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| Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:37PM | | | | a midsummer night's dream | Tags: psyche, midsummer, august, 2008, ranson, sadi ranson, PEN, tant mieux, editorial, a word, opinion, dreams, dream
| | | | It is officially Midsummer, which means that I am becoming officially depressed. Or perhaps I will. I can't say yet. It's something I am fighting as I learn that summer does not have to be the "end" of something but that rather, it can be a beginning. Any ending is also likewise a beginning. When we are awake, our waking life, is no less rich than our dream life. In fact, I could argue that my dream life is far more valuable and true than my waking life these days. My waking life is full of fact and work and sometimes hurt (miscommunications, the sort of thing that has you yearning and bending your ear to Glenn Campbell's Wichita Lineman, a song I have always... | | | | | | | Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:39PM | | | | shine bright at Grand Central | Tags: grand central, nyc, grand central station, sadi ranson, tant mieux, shoeshine, a word, editorial, edit, inhabited lives, life stories, journalism, short-short, prose, sadi ranson-polizzotti,
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Michael has a stand of high chairs with foot-rests all built upon a sturdy oak wooden frame with arm-rests. He is a shoe-shine guy. He is standing under the shelter of the overhang of Grand Central Station on 42nd and Lex. in front of his shoe-shine booth. This makes sense - a good place for a booth - for it provides shelter for anyone who wants to get their shoes shined even while it's raining out, so the weather has no affect on Michael's business.
I'm standing outside of the Grand Central, waiting to meet my friend M. I have on a silk dress, flat ballerina flats (Michael notes that they are patent leather - "nice," he says. "Shiny."), and... | | | | | |
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