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