New York: Visual Memory

This Entry is about Visual Memory.

For those of you that don't know, I lived in New York for almost 9 years. I moved to the Hudson Valley in New York in early 2000, where pretty much my life 'started.' I cannot begin to describe how blessed I was to live there. In good times and in bad times.

Anyway, in a nutshell, I moved to Tennessee about 4 months ago and I have not been to New York that often since then. But I will share a single visual memory of 3/7/2007.


To me, it takes just a picture to re-invent the exact moment and place I was. Things like in the atmosphere like sounds, vision, smell, touch--all the senses activate to bring me back to something that is no longer available. How amazing is the mind?!

A few [words] that helped me travel back:

• Colombian Restaurant (Restaurante Colombiano)
  
• El Bronx, Manhattan, Nueva Jersey (New Jersey)
  
• Coffee, Green Bananas In Colombian Restaurant
• Eating fast, comments about eating fast
• Bad Smell, fumes, Toyota (cars, trucks)
• Traffic, parking spot, truck, impressed crowd, thumbs-up
  
• Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt, SoHo
  
• Dali, Juan Gris, painting, Miro
• Rock chairs, wooden figures, Bad posters, Futurism posters
• Criticism, Texture, water, blue
  
• Shoes, Money, Sweat in sweater, embarrassment
  
• Design, art, no camera rules, no pictures, embarrassment
• excitement, picture, no smiles
• building view, good view, crime, dark, beautiful
• boyfriend, friend, date, no date, person
• hug, cold chair, eyes, smile
• wind, cold, sweater, no sweater

Now, Here's the visual aids:










Ok, thanks for traveling with me. Hope you used your imagination!