a winter Tuesday midday list

-walked to Sparrow Art Supply

-passed over the bridge and checked out the gloriously roaring winter falls along with the frozen over rocks and vegetation below the falls

-noticed Sparrow’s new extra sign

-walked down the steps to Sparrow

-overheard an artist talking to the owner about straightedges and triangles

-checked out the the Magenta exhibit in Sparrow’s back room

-fell in love with a small painting and decided to buy it

-paid for my painting and used my rewards credit

-handed in the Valentine’s card I decorated — it will be sent to someone and I’ll receive one decorated by someone else — all of the cards will be in a digital show

-the artist who had been talking about straightedges asked to see my card

-agreed to let the painting I purchased stay in the exhibition until it closed unless the artist could bring in a replacement piece

-went into the Main Street secondhand store and nosed around

-returned a book to the library

-found two new books

-Renee the librarian said hello and I told her about the great book of short stories I had just read that Haley the librarian had recommended

-Renee asked the name of the book — I told her it was called “Seven Empty Houses”

-Haley stuck her head up from the back desk and talked to us about how great the book was

-told Renee I was just now checking out a book that was one of her recommendations

-was going to go for a walk but the sun decided to take a nap so I walked down to the Stone Mill for coffee instead — they were closed — intermittent winter hours

-walked up to the Little Seed cafe — they were closed because of work being done on the coffee roaster

-because of these closures I decided to walk to the co-op to get coffee and a snack

-ran into my friend who works in the cheese section — had a good chat for a while

-paid for my stuff and decided to sit inside and read and snack

-overheard an artist at another table talking to a customer about sales tax

-explained some sales tax particulars to her after her customer left

-she ended up joining me at my table

-I did an impromptu Wise Ask reading for her

-she was delighted by the in-depth reading

-we talked more and discovered we had a mutual friend on my old street (who died last year) — a friend people often mistook me for (and she for me)

-she also used to have a studio in the building I currently live in — it was across the hall from my apartment

-we exchanged contact info

-watched the final two episodes of “Climb”

Cinse Bonino
2023