The Gallivants have left the building! Road Trip! We arrived in Pittsfield, MA. last night at about 8:30 PM and headed straight for Baba Louie’s for Pizza, which was excellent as usual. Today we are going to recover from the 12+hour drive by sampling local cuisines and possibly going on a bike ride. We are here for business as well as pleasure though; our rental property needs a little TLC.
I’ve had a lot of Puerh in my life. Hall Hitzig
Good morning!
I’m sitting in Haven, a wonderful café in Lenox, Massachusetts and being transported to my youth in New York city and Woodstock, NY. There is a certain atmosphere here that resonates with me and is like a comfort food (I really hate that term, but I think that it’s an easy & lazy way of letting you know what I mean).
The feeling of community and a cosmopolitan diversity is so wonderful. I know nobody here, yet I feel at home. I felt the same way when I sat in the café in the piazza in Ortigia, Sicily. Whilst West Virginia is wonderful and I really love it, there is the provincial tenor to the area that keeps me aware of my difference. I have friends and community in West Virginia, but it’s different, and, my best friends in West Virginia are from New York!
The morning may have been wonderful, but we weren’t going to let us stop having fun!
Believe it or not, but I have a talented sculptor as a friend, Jack Howard-Potter. When I was in New York City for the Gran Fondo New York, I went to see one of Jack’s sculptures, Swinging II and now in Pittsfield, Mass, I got to visit with her again! A real treat:
Leaving the sculpture I couldn’t help but to chat up the peace demonstrators. The group, started by Don Lathrop ( in the green sweater) has been demonstrating for 13 years and haven’t missed a Thursday demonstration despite rain and snow! What a great group, so dedicated and motivated! Don had been a professor at a community college here in Pittsfield for thirty years! He has enrolled this group of people in the area to support his peace mission through an organization called Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice. Don was very proud of his peace poster, “Venus Di Milo did it: Dis-Arm”! Another of his favorites is a picture of Thoreau, and the text said, ” Washington needs a Thoreau House Cleaning”, very clever indeed!
One of his compadres is Gordon, holding a “honk if you want peace” sign. The sign elicited quite a cacaphony! I noted to Gordon that all of the demonstrators were of the grey haired generation, and why did he think that there were no dark haired demonstrators? Well, I got to hear a familiar complaint about the youngsters, they all have their heads in their cell phones!
Now to see more of the area by bicycle! Tomorrow……
Zachary says that chickens don’t care whether they live in a third world country or not…..
