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(July 16, 2009) Thanks to a confluence of weird and wonderful scheduling issues — an already-planned vacation with some friends combined with a couple things my publisher wanted me to do — I have ended up in Manhattan for three glorious weeks. I’m here by myself for the first week, and with my publisher-related duties out of the way I have absolutely nothing to do. There’s no point in rushing around to see the sights or visit exhibitions — that can wait until my friends show up next week — which leaves me free to just live here.
I’ve always wanted to be a writer in New York, as long as I could be the kind who was somehow free of soul-crushing day jobs and able to just pursue my passions — and now here I am. It’s weird to get the thing you’ve always wanted. Reminds me of my cat stalking one of my chickens. “What are you going to do with her when you catch her?” I ask the cat. He doesn’t know. He’s too busy wanting it to think about what would happen if he got it.
So I wake up on the first morning enraptured and a little overwhelmed by all the possibilities. I could walk up Fifth Avenue to the library, pat the great stone lions on their noses and spend the day in one of those glorious reading rooms, doing research. I could take the laptop to a café and start a novel. I could go to Central Park with a Moleskin in my pocket and write sonnets.
And then I remember. Before I left, I promised Hank I’d send him a garden column from New York.
Well, that’s not so bad. In fact, just think of how very Carrie Bradshaw it would be to wander around the East Village, pondering some great horticultural truth, and then to come back to my unrealistically large apartment, throw on some overpriced but trashy couture, pour myself a girly pink cocktail and then type my pithy little question into my laptop. Something like:
Are we all turning into shrinking violets? Or:
Is the bloom coming off the rose? Or:
Is coleus the new geranium?
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Comment / By Genevieve / Aug. 3, 2009, 7:23 p.m.
Love it, Amy. Yes!!
I’m still unsuccessfully trying to overwinter a Brugmansia. That’s my heartbreaker. Loved them as a child in San Fran and I have grown them for clients, but mine? Always up and dying on me. Stupid frosty microclimate.