Saturday, July 29, 2006
Goodbye All
It's been wonderful. I'll still write, but for free. I'll miss reading, but time doesn't permit me to do as much online reading anymore and I don't want it to become perfunctory. I look forward to meeting your words again, perhaps in a magazine or bookstore. Have a wonderful August!!!!
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Friday, July 7, 2006
Bureaucrats Benign
witnessed yesterday at 4:00 p.m. I walk into the black monolith that is the Dep't of Ed. headquarters in NYC. I expect the usual brush offs, "I don't know"s and "sorry I can't help"s but, instead I get three incredibly kind, helpful people who go out of their way to entertain my son, spend a lot of...
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Thursday, July 6, 2006
It Takes a Village
witnessed Saturday in the park My son was learning to ride a two-wheeler. When he'd leave me, he'd go hundreds of feet before stopping. Invariably, someone would help him up, help him take off, even walk his bike back toward me if he seemed hurt. I'd run as fast as I could to get to the good...
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Friday, June 30, 2006
Safety Catch
witnessed 9:30 p.m. Coney Island crowd walking back to the car before the fireworks man stops my friend "Your purse is open. You should zip it." She should...she does... she says thanks.
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Safety Catch
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Begging/Forgiveness
told to me today at 11:30 a.m. So, a woman was riding the bus and her wallet disappeared from her handbag. Another passenger told her that the woman who was just getting off the bus took it. She begged the driver to stop immediately. He did. She chased the pickpocket down and begged, "My children's...
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Friday, June 9, 2006
Grateful Grad
witnessed 11:45 Mom and son on way to elementary school graduation Mom parks and feeds meter Man calls to her from van at light "Hey, that's a street cleaning zone after 11:30." She complains about the quarter, but is grateful as a ticket giver comes just as she's getting back in the car.
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Thursday, June 1, 2006
witnessed 6:30p.m.
Children from elementary schools are writing letters to ask our lawmen for dollars to build a temporary ice rink so that children have something to do in the winter in our abandoned double olympic-sized pool.
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yesterday at 4:30p.m.
went to buy smokes guy who I only buy smokes from says I should quit obviously, that'll be no more business from me but he'd rather I quit He asks if I didn't quit before...why did I start up again? Great to get encouragement from someone who has everything to lose by my quitting.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
witnessed 9:something this evening
Man tells child to put the soda can she finished on the fence next door to mine so that somebody who needs the five-cents can pick it up tonight and won't have to dig through the recyclables.
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