another eye opens

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brunch at The Heron in Narrowsburg felt very much like we were in Williamsburg

then we slipped across the border to Shohola, PA — another world

Andy finally finished the baby sweater

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The chants of the day:

“Eric Garner! Michael Brown! Shut it down! Shut it down!”

“Hands up! Don’t shoot!”

“No justice! No peace! No racist police!”

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Andy and Sari at Bar Bossa in Soho (with namoradeira figurine)

bathroom at Bar Bossa

the new vegan fast-food joint on my block

so true

photo op at La Carafe on Ninth Avenue

in the afterglow of the Gamelan Kusuma Laras concert at Hofstra University — I get to play with some extraordinary musicians, most notably I. M. Harjito (our artistic director and teacher) and Peni Candrarini (exquisite Javanese pesindhen, or female vocal soloist) — pictured here with guest dancer and hilarious cut-up Anang Totok Dwiantoro

amaryllis are miraculous

Sixth Avenue in the Village

the Bob Dylan shelf (over 35 different titles) at the Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books store on Carmine Street

I love bitter melon but this is the first time I’ve seen it for sale at my local grocery store — eventually I’ll have to stop admiring the object and figure out how to prepare it…

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Andy and I flew down to join his family in celebrating his father’s 80th birthday. The day we left, rain up and down the Eastern Seaboard meant flights delayed and cancelled. We spent six hours in the Philadelphia airport, which gave us plenty of time to notice how fancy the food has gotten at airport concessions:

We were supposed to fly into Newport News but ended up in…

The next day was glorious — down South the colors were still turning.

Virginia is serious BBQ country. Also, colonial Williamsburg is a site that must be seen.

Fun hanging out with the family, including Andy’s cool Uncle George and his camera-shy granddaughter Karolina (below), Andy’s beloved niece and nephew Avery and Nathan, who are best of friends, and his sister Becky, brother-in-law Jason, and cousin Erika.

Saturday night was the big birthday dinner at the country club.