Vendôme

To comprehend 2024 is to comprehend fleeting moments, and a romanticize them sufficiently.  The Chanin building stands in its auburn limestone glory at the heart of midtown. The low-hanging facades are visible crossing to Grand Central Station, rendering low marine lifeforms: fern-like organisms and tertiary animals crawling about. The Chanin building is the most beautiful when the daybreak radiance reflects into its neighbor, Socony-Mobil building, and all the 1930's warehouse windows have stopped quaking in the aftermath of the strong afternoon winds. These strong decade-long winds bring fortunes benevolent and malevolent.  I have felt the city's electrifying energy from the magnanimity of wistful silence. In California, it was a competition of who is the loudest--- garnering attention and acclamations. Banal tomfoolery bathed in Pacific saltwater deemed fitting. I embraced it. New Yorkers enjoy subtleties of intentional disguise. Suppressed emotions, lowered gazes, and hush...