stapeliad: City Floating & I Got Adopted

Sunday, March 27, 2022

City Floating & I Got Adopted

After I left The Morgan Library, I floated downtown. If you have ever lived in a big city you will know what I mean. City Floating is something I think only either a local or experienced city-dweller can do, because you aren't trying to take everything in. There is no novelty. Its slower and more internal, and more of a natural thing. You have to be able to feel the city and be part of it to do it. It's an environmental absorption and it's also a two-way communication.

Dru knows what I mean. Hi Dru!

Anyhow, I City-Floated downtown.
Daya has been in New Jersey visiting a friend and she gets home this evening.
I wanted to make us a nice dinner, which meant Trader Joes.
The one on 14th street.

I floated down Madison Ave until I got to Madison Sq Park. There was a weird art installation and a cool exhibit on local plants.

Honestly, this weird installation is over my head. Is it ... chairs for trees?
I don't know.

If you are very curious you can read the sign. I did not.

This was in Madison Sq park, 23 and bway.

Next up on my floating journey was Union Square.
I walked past Barnes & Noble.
As I did so, I literally thought, "I don't need to go in there."

AND THEN,

I SAW THIS BOOK IN THE WINDOW:

Wow, doesn't that look COOL?

I went in, thinking a book featured in the front window should not be too hard to find.

Well, I sure was wrong about that.
The B&N at Union Square, if you have not been in there, is 3 large floors.
I looked everywhere on all three floors.

It turned into a scavenger hunt.
I lost the scavenger hunt and had to admit defeat.
That meant asking someone.

As it turned out there were only 2 copies of this book left in the store and they were both in the front window. They took it out of the window for me.

I looked at it and it is amazing so I bought it.
Kedrin says sometimes books adopt us. She gets it.