NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY, two blocks away. Yesterday afternoon. 

IT WAS COLD THIS MORNING and I almost didn’t go hold the sign. Below freezing my phone said. But I got ready and with a puffy orange coat over a sweater and a blue overcoat over that, I went. Not windy but everybody was bundled. The rest of the week, may be too cold. 

WHO NEEDS ANOTHER IMAGE OF JANUARY 6. But it was so terrible and the denial involved even worse, that I looked for an image online. Hard to pick an image. There are so many. 

GOING THROUGH SOME PHOTOS I RECENTLY TOOK: here’s one of some cookies my oldest NYC daughter and her daughter made. 

 

SOME CALLER on C-SPAN yesterday called Trump ‘fraudulent’ in all his dealings. Amen.

SOMETIMES, a pint or a half-pint of blueberries will be a buck or three. It fluctuates. The street vendors are always cheaper. When you figure in the packaging and the cost of getting them here from Peru or Chile by plane, and the truck that took them to the plane, think of how little the people who pick the berries in the vast fields make. 

THIS PHOTO. Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman with his mother and his wife. The mother part is what’s interesting. 

BACK WITH THE SIGN THIS MORNING. I’d been to Cleveland and then the big holidays. Two weeks. Long time away from it. Public schools are back in session today, so there were some familiar faces going by me. Sidewalk was only half busy though. Many people won’t come back till Monday. Friday will be dead probably. It’s become a slow day anyway. Good for me to be there though.

PHOTOS just texted from Wyoming. Oldest daughter from here and her twins have been staying with youngest daughter and family; three daughters she has. I’ll put the photos below, which may not interest you at all. I understand. But I felt like doing something with them. Top one is Wyoming daughter somewhere with her youngest daughter. Next are the NYC twins with the middle WY daughter on the right. Beneath them is WY daughter’s year-old store, just relocated to town. It sells furnishings. The NYC granddaughter loves it. That’s an in-town mountain; not the big Tetons. Bottom are the twins somewhere with the oldest WY kid, a senior in HS, in the foreground. Thanks for looking, if you did, 

IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a special book to start the year, or start your life, which is really why we watch or read anything, here’s one.