Richard, if visual images are what you like, why don't you try writing a poem?! In the meantime, if nothing else, you can continue keeping us all entertained with your descriptions on the blog. You're lucky you have talent in different areas. I used to do photography and play the trumpet, but now my "talent" is narrowed down to one thing, writing.

lori, i hope i am in the wrong profession. writing could be fun, if i could do it well and in a visual way. i really don't think that i could. visual images are what i like about yeats, elliot, and pound. i haven't read a good one by them in a while. i realize they aren't writing new ones. i just don't know if they have more good ones that i have not found. visual stuff is what gets me out of my head and that is all i really want.

hey all, my pastors @ our new church found blogger and created their own news. Our church is ChurchAtTheGrove.com great things are happening fast and its exciting. I'd never been envolved with starting a church before and we are getting ready to go to TWO services on sundays now. We have plans of "planting" another one in 3 years. We cater to the "turned off" people or ones who never went or have any background in religion. Its both challenging and exciting. We all (our generation) take so much for granted, so many of the under 30 crowd don't have any knowledge biblically speaking. God Bless ya'll. Hope to see you in June.

Maybe you're in the wrong profession, Richard. You should take up writing!

hi karen and all, one thing that can be said about big cities is that they do have great hospitals and thanks be given for that. my memories are not of great hospitals and you know i feel blessed. this trip will be memory lane for me. i will see the musical performance i mentioned with an old best friend. the music will be great and the conversation will be long overdue. i will also be in the city for two more nights and will take it on my own. i will travel outside the city for business meetings each day and then return to nyc each night. i am staying in a quiet spot way downtown. it is the spot where indians sold the island for a minor amount of beads. a bronze merrill lynch bull is transfixed there as if the grass that grows beneath its sullen stare might indicate where you might ever find a deal like that, now. it is as if the epicenter of capitalism exploded right there on that spot centuries ago and left behind a kind of eye in the storm because it really is very quiet, especially after 5:00. of course, we all know that it is a case of lightning striking twice with the emptiness of the world trade center only two or three blocks away. nothing is simple and i am sure that i will be reminded. i have not been to ground zero since the day i stood on top of the world trade center with my family one year before it fell. without a doubt that will be a slice of what i see. the street vendor with felafals and dripping veggies, pita and sauce is still there in my mind and may be back by now. walking through chinatown on chinese new year and remembering fireworks exploding under my friend's ass as he tried to light a bottle rocket- that is a memory that never leaves me. i am sure other memories will come back. i hope so.

My husband took me to NYC a long time ago (1985) to see a show. I had no idea what "O Calcutta" was about...needless to say, I blushed through the whole thing.

Have fun in NYC, Richard. They must be really good if you're making a special trip there to hear them. Then again, NYC is fun with or without a show. There's so much to see just walking around there....