A Day of Quiet Progress

Things are looking a little better around the blog these days. Finally was able to do some HTML today– it’s still a work in progress, but I am experiencing such relief at being able to progress at all.

This has been a day of little steps of this sort: I painted two walls a deep eggplant, the color of wine. Installed a new showerhead. Hot grits with ayurvedic spices, stewed bananas. NPR my constant companion throughout this day.

I have been writing so much, so many words flowing out from me in the looping script of my journal. I have a new project of writing about the harbor and the river each morning when I cross the Manhattan Bridge on the subway. The conditions change so dramatically from day to day– it makes me feel connected to the natural world that exists as the larger context of this city, to the ghostly Manahatta of yesteryear. Walt Whitman is more with me, and more in my imaginings, than he might suppose. Who knows but he is with me now.

The needs for stimulation and self-expression are tormenting me. I want to make everything, but I haven’t the supplies. I can’t yet afford to rent studio space anywhere I might have access to a letterpress. I haven’t any cloth for quilting, or dressmaking, or rug hooking (the craft of poverty, according to Wikipedia.)

I would like to garden. Roof garden. Permaculture.
I’m looking for poppy seeds to make the traditional poppy seed roll I loved as a kid.
Soon I will buy a new bicycle. I like the look of the Electra Amsterdam cycles!
Graduate School– I am considering going into Occupational Therapy. I need to take a year of science prerequisites and am in the process of figuring out how to do that.

I’ve been modeling for art classes at the School of Visual Arts, and I love that. Fulfills a bohemian ideal I imagined for myself when I was younger. I like the stillness, the focus that slows my mind to a quiet murmur. It’s an extremely meditative experience for me.

I have some Yoga Passbook reviews to catch up on. Coming soon:

• Prana Power Yoga
• Golden Bridge Yoga
• Sankalpah Yoga
• Yoga Sutra