Tag: Manhattan
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New York and the MTA Underground Art Museum
I love riding New York’s subway system – just not as much as I love walking the city. Riding necessitates paying attention to lines and stops and tracks – my mind can’t wander for fear of ending up in who-knows-where – but walking favours mental and corporeal freedom, especially when time holds no sway. However, my penchant for perambulation has its downside: walking New York… Read more
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Manhattan’s Divine Intervention
Unless you leave room for serendipity…how can the divine enter? ~Joseph Campbell A few minutes one way or the other, heading south instead of north, a conversation, a distraction, a photo or lunch. There’s no good reason I stepped into St. Paul’s Chapel at that precise moment and not another. Filled to the brim – standing room only… Read more
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Dipping a Toe in Urban Waters
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. – Henry Miller Husband and I spent an extended weekend in NYC, compliments of our friends Dan and Shaleen at Magellan Vacations. They flew us down and put us up in a gorgeous corner suite at the… Read more