True Happiness makes itself known in so many ways but not as often as it can in NYC (or so it seems)
a few Sundays ago I took a long stroll around the East Village (My neighbourhood) the sun was shining people where playing ball, keepee uppee, Badmington, frisbe and believe it or not! body beautifuls where showing off in there bikinis!! whist sun bathing. You could go as far as to say it was as a
HEEAT WAVE!
I would go as far as to say the first day of spring had arrived in the now very crowded Tompkin Square Park.
I could knew it was a small sample of things to come!
TOMPKIN SQUARE PARK
The Park is about two blocks Square. The Park itself is split into zones come take a stroll with me I'll show you around.... ...imagine
Old men where playing chess (when they where not admiring the bikini girls playing volley ball).
Kids selling lemonade and cookies from a make shift stall
A market set up on Avenue A selling home grown / farm produce
A group of local musicians strumming gitars, double base, Sax, trumpets, volins etc A kind of eclectic mix of street performers all playing Jazz and improvising amoungst themselves. There may have been a hint of mexican inspiration in there at some points too!
People where playing with there dogs in the dog run
………I was care free soaking in the vibrance
One of lifes perfect days
Not to mention the volunteers all gardening, planting out beds and cutting back overgrowth (I asked one of them if they needed any extra help next weekend Boy was that a mistake)
Well that weekend has just been and gone. I can still feel every muscle aching but understand that I have contributed to the immense sense of comunity that exists here and I feel better for the exercise
I will post some pictures next week of my endeavours.
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