Because Johns Hopkins and Baltimore is the only other city that I have actually "lived" in, so I feel familiar and invested in what is happening there. Baltimore is so opposite to New York, for the most part, incredibly low lying, lots of empty spaces---no brutal demand for land---and a warm, laid back feeling in the neighborhoods that I visit when I visit there. Of course, it also has a black population living in very poor conditions, that seem totally cut off from the rest of the city. And most of the other neighborhoods in the city are middle and working class, and fairly diverse. The challenge is to bring up these poor neighborhoods---I have not followed the protests there but hopefully, helping those neighborhoods will be part of the result of the upheaval we are all living through now At any rate, getting the Sun every day will fill me in on how the city is coming back
from the pandemic, and solving its problems.
Nothing much else---still monitoring my stomach problems carefully---and on Sunday I streamed a really excellent documentary called "Down A Dark Stairwell" an examination in depth of the murder
of Akil Gurley, a black man who was killed in the Pink projects in East New York when he was sitting on a stairwell, talking to a friend, and the gun of a police officer, making a vertical search, accidentally went off. The film looks at the aftermath from both sides---and since the event took place in 2014, seems very prophetic for today.
Finished--will report soon.
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