I live alone - well with my black kitty - and the pandemic has done me in! All the isolation, favorite places shut down. Then trying to just stay healthy! But recently I’ve been thinking of making a special day just for me! It will sound low-key, but I just have to please myself. I live in Denver, Colorado and rarely visit downtown which can be a really fun and lively place. I’d take my favorite limited-stop bus, and get off 2 blocks from Denver Central Library. It is a sanctuary inside with a beautiful Main Hall that is 4 stories high - and feels like a church! I’d go to my favorite floors, visit people I know there. Then to the Poetry Section, the 800s, then see what’s new. Then I’d go outside to the 16th Street Mall for walkers, chess players, and buskers. And even free Mall busses you can hop
On at each block. Grab something to eat, a bit of coffee. And continue all the way down to the end of the mall, then park, crossing the Platte River in the spectacular and inspiring white Wellington Webb bridge and over to the REI store (used to be a railroad station). To the biggest non-Starbucks store ever.
Yes! That sounds like so much fun. I remember going to the main library in Detroit once. I think it had seven floors. It was awesome. I love that you know people there. If you go, you’ll have to share.
I don't think I've ever really thought about a perfect day. But I know I'm looking forward to spending some time with my grown-up sons, whom I rarely see, this summer. I don't know if we'll have any perfect days, but a few good ones will be great.
I live alone - well with my black kitty - and the pandemic has done me in! All the isolation, favorite places shut down. Then trying to just stay healthy! But recently I’ve been thinking of making a special day just for me! It will sound low-key, but I just have to please myself. I live in Denver, Colorado and rarely visit downtown which can be a really fun and lively place. I’d take my favorite limited-stop bus, and get off 2 blocks from Denver Central Library. It is a sanctuary inside with a beautiful Main Hall that is 4 stories high - and feels like a church! I’d go to my favorite floors, visit people I know there. Then to the Poetry Section, the 800s, then see what’s new. Then I’d go outside to the 16th Street Mall for walkers, chess players, and buskers. And even free Mall busses you can hop
On at each block. Grab something to eat, a bit of coffee. And continue all the way down to the end of the mall, then park, crossing the Platte River in the spectacular and inspiring white Wellington Webb bridge and over to the REI store (used to be a railroad station). To the biggest non-Starbucks store ever.
Yes! That sounds like so much fun. I remember going to the main library in Detroit once. I think it had seven floors. It was awesome. I love that you know people there. If you go, you’ll have to share.
Sounds like a good day to me!
I don't think I've ever really thought about a perfect day. But I know I'm looking forward to spending some time with my grown-up sons, whom I rarely see, this summer. I don't know if we'll have any perfect days, but a few good ones will be great.