Week in NY
Sep. 21st, 2008 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellI'm just wrapping up a weeklong vacation in New York. I've been so thoroughly distracted that I have managed to almost completely avoid LJ for the last several days.
Now I have 400+ photos to upload, and 400+ unread entries in LJ from the last week. I'm picturing the Its A Wonderful Life kid saying "Every time your shutter dings, another friend posts some things."
Photos are excellent triggers for memories... one photo can bring back a whole cluster of memories, and I intend to enhance that effect by stringing them together into experiences to share, hopefully reinforced by the positive feedback system that lj enables via comments.
As I've been to New York several times before, I almost entirely avoided touristy areas and focused on more unusual places and local haunts. The sole exception was our 2 1/2 hours on top of Rockefeller center, which I turned in to a rather interesting mindfulness exercise. I could spend all day up there and not run out of things to discover.
I'm looking forward to seeing all you lovely bay area folks again.
Now I have 400+ photos to upload, and 400+ unread entries in LJ from the last week. I'm picturing the Its A Wonderful Life kid saying "Every time your shutter dings, another friend posts some things."
Photos are excellent triggers for memories... one photo can bring back a whole cluster of memories, and I intend to enhance that effect by stringing them together into experiences to share, hopefully reinforced by the positive feedback system that lj enables via comments.
As I've been to New York several times before, I almost entirely avoided touristy areas and focused on more unusual places and local haunts. The sole exception was our 2 1/2 hours on top of Rockefeller center, which I turned in to a rather interesting mindfulness exercise. I could spend all day up there and not run out of things to discover.
I'm looking forward to seeing all you lovely bay area folks again.
