Morning Music
Norah Jones - "Thinking About You"
Note: I remembered this song this this morning, when in a short pause in my run-walk across the park, I saw migrating monarchs flying in across the New York Bay - from the directions of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Ellis Island, make landfall on the Jersey shore, and struggling against the unusually strong headwind blowing in from east.
Fall is nearly here; Rilke's verses about homelessness are on my mind, as well as moments of transcendence on recognizing the fact that I, another migrant, am in the middle of one of the greatest and perennial migrations on our little planet. How can "thinking about you" be far behind?
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Bombay Beauty
migratory birds
I was thinking recently that in this country where I find myself I don't where the birds migrate to, if they do at all. I don't miss the plaintive cries of the Canada geese flying south, I don't miss the chill that foretells the cold, but I miss the melancholy. BB
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This season
in this city by the bay - people forget that NY is a coastal city - has plenty of that, yes, melancholy. Perhaps it is that dream like haze which fall light here dons that causes this?
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