Today was filled with too many good things to recall but I will describe a few. First the remarkable weather must be mentioned. A bit muggy, but bright and warm for a mid September day during hurricane season. Then there was an entire morning free to write and prepare for my show with much accomplished before I head into the city for my friend Aze Ong's opening in Woodside, Queens. On the way I listened to this American Life on the radio. The source of my first good thing: the wind phone. After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan so many families were mourning the loss of loved ones. A man installed a phone booth in his yard overlooking the ocean. He used the phone to call his cousin who had been carried away in the tsunami because he said, "I wanted the wind to carry my message because there was no other way to reach him." News spread across Japan about the phone. Families traveled from far away to speak to their dead family members. It brought them a calm relief and sense of closure.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/597/one-last-thing-before-i-go?act=1
On the theme of airwaves, this is about radio. I reached the Topaz Gallery in Queens one half hour early and sat in my car to check e-mails. On Facebook I found a post from my son who had launched a new show - The Cabin Radio Show - every Saturday from 2-3 pm - blues and American folk music. I managed to catch the last 15 mins before heading into the gallery.
https://www.8ballradio.nyc/
Aze Ong and Ged Merino are Phillipine fiber artists from Manila who have been collaborating for a number of years. Ged wraps objects and Aze crochets room size sculpture.
Aze performs with her sculptures allowing the art's form to suggest the movement as she goes.
My day ended with a performance of the Trisha Brown Dance Troupe at Untermeyer Park in Yonkers - at fantasy Persian garden in the middle of the city. Sun set as the dancers did their amazing moves with dirty feet on the green lawns.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/597/one-last-thing-before-i-go?act=1
On the theme of airwaves, this is about radio. I reached the Topaz Gallery in Queens one half hour early and sat in my car to check e-mails. On Facebook I found a post from my son who had launched a new show - The Cabin Radio Show - every Saturday from 2-3 pm - blues and American folk music. I managed to catch the last 15 mins before heading into the gallery.
https://www.8ballradio.nyc/
Aze Ong and Ged Merino are Phillipine fiber artists from Manila who have been collaborating for a number of years. Ged wraps objects and Aze crochets room size sculpture.
Aze performs with her sculptures allowing the art's form to suggest the movement as she goes.
My day ended with a performance of the Trisha Brown Dance Troupe at Untermeyer Park in Yonkers - at fantasy Persian garden in the middle of the city. Sun set as the dancers did their amazing moves with dirty feet on the green lawns.
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