where have I been?

Where have I been, in thought, word, or deed?

I've been to:

• Brantingham, New York
• Lowville, New York
• Ava
• ignoring Facebook
  
• viewing Giants games
• commenting at the Giants blog (OneFlapDown77)
• visiting Len Assante at the Delavan Center
• watching artists' paint dry on the rail overpass on West Fayette Street, Syracuse, New York
• admiring Brantley Carroll's powerful photos of African-American fathers and sons
• drinking coffee at Freedom of Espresso, at Franklin Square
• finishing Martin Amis
• loving poetry by Bob Hicok
• Skyping with my brother Jack
• Skyping with Warren
• moving Evelyn to Philadelphia
• moving around the streets of Philly with Yann and Evelyn
• making vegetable soup with Beth
• sleeping
• waking
• walking
• writing gerunds
• not attending the Glenn Beck rally (no brownshirts available in the closet from the 1930s)
  
• editing a doctoral dissertation on the history of the Cayman Islands
• revising webpages for an international environmental and infrastructure firm
• watching webpage get little red dots under it alleging a misspelling
• getting ripped off at Santillo's at the Great New York State Fair when I could've ad Gianelli's sausage
• picking up Adri after she sprained her ankle
• going to the Blarney Stone with her at a fund raiser for coach Lutwin's kid and hs wife whose home burned on Tipperary Hill
• lost in space
• sweating
• cutting hedges
• mowing the knee-high lawn, which sounds vaguely Chinese
• asked Ethan about his birthday
• taking Beth to the ER, which they cal the ED, after she got conked on the head with a soccer ball; she's okay
• seeing Jenny, down in the Crouse basement
  
• cooling off
• Eucharist at an Episcopal Church
• haiku syncopations
• lurid dreams
  
• delighting in the miracle of the late-growing sunflowers of surprise, the God of Surprises
• in the dream of the night's rain, the rhythm of raindrops