Eating with the Dead!
Mad rush hour, perfect foundation and powder combo faces, crisp formal wear but the easy to walk sneakers/chappals, men and women with an urgency alike…yes this is the famous maddening Manhattan: the place of mother of professionalism. Sucked into my second week, I am enjoying a change from the human scaled DC to a behemoth scaled NYC
First day at work my friendly colleague Ms. Muddy Girl introduced herself and took an oath of introducing me to the co-workers she knows given the fact that she was just a month old at work. I pat her silently in my imagination of being a helpful soul. Now this Ms. Muddy Girl is a lady who loves the City, attributes her present day life and events to it , plainly put she basks in being called a New Yorker. I have occasional lunching sessions with her at the plaza near our bldg. amidst an exchange of inputs from our vastly different lifestyles…..
Coming back to the present 2nd week I was introduced to Ms. Horns and was asked out for lunch by her and my eternal Ms. MG. Went to a Polish deli, bought a 3”X4” sandwich as a take-out as the weather demanded attention by being delightfully bright.
And then we walk up to Trinity church and into the graveyard next to it!! The cemetery is on the west side of Broadway which is known as "Canyon of Heroes" on that particular stretch. Aptly named; the graveyard houses the dignitaries next to the holy Trinity Church. The in-between spaces in the graveyard is being used as a paved walkway for what they term as "park in the cemetry".
The Hindu in me looked at it as a respectful place where the departed rests and the tombstones stand as an ode to their life ! An eerie feeling took over me; whereas the architect in me marveled at the brilliant use of the urban land and converting it into an interactive community space which is much needed in a cityscape.
I would promote and even suggest such ideas....but as a user hmmm….that’s an open ended one…..:-)
First day at work my friendly colleague Ms. Muddy Girl introduced herself and took an oath of introducing me to the co-workers she knows given the fact that she was just a month old at work. I pat her silently in my imagination of being a helpful soul. Now this Ms. Muddy Girl is a lady who loves the City, attributes her present day life and events to it , plainly put she basks in being called a New Yorker. I have occasional lunching sessions with her at the plaza near our bldg. amidst an exchange of inputs from our vastly different lifestyles…..
Coming back to the present 2nd week I was introduced to Ms. Horns and was asked out for lunch by her and my eternal Ms. MG. Went to a Polish deli, bought a 3”X4” sandwich as a take-out as the weather demanded attention by being delightfully bright.
And then we walk up to Trinity church and into the graveyard next to it!! The cemetery is on the west side of Broadway which is known as "Canyon of Heroes" on that particular stretch. Aptly named; the graveyard houses the dignitaries next to the holy Trinity Church. The in-between spaces in the graveyard is being used as a paved walkway for what they term as "park in the cemetry".
The Hindu in me looked at it as a respectful place where the departed rests and the tombstones stand as an ode to their life ! An eerie feeling took over me; whereas the architect in me marveled at the brilliant use of the urban land and converting it into an interactive community space which is much needed in a cityscape.
I would promote and even suggest such ideas....but as a user hmmm….that’s an open ended one…..:-)
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