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
- Starbucks Tremont St Old Harbor Emerson stations Central Square Newbury St holidays Prudential food Government Center South Station Boston Harbor McKenna's Copley Square Wharf District Back Bay Pavement Coffee House public art foliage community New England Financial District Boylston St Middleborough snow coffee Mayoral election museums cinema fall trains South End Voltage books libraries collective memory JFK Savin Hill T Kendall Square Boston Common Boston Public Library trees Harvard Brookline Mihailidis Dorchester fieldwork UMass Hoop Dreams MBTA Faneuil Hall Roxbury community art Cambridge home Bay Village Rose Kennedy Greenway Wenham EGL Downtown Art in Transit Chinatown noir MIT work jazz Thanksgiving Coolidge Corner Mass Ave art exhibition Newburyport Friendly Toast politics Washington North End Portraits of America Harvard Square