Today’s Observations

Good evening everyone. Good to see you looking so well. And now for today's observations.

This morning, having just awoken, I saw on my morning walk, a Pomeranian braving the rain again, a nervous little creature of which I’ve previously spoken.

She was soon overtaken by a well coifed poodle in grand display jumping a puddle, leaving the Pom somewhat shaken.

I saw later in the downpour, outside the Philharmonic, a brass horn hawker doing a tuba demo inside an Uber limo.

Under a push cart umbrella, I saw a chorus girl (Stella) with a falafel filled to bursting, dripping tahini on parts protected barely by her sequined bikini.

On the lower reaches of the High Line, with rain slickers aflutter, tourists from Sumatra expressed their utter elation in chanting and dance, interspersed with refrains of Sinatra, whose town of Hoboken they spotted across the great Hudson’s expanse.

A clutch of Koreans looking to perform Tai Chi were instead directed to a parlor for chai tea, which they nevertheless enjoyed immensely, guzzling their spicy libation before in all good humor moving on to their martial arts demonstration.

And in signature flannel and beard, a somnambulant hipster, earbuds implanted, unknowingly scaled a panel truck gangplank and so, along with the cargo, was thereby dispatched to San Diego by way of Lodi, Brewster and Fargo.

Although but a sampling of occurrences, this will I hope adequately serve, being not the most but the most notable of what I with my own eyes today have observed.

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