today

today i saw the following things.

homeless man sitting on a bench doing the crossword puzzle in front of an archway
through which i walked passing a little girl being pushed in a stroller singing twinkletwinklelittlestar echoing in the tunnel
then on the other side some ducks dunking their heads in the water and shaking their heads like wet dogs
while a little kid with an expensive camera tried to get a closeup shot of one of them and
a white fluffy puppy followed a woman but kept getting distracted by the smells and sniffed the kid standing in front of the peter pan statue while his mother took a picture and yelled at him to smile and counted to three

(the batteries in my camera died. i saw these things and couldn't photograph them.)

one day i was running and there are all these little private gardens in chelsea and i looked through the gate of one of them and saw an adorable little girl running through the field, chasing nothing i think, and reached out with both hands to catch a brilliantly orange leaf falling and making the motions of a skier floating down back and forth and back and forth. then i wished i had my camera. but sometimes, especially with dogs, and small children, there's what ani difranco refers to as 'the kind of beauty that moves'. then it doesn't matter whether or not you have a camera.
but i'm not going to worry about that too much.