Sunshine glints through the trees onto the park bench where I sit. Birds chirp. The dogwood’s flowers are greenish now. However, it’s a city scene of small stores, Thai restaurants, a subway station, traffic, trash trucks, and parents walking their children to school.
In the park/playground, eight women dressed in red, exercise to music I don’t understand. The large group of South Korean ladies moves in harmony in another area to different music. Beside me, a lone Chinese man slowly points a sword in his alone dance. Behind me, music begins – a lonesome wailing. I hear a fan pop 🪭 and move to watch the five women, each with two fans, slowly wave, close, and pop open the deep blue, bright red and white, and yellow fans. Such a pretty sight!
Little children swing. The park employees clean. Lone people exercise. There are other groups. Music throbs. A bicyclist passes through, and (no kidding) a man trims his toenails (we live our lives in the open in NYC).
I used to bring Little Bee here. (I miss her.) One time her and I met a Christian outreach team from Guntersville, Alabama, here. They knew about The Barn that our friends rent out. Anything is possible in this small park just two blocks from home. Tibetans dance Wednesday evenings. Competitive basketball games happen on Sunday. The best hacky sack guys play here most evenings. There’s a volleyball net and a ping pong table. Drunk bums hang out here; church groups show compassion to these.
Come and see! Berniece
An Ordinary Life 
Good morning, Friend! I love reading your glimpses of NYC and hope to get back someday. With four out-of-state daughters and my 98 year old Mother in Wisconsin now, that’s where we go. We went to visit Melvin’s sister and family at Finger Lakes and to our daughter and family at Belleville at Easter time. In May Lee and Lorraine visited us and we enjoyed a day in the Smoky Mountains together. Saw bear in the wild and rode the open chairlift to see the view from the top. That had been on my “bucket list”. Now in June we visited Mother at Autumn Leaves for three days. I also have a brother and sister at Almena. I just picked and washed a bunch of fresh spinach from our garden. Today I take Jodi, our somewhat handicapped ministers adult daughter to fold laundry at the hospital. She loves her Job! Love, Janet
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