Need to remember this day

Spend hours finding various places to sit.
Ponder everything that is around you.
Find appreciation for simple everyday things that are part of your daily landscape.
The color of the street sign against the color of the sky and the brick building.
How it shares the backdrop of without discrimination.
It reminds you of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
How each side of the island is so dramatically different.
On a topical map, bricks and sky would be a fairly accurate description of each “country.”

The sun shining against Eastern State Penitentiary, it’s been on this corner for almost two hundred years.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS!
The first penitentiary in the WORLD!
And you’re drinking iced tea
out of a plastic cup
across the street.
Watching people.
Admiring the street sign.
The brick building.
The sky.