tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post1130107630816956860..comments2024-03-24T00:12:38.570-07:00Comments on Light, Bright, and Sparkling: Letter from New York: Part 1Diana Birchallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18291540900938654707noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-81697841224160372162011-02-14T04:21:55.417-08:002011-02-14T04:21:55.417-08:00Just to say: quite right, there are sinister curre...Just to say: quite right, there are sinister currents there. Longfellow had real depths in his poetry. Nowadays we have to go to Randall Jarrell to get an equivalent ambiguity and it's more sentimental.<br /><br />I enjoyed reading this blog because it told of happy good times -- glad you enjoyed yourself and envied you those times in Central Park -- but also did not ignore the state of the city in this time of the "Raw Deal" (no effort to stop foreclosures, no effort to provide any jobs for huge proportion of the people).<br /><br />Here in Alexandria, Va we also see only the occasional homeless person. It's cold in winter here and we do have two active shelters where people really do run about to pick the homeless up -- plus a Salvation Army place. WE are a small city too. But huge parts of once thriving malls are empty.<br /><br />EllenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-77295604421056322712011-02-13T10:49:58.523-08:002011-02-13T10:49:58.523-08:00Hi Linda - no, I don't seriously find The Chil...Hi Linda - no, I don't seriously find The Children's Hour sinister. I was joking that nowadays an innocent story about little girls climbing an "old mustache" of a man would probably be looked at in a different light. Just as nowadays Charles Dodgson is seen as creepy in retrospect.Diana Birchallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291540900938654707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-9692548279630345322011-02-13T09:03:19.798-08:002011-02-13T09:03:19.798-08:00What a wonderful post about a wonderful visit. I ...What a wonderful post about a wonderful visit. I love to travel, and NYC is one of my favorite places, but I also love to armchair travel, and your post was perfect for this Feb. Sunday.<br /><br />Thanks.JaneGShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094501834387622997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-67970750131105703282011-02-13T07:15:33.828-08:002011-02-13T07:15:33.828-08:00Wonderful blog...great photos--but I beg to differ...Wonderful blog...great photos--but I beg to differ on "The Children's Hour." I don't find it sinnister at all. My father used to quote it at the dinner table, and it was meant to be an expression of affection. The ending was, I think, meant to be an allusion to our mortality...and how all things pass away, which will include their childhood...which the narrator is already anticipating...Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06944367224102139009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-51191674779473258072011-02-13T03:00:09.639-08:002011-02-13T03:00:09.639-08:00Great to read about your visit to New York - you b...Great to read about your visit to New York - you busy bee!! Have enjoyed seeing Joanna at several stages in her life - now on the verge of young womanhood - or even in it already by the look of her. I know just what you mean about Dublin! Visiting often between 25 and 30 years ago it was like stepping back in time and then with a 12 year gap between the next visit suddenly it had a jaunty contemporary continental (as in European) air about it. Not sure what it would be like now having been so hard by the credit crunch - probably shades of Madison Avenue. Thanks for the post - look forward to reading the rest of the story. BarbaraBarbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196530511497772957noreply@blogger.com