6.24.2012

#89 I went for a walk today








It's too hot in our 3rd floor apartment around 6:00 pm. I like to think that this is when all the hot air that's been collecting onto the pavement all day long reverses direction--in a slow bounce--and finds it's way into all the unsuspecting open windows on it's way back up out of the city for the night. It gets trapped with all that ceiling everywhere and makes the place something that would be toasty warm and cozy. if this were January. and there was snow boots by the front door. but there's not.  so I get out of the stuffy apartment where all the confused heat is and go where everything is moving around a little more. the street. my new streets. i took a walk three blocks north towards one of the busier streets and then doubled back through a vacant park, up alongside an old cemetery and back towards my apartment once the sun had officially tucked behind the tips of the furthest hill tops.


and snapped pictures of my favorite spots for you. isn't city texture exquisite?

6.02.2012


#88: paul simon: my home




No matter where I go, how I feel, who I'm with--or without--the minute I hear Paul Simon's voice I am home. Some little locked door behind my heart, right next to where my soul must be, bursts open and I remember everything that is good and right and lovely. Which is why, when I'm feeling like I need to recalculate, I listen to that man all day long. And then, just when I thought I couldn't love Mr. Simon anymore he goes a writes this song just for me on this long, lazy, quiet Saturday. My Pittsburgh adventure is forever marked.