It's 6 PM. One of Portland's many sculptures from a bench in the park, where
I stop to write notes, before I forget the thoughts, on my way home after a good
workout at 24.
The Fujimoto Cube. Hillsdale Library may have me conduct an Origami class
with the Fujimoto Cube the lesson. Submitted the proposal at the urging of
the librarian I taught to fold it. I first went to her a week ago asking her to help
me find it online. I haven't folded it in maybe 20 years. That's when I was
annoying Lydia with my paper folding and knot tieing. I was also seriously out
of work and under a doctor's care.
He knows the coffee's hot, so he pours a little ice water in it. Ate breakfast at
the Blanchet House, oats, bagel, banana and coffee. I'm sitting in the cavernous,
marble walled lobby of Union Station. I love it here. There are, on any one night,
2000 homeless in Portland. They built a new Blanchet House, it's beautiful.
The old one still exists around the corner, closed. An old red brick building on
a corner. It rains in Portland. We would line up outside in the rain. The new place,
you line up inside in a neat rope divided maze. The servers are all very nice
teenagers. Two old guys clean the table space and replace the coffee cup for
the next diner. It's all very efficient. They have lunch and dinner, too. No meals
on Sunday. Going to see Mad Max today with Holly and son. Holly's going to buy
me coffee at the Square Starbucks before we go. Tickets at the Academy are $4.
This is where Holly lives and one of Portland's many Senior Centers. It helped
pull me out of major depression in '13. I got chummy with some of the other users
of the Center. Maybe a mistake. Maybe not. I also go a lot to Elm Court Downtown,
where fights break out and a lovely Center in Belmont. Which is, now my favorite.
I have yet to try the one in NW, where I am. Friendly House, it's called. On Thurman
and 26th. Must do. Oh, and Trinity Episcopalian serves lunch at 11:30, Wednesdays.
Trinity is 2 blocks away. Picked up a food bag there the other morning. The church
is on the National Historical Sites registry. Great old black stone building with a lovely
grass lawn courtyard.
I'd like to buy this place, and make it cool. I'd start with the garage door. Then raise
the right rail. Then...
Sometimes I get off the 44 at the Community Church on the hilltop and walk down
Capital a half mile to the Center.
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