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My little sideshow of nostalgia

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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New York, nostalgia, pets, postaday2013, walking

Today my hubby, the baby boy, Jack and I went into the city via subway to walk around the village, NoHo, SoHo and all around the general area. Jack was such a well behaved little man both on the subway and walking the streets of New York. When we got to my old stomping grounds of Washington Square Park, Astor Place and Cooper Union, I did feel a strong surge of nostalgia for the younger me and my adventures back then. I took pictures of the back of the building on Lafayette Street that used to house the Conran’s Store and its Marketing, Advertizing and Catalog Departments, I could see my former huge window that was the wall of my cubicle on the second floor. I took two pictures of the facades of several buildings on Lafayette Street and my window was the long rectangular one right above the red traffic light in the red and cream colored building. My job as Catalog Coordinator was definitely never boring, quite challenging at times and always fun.

The other pictures are of views that I found to be interesting and pretty. Cooper Union is one of New York’s universities with an impressive history especially for those who identify as progressive; it was founded on the concept of free education and I know that Theodore Roosevelt spent many hours at Cooper Union after his years at Harvard, I think that it was in the pursuit of his law degree.

Jack was such a trooper today, he sat on my lap without making a peep during the forty minute subway ride, he walked for a few hours and then back on the subway for the forty minute ride back. He also acted like a well mannered dog while we eating at a small French restaurant on Hudson Street called La Petite Abeille (the little bee) we ate outside and he stayed quietly next to us waiting for us to finish our Eggs Benedict. Today was definitely a good day, I have more to tell but it will have to wait until tomorrow. I’m pooped myself.

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The daily prompt :Burnt, lamenting the things you couldn’t save

31 Thursday Jan 2013

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fires, mementos, nostalgia, postaday2013, saving, sentimental value, value

The daily prompters have been on a negative bend lately. Their latest is to write about the items that you couldn’t save from your “burning home” and to tell them how it makes you feel. It’s difficult typing from the couch which is what these prompts have been making me think of, sessions on the therapists couch, but these are really sad, hang on while I grab myself a box of Kleenex.

The baby boy drew this veloceraptor at the tender age of 5

The baby boy drew this veloceraptor at the tender age of 5

the baby girls entrance into the art gallery at the fair when she was four

the baby girls entrance into the art gallery at the fair when she was four

 

the baby boy's self portrait when he was 14

the baby boy’s self portrait when he was 14

the baby girl's first oil painting when she was 10

the baby girl’s first oil painting when she was 10

These are the art works that I would have been crying my eyes out as the “flames” were engulfing my home. Both of my children absolutely loved coloring, drawing, painting and everything else to do with hands on artistic expression. It was wonderful and each year; my mother-in-law proudly entered both of their masterpieces in the Blandford Art fair. However for some reason, once they both entered adolescence, their fascination and interest in art  went away completely. That is why these pieces, we have more, are so precious. They are irreplaceable since they both refuse to pick up a crayon, a piece of charcoal or a paintbrush. I know the talent is there in both of them, but they aren’t interested in pursuing it so I have to hang onto my precious masterpieces, because I will never get another piece of art work out of either one of them again. Sniff, sniff.

 

 

 

 

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