In many religions and cultures you are baptized and thus renewed. It’s a big event for most as well as new start for some. What about those moments when you just need a little pick me up that isn’t in the form of say, chocolate? I was in a funk this morning and went for my usual cup of organic coffee at Whole Foods in the Bowery. I did manage to not go for the chocolate chip scone because I must have known at an intuitive level that there was a better way. I found it sitting at a red light on Houston in the form of a NYC water truck. It was dousing with a beautiful arc of water the pretty flowers in the median. Impulse took hold and I dashed from my corner and triumphantly stood with arms flung high under the arc of water coming from the top of the truck and was thus baptised NYC style. I yelled ‘Thank you!’ and skipped off home. It was just what I needed to put a bit of the kid back in me in this very adult world and a smile on my face.
copyright Jillanne Ohana
17 June 2009
NYC Moments 