And every breath we drew was Hallelujah...

There are some days that just seem so infinitely beautiful for no reasons... and I think today was probably one of those.

It rained this morning, little drops of dirty water sliding down the window panes at Whole Foods. I sat upstairs in the dining area at Whole Foods on Bowery and Houston and watched it pour down on the sad people scurrying below. The city always has such a funny reaction when the rain first starts coming down. Look at that one guy in they corner, at first, he jerked violently as if bewildered and looks skyward, scanning the sky as if to make sure that the rain was indeed rain. Weather confirmed, he hunch his shoulders, shrink a little deeper into his jacket and walk just a tad faster down the street. It looks almost as if he's convinced himself that he can outrun the rain.

But that's the outside world. Inside my safe study haven, the lights are warm, the tables are clean and the foods are delicious. This place reminds me of Seattle... or more specifically, the Whole Foods that I always at lunch at during high school in Seattle.

From my comfortable table at the eastern end of the dining area, I can look outside into the rain, right into the park...

By noon, the weather had cleared up, I decided I've studied enough Macroeconomics for one morning and started heading home. On the way, I passed one of my favorite places in the world. There is a little park on Bowery and Houston across the street from Whole Foods. For most of the week it's closed and locked, but on Tuesday, Saturday and Sundays the gates are open to anyone who wants to venture in. Unlike the other parks in New York City, this one is full of foliage and and flowers and unpaved roads.

The funny thing is, it's caught right at the foot of an enormous apartment complex and at the intersection between in two extremely busy streets. But somehow, the trees and flowers and little stone paths seem to erase all that. It always feels as if I right back into the wilderness of Ravenna Park...

A good place to set your things down near the entrance, there's even a little Koi pond further into the park.

So much of my life feels like me making absolutes out of the relative things in my life.


 "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

 - Prince Philip (during the 1981 recession) 

Speaking of, can someone employ me? Just for the summer? I'm becoming increasingly more broke even as we speak...