7 New York City has ocean beaches and wildlife areas, including the salt marsh pictured below at the Gerritsen Inlet.
40º36’01N, 73º55’27W
Panoramic view from the south portico of the Marine Park Nature Center, overlooking Gerritsen Inlet and the surrounding salt marsh.
Location of Marine Park Nature Center
Detail of a photograph taken from Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS100), April 2001.
“It Meurent, Manet’s favorite model and a leading professional cancan dancer, arrived in New York from Paris in September 1868 as part of a troupe of forty-eight artistes to perform in Offenbach’s operettas. She and her young child traveled steerage…”
A whole political-media machinery now exists for the sole purpose of mocking education rooted in an appreciation for diverse humanity, but in the false guise of allegedly brave and serious “heterodox” thought.
The way reading is taught now is an *excellent* way to prepare kids for a sterile, joyless work life devoid of imagination and curiosity.
@SusanDarraj
Quite pleased to see that Christianity Today @CTmagazine has listed my memoir The Accidental Buddhist as one of the Top 5 Books on Buddhism. @AlgonquinBooks @penguinrandom
“As a man gets older, he tends to confuse what he has learned with what he has experienced.” – Harry Golden (1902–81, American journalist)
