early morning fourth of July...

 So, here I am, one week  from the port going in---have done very little investigation about what the first few days with it in will be like. What about the first night? Will normalcy take over immediately. A friend of mine has volunteered to be with me after the procedure and make sure that I get back to the apartment---but I don't know how long she can commit to. I will try to do some more investigating this week---not today, of course but there should be enough time to get some feedback from others who have experienced this procedure and gotten through it well. 

And what of today? What I have planned is a visit to my friend's bar, on Avenue C and 9th to watch the second Yankees Orioles game which begins at 1. After that, maybe hop on the L and go into Brooklyn, and do some visiting in Bushwick. Maybe....It has been a long time since I was there--it's not four or five years ago, when going out there was just like breathing. Of course all this is tentative---depending on my energy level-plans and options can change at any time---plenty of movies to check out if I want some alternative action.

Passion on the B train. Well, not quite, but Thursday afternoon, somewhat tired, yet comitted to visit a friend who was graduating from training to be a guide at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Got all my energy together---left early-then, as the B train was crossing from Manhattan to Brooklyn--all that light---he texts me that he has covid and is not going.  Frustrated..? Not really--it just meant some other options around BAM that I could explore. Ended up eating and watchng baseball at a very friendly and accepting bar on Fulton Street---still somewhat leery about going into bars with my condition, but this went very well. Then up the street to the Center for Fiction--again, a place I visited often in 2019---had a coffee and then went into their reading room and read for a while. It seemed to me I had entered a kind of paradise---I felt so good there---the calm, the energy just really got to me. Thought that I could just come there some morning with a book and just read all day, staying in that room. It won't happen today---they are closed for the holiday---but maybe do that soon.

So it is time to read. In the middle of Alls Well that Ends Well, and Antonio's Revenge by John Marsden, a contemporary of Shakespeare. Great contrasts-Marsden--so far--is all about plot and arc---some of Shakespeare's writing seems so much deeper and with more point.. Will continue today---will report soon.