Caffe’ Paradiso, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 2006.
I’m going to pass up my hundreds (yes, too many!) of photos of Walden Pond from three weeks ago for this week’s Photo Friday (Stillness). There were two events of stillness while we were in Boston: our pilgrimage to Walden Pond and when I sat in my favorite coffeeshop for a few hours and worked and wrote. This is a photo of the latter, one of at least four or five cups of coffee I drank while I sat and read Nietzsche’s The Gay Science and recounted events from our trip in my Moleskine, in burgundy ink.
I didn’t want to leave, but I was starving, and we were going to have great Vietnamese food that night. The belly rules.
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[...] But now I am restless. Very. When I read the first essay last week, I went shopping when I was pretty sick (and got sicker) because I could not stand the idea of staying home all day after reading something like that. Is that sad? I have finally gotten around to filling in a travel journal from our research trips in fall 2006. They were a bit of a pain at the time, when I was trying to get a dissertation written. But now I wish I could go back to New Haven for another chilly Friday morning wishing I brought something other than sandals. Or to New York for a thunderstorm on Broadway, ducking into the largest Barnes and Noble I have ever seen. Or to Boston, within a mile of where I lived for two years, remembering all things I loved and hated about that place. Hours at my favorite cafe’ there. [...]