So I’m facing the first free couple of days after exactly four months of relentless work and I’m remembering once again how difficult it is to (re)learn to enjoy free time when you’re so used to running around. Furthermore, as I approach the 50-day mark I’m finding that being as observant and open as in those first few days is a tough, abeit welcome, challenge. Strategies I’ve developed to deal with this include taking purposively different (occasionally longer) routes to get where I want to get, and making an effort to talk to strangers even if I don’t need anything. Perhaps when I’m writing up my fieldwork paper there should be a parallel narrative of self-reflection running along with my observations re Boston – distinguishing between the two is not easy.
The Boston Diaries
- Mayoral election food Boylston St Boston Harbor community art Newburyport libraries Coolidge Corner Dorchester Wenham Tremont St museums work Thanksgiving trees public art Old Harbor Voltage Washington Boston Public Library Harvard Square EGL Starbucks river noir cinema books Brookline Harvard exhibition community Back Bay holidays McKenna's stations Pavement Coffee House New England South Station Prudential Kendall Square South End MBTA collective memory Downtown trains fieldwork Bay Village Savin Hill Art in Transit home T Chinatown North End Government Center fall Emerson Mass Ave Newbury St MIT Copley Square Washington Square Financial District coffee Faneuil Hall snow jazz Hoop Dreams Rose Kennedy Greenway art politics Boston Common Cambridge foliage Friendly Toast Central Square UMass Mihailidis Roxbury JFK Portraits of America