inglorious wanderer

"To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for  the first time or last time. Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."   I  read "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" a long time ago  while growing up in my Third World country of origin. Never had I even imagined that I would one day live in Brooklyn, albeit briefly. A line of Anne Sexton’s poem titled “Rumpelstiltskin” inscribed on a panel at a Brooklyn Heights street made me wonder about this living the moment  attitude in a borough where anyone  can "waste something once in a while and get the feeling how it would be to have lots of money" while pouring a cup of coffee down the sink. "Poor thing: To die and never see Brooklyn".  Brooklyn is in the southernmost portion of Long Island, the southeastern part of New York. Long Island consists of 4 counties namely: Kings County which is more commonly called Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk. Long Island is bounded by the ...

I don't know how I ended up at Washington Square. I was supposed to be following signs for Christopher and 7th Streets. From George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal, I found my way into the 181st Street Subway station and caught either the  1 Train or the A Line.  About 45 minutes and some 22  stops later, I got off  at Christopher Street and Sheridan Square.  I arrived at the intersection of Christopher, Grove and Fourth Streets some time later after walking around in circles. And there's Christopher Park on Christopher Street.   Both park and street  are  named after Charles Christopher Amos. Charles Christopher was a relative of Richard Amos, a trustee of the estate Sir Peter Warren.   Sir Peter Warren was a British naval officer who owned 300 acres of land along the Hudson River waterfront where today's Lower Manhattan is located.  The estate was part  of the  tobacco farm developed by Wouter Van Twiller, a...