Sunday morning...a week

yes, a week later---lots has happened in this time period. Two days at Friends, and at least two more this week. Getting "re-integrated"---seeing all the old faces, the warm greetings, the tasks at hand. Energetic---a complete contrast to the reality of the pademic and illness that has dominated my life for the past--what---nineteen or twenty months.  But it is Sunday---one more day until I go to work---and what is the agenda for today?

A good question. Perhaps a movie at the documentary festival over on 23rd street. Then what..? A visit to Formerly Crows, a bar owned by the gentleman who owned and ran South fourth street bar for the years that I visited there. At formerly Crows, I can probably watch a football game, something I have not been able to do these previous Sundays. That is one idea...any others...? Well, now I have the monthly pass, so I can basically ride the subways as much as I please---no extra cost. It means that the whole city is available to me. But how far do I want to go. Brooklyn seems a little bit out of bounds, at this point. Gosh! Remember the pre-pandemic Sundays when I took the subway to Cobra Club in Bushwick, then walked over to Molasses book store--then maybe the DeKalb avenue bus into the BAM area, then a stop at the Fiction Center---then---finally---around 7 or 8, and remember you left for Bushwick around 11, returning to the "barren" upper west side. Can I do that now,,,? Probably not---stamina and some medication issues.  Still, must get out---"see the world"---not just "hunker down" in the apartment as I did yesterday. Still some friends in off Broadway and off off plays. Only one week left....will I get to them?  Trying to figure that out. Hamilton's, a coffee sonhop I used to go to near 145 street has reopened as a coffee shop and bar. Seems like the place I might be welcome---nice to know it is there.

Continuing with Henry Roth's first novel of the group of five that he started in his late seventies. Penetrating---I have to stop reading for a while--the images and language really get to me. For the rest....