Spotted on the Train: January 13, 2015

 Someone thinks they remember their grammar lessons.

From wikipedia:
Stet is a form of the Latin verb sto, stare, steti, statum,^[1] originally used by proofreaders and editors to instruct the typesetter or writer to disregard a change the editor or proofreader had previously marked. This usage of the verb, known as the "jussive subjunctive",^[2] derives from the active-voiced third-person subjunctive singular present and is typically translated as "Let it stand".^[3]

Conventionally, the content that included the edit to be disregarded was underlined using dashes or dots and stet written and circled above or beside it.^[3] Alternatively, a circled tick or checkmark could be placed beside the content in a margin.^[4]

Found via Google Image search on STET

~photos by iTouch

Signs of vacation

These are the signs of vacation:

I need smore smores and smore zzzzzzzzz.

-iTouch

Photos: parents; target (2); michael's crafts

Pay Attention to the Signs

It's important to pay attention

to the signs...

to people rocking out in the subway 

or being a caped crusader on his appointed rounds or ...

to look up out the window and see the light beaming through the darkness

 and peaking between the seats.

All iTouch

All randomly last month.

Photo of the Day: Play it Buddha

 

"You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day - 

unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour."

~Zen Proverb

Or just chill like this Buddha, strumming your guitar on a random awning on the East Side.

I get bored sitting in meditation. I'm better walking or baking.

Spring has sprung - and is Leaf-ing me behind

Despite the advertising, it would still take more than an hour here to change my mood. 

Happy hour? Ha! It's time for:

Sometimes life is sweet, sometimes life is the pits.

Flowers and herbs as far as the eye can see. 

It was a Farmers Market Thursday in the concrete jungle. 

 I am full of impatiens for the spring.

Just pretend that this is as sage as I am.

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Azaleas

When you turn away from seeing me
and go,
gently, without a word, I shall send you away.

From Mount Yak in Yongbyon,
azaleas
I shall gather an armful and scatter them on your way.

Step after step away
on those flowers placed
before you, press deep, step lightly, and go

When you turn away from seeing me
and go,
thought I die, no, not a single tear shall fall.

from Korean poet Kim Sowol’s classic collection, Azaleas, translated by David R. McCann








all photos via the iTouch

Signs of Sage Advice

Photo of the Day: Where is the Day Going?

Spotted in Chelsea, NY, October 2012

Photos of the Day: Let the Art Speak for You

Ever had one of those weeks?

 

 When it just feels like?

 Despite the

So, do a little

Thank you, thank you very much! I slay me too.

You can make art out of anything.

 It's all how you look at, and frame it.

Photos courtesy of the Graphic Design-Now in Production exhibition put on by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum that was housed on Governor's Island, summer 2012.

Oh, and Amelia. Cause, well ... Look at her.

Photo of the Day: One Door Opens?

Spotted in Chelsea, October 2012

Summer Weekends 2012: Signs from Summer Streets

Summer Streets was held again this year. From 7am to 1 pm, the first three Saturdays in August parts of Park Avenue from 72nd Street south to the Brooklyn Bridge are closed to automotive traffic.

It's a good way to explore another part Manhattan. What with my wanderings this summer, I'm finally starting to get a sense of parts of this place from the ground level.

The Saturday I went, I started north of the prescribed area and wandered south from 96th to 14th Street. It was hazy, hot, and oh, so humid, so I wandered alone on the streets aside from runners, dog walkers, doormen, and the bikers out early in the morning until I got to the Grand Central area--when it really started to get crowded.

Along the way, I let the scenery begin to speak to me - and started to see some amazing street signs/urban art.

I was encouraged to write.

I got some new perspectives on the City. (I could have flipped these, but I think a new way of looking at things is a little illuminating once in a while.)


I started looking at utility poles and boxes for little surprises.

The Park Avenue Amory is proud of itself.

Meanwhile ...


The music nerd that I am wants to know more about the metronome.
And I'm starting to see these tags more and more often throughout the City.

I first spotted one of these last year -- now I'm on the lookout all the time.