I got an offer from
The Rubin, our not even 20 year old museum of Buddhism that's four blocks away from the McBurney Y, for a free ticket so I went. I took the 4 pm slot. Everything is sIotted due to the plague sic. It was the first time I've been to a museum or gallery since it started. I like these kinds of paintings. They show the world as it is--infinitely complex but with patterns to it.
I like those paintings because they're so busy. I'm a Bokononist. “Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”.
I'm a Bokononist but I'm also a Catholic at heart, and as it happened I sat on the steps of a nearby church on the way back (after reconnoitering at the
Housing Works thrift shop right across from The Rubin) just when people were going in. So I went in to what turned out to be the 5 p.m Sunday mass at what turned out to be
The Church of St. Francis Xavier. I found it also to be quite busy, busy, busy.
It also turned out to be the day before the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi so we were treated to a sermon on ecology and ecological justice. The songs were in English and Spanish, there was a call and response about social justice and anti-racism, and in the reminder to be tolerant they even sneaked in 'dialogue' about sexuality. It was younger and fuller than I would have expected. Not surprisingly, they are Jesuits. I will be going back to that church.
Then at
the Sixth and B Garden right before I got home, there was something going on so I peeped in and it was a VERY good jazz fusion band called
Chupacabras. I danced like a demon and commanded the shakti as I always have when not sucked in by asphyxiating pixelated rabbit holes but was disappointed I couldn't become a groupie because they're currently based in Virginia.