Bird Song of the Day
The sound on this a bit low, but it really reminds me of the prairie.
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data, with now a little help from the Northeast. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap?
Gem Spa Is Auctioning Off Its Iconic Sign, Awning, Egg Cream Fountains & More
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Back in May, East Village landmark Gem Spa announced that they were closing for good after almost a century at the corner of St. Marks Place and Second Avenue. The store had struggled in recent years with losing their license to sell cigarettes and lottery tickets, and rent increases and the pandemic turned out to be the final straw.
Gem Spa is now auctioning off some of the most iconic objects from its store, including the landmark yellow-emblazoned Gem Spa sign; gates featuring work by renowned artist Paul Kostabi; their egg cream sign; the Gem Spa Sign which appeared in the film
I used to be .
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This is a poem saved in my Favourite Poems folder, and one of those I use when teaching young people - and many older ones too - that poetry is not necessarily the rhyming kind we were taught to write in school, often with words tortured to fit the end of a sentence so it rhymed ‘correctly’!
Some poems make us pause. They evoke thoughts; stir the imagination.
I Used to Be but Now I Am
by Ted Berrigan
But now I am elusive.
I used to be the future of America,