Monthly Archives: January 2024

Snow Day In New York

January 18, 2024 – 5:37 pm

Winter used to be the season of cold. In 1978 a blizzard dropped three feet of snow on the Northeast. The suburbs were cut off from the cities by ten-foot drifts on the highways. I lived in the East Village. At night I clomped through the yellowing slush to CBGBs. Army boots and a leather […]

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First Snow In New York City 2024

January 18, 2024 – 9:05 am

No snow In New York City. Three years. Not cold neither. Yesterday Snow. Two inches Cold. Not Omaha cold -40. 20 degrees Fahrenheit c Cold. And sunny. The wind cruel cold Fort Greene Park. The snow trampled by thousands and thousands of feets. Each step immortal in the cold. Steps atop steps Like first city […]

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The Sierras All Around Me

January 15, 2024 – 10:48 am

A man in a snowy parking lot. The Sierras All around him. Early morning. 8:35AM The car packed. The engine running. Snow underfoot. The Sierras all around him Mount Rose gleams with fresh snow. Sunny. 30 degrees. It’s 38 in Tucson. Arizona. Over a thousand miles away. He turns around and looks at the ski […]

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America Now Same As Ever

January 15, 2024 – 4:46 am

Today is an important day in the American holiday calendar marking the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., who fought the forces of racism, saying, “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Sadly the forces of hatred ended the peacemaker’s life in Memphis. I would like to […]

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I’ve Been To The Mountaintop

January 15, 2024 – 3:44 am

On April 3, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee mostly about the ongoing Memphis Sanitation Strike. At the end of his call for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protest, the Man of Peace discussed the possibility of an untimely death. Like anybody, I would like to live […]

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