Guest Blogger! :)

The following is a wonderful post from my dear friend, Ben Bartels. He's an incredible singer and performer, studying music theater here at Steinhardt. I loved this post, and with his permission, was delighted to feature it on my own blog! For more of this juicy goodness: http://outwardlyinward.blogspot.com. 

Just Another Day

In just one day of living in NYC you may see:

A mass of people swaying awkwardly around a drum corps

A dealer not so subtly offer you drugs

A piano in the middle of the park

A homeless man curled up on a bench for an afternoon nap

A 99¢ pizza place

A ghetto bootie that does not belong to a female

A strap-on on and fake boobs on a manequin

A pigeon flitting fearlessly a foot away from your face

A jazz combo playing Afro Blue on the walkway

A huddle of theater kids dancing inappropriately to the music in the air

A few same-sex couples walking happily together unimpeded

A pair of kids practicing Capoeira on a raised platform

A line at Starbucks wrapping three times around the interior of the store

A little person not sanctioned by the university shouting at passersby as if he were traffic control

A quartet of semi-intoxicated friends (two guys, two girls) converge on a single point in the air to make out. All at once. Like literally four set of lips interacting inclusively.

A Broadway star buying a meal at the same chicken joint as you 

A beautiful purple sky created by smog and light pollution

A high skyline blinking with bright lights, the biggest reminder that you're in one of the greatest cities on Earth- a city so steeped in history, so full of energy, so industrial and yet so beautiful. 

Enjoying his bite of the Big Apple,

Jamin