New Year 2009

2009. Its 6:08 am on the first day of the year and darkness waits outside the house, and the cold new year. I had some toast and jam and a boiled egg (Ugh!) and now am reflecting the doin's of yesterday as I seemed to 'run-in-to' so many of my former friends and acquaintances such as terry and dawn my erstwhile goddaughter and and former roomate/partner, naturally at the frontier restaurant and just as I was leaving or about to leave. bottom line, we spent a fun few minutes recasting our thoughts and minds back to the previous decade. It was shocking to see dawn so tall and blonde and blue-eyed and terry was looking quite the debonair mother dressed nicely too! Dawn went to Morroco in the summer and we talked about marakech. I told her that friends of a friend (lab) had bought a riad there and her (dawn's) reaction was quite interesting to see.
In the eve/afternoon around 5:00 at the flying rainbow coffee shop I sat to read duras and tom miller, a late Christmas present, and got into conversation with a lady from the Indian Cultural Center, talking about indian pueblo dances at San Juan and Jemez and Santa Domingo. Her name was/is Melanie! Before that on walking past the Il Vicino I was called from behind and there was Jason, Maggies son calling for me to join him after his workshift had just ended. Got into conversation with a Tony England about the Zeke Cortez Biography!
Walkin on Central home back to Colombia I reflected on the meaning of Christmas and other New Year celebrations between avoiding suspicious looking characters dawdling and hanging around in dangerous looking circumstances. Went to bed at about 6:50pm!