Wholesome Shopping and a chat with a Sister.

I really should write about what I have been doing in New York for the last two and half weeks, and I will, but for now I will tell about today, and then slowly fill in the details of the last two weeks in the next several posts. +

The first of the two more interesting things that I did today was I went grocery shopping. I took the 6 train up a few stops to Union Sq, where there is a large Whole Foods. This Whole Foods had to be one of the coolest groccery stores I had every been to. I don't really know what it was about it, but it made groccery shoping fun. Perhaps it was all the interesting and well dressed people who shopped there, or the healthiness of all the food and the neat designer packaging they came in. I'm not really sure but it was fun.

The second intersting thing I did to day was I meet with Sister Mary Ann, a Nun, at an old catholic convent in SoHo. I noticed the convent the last week during one of my jogs. I looked it up online, found a number, call, and set up a meeting. I was curious to see how they lived in community, and worked out the rythmns of prayer and so on, in the context of busy city life. Over a cold glass of ginger ale, we dicussed these things. I was very helpful and a clarifying puzzle piece in thinking about moving towards living in community in the city.

Just by way of reminder, the church I'm working with has a store front gallery space/venue. So tomorrow Jesse (my comrade in arms) and I will be putting a Jazz show. It's free so hopefully a lot of people from the village will stop in and check it out. +

In the Village

So this is my attempt at starting to write something on this blog about my time in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. I live in an apartment space above a store front church on Bleeker Street between 6th and 7th Ave. Tour buses pass my window over 50 times a day spouting one liners about the Village that I can barely understand. In the last week I have already seen William Defoe, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the girl who played the little girl in M. Night's "Signs". So needless to say things here so far as been interesting. New York feels like home to me. I love the buildings, the crowds, and the excitement. And the Village has a great neighborhood feel to it, with all the small local shops and the beautiful old brownstones. So this is my intro and I hope to write more telling what I have been doing. And pictures are soon to follow.