Welcome to Elaine's NEIGHBORHOOD! Live Love Learn Locally is a "How to" spot for understanding and appreciating neighborhoods. Living and Loving Locally begins right here in SoHo -New York City where I can dance my dream to the fullest, drum up daily delights, and match my special lifestyle needs. We're living and loving longer! Please share how you live and love in YOUR neighborhood. One day, YOU may be saying, "WELCOME!"
Long ago, Elaine found a great leather purse on Madison Avenue. She recalls, "it was beautiful...made of leather...and the best thing about it was that nothing left the purse! There was a place for everything -credit cards, keys, cash and change...but over the decades, 'it got tired!'
... And as Elaine grew older she found she needed something lighter and smaller.
So Elaine (87 years young) grabbed a taxi to 2nd Ave and 42 st where she found the Bagalini ($44)! She will send pictures to post here. Not only does "nothing leave your pocketbook ... because the wallet is attached to the pocketbook... it has a strap around my shoulder so I don't leave it in the restaurant."
Elaine explains, that the Bagalini "also has divisions for smaller amounts... a zipper goes all the way around and there's a place for keys and holders for pens, and a space for my hearing aid (I wear one that looks like you're listening to music)."
Elaine's getting ready for July 23-27, when The Kinetic Awareness Center offers workshops ... and guests from all over will join Elaine's neighborhood - arriving to teach, conference, share meals ... living and learning together from Elaine's neighborhood in SoHo. For instance, Ann Law, who works to archive Elaine's long history as an Intermedia Artist, is also herself an artist, living and learning and loving in Tennessee (TN). This July, Ann Law will travel to SoHo to give a workshop called, White Wind Dance -previously performed in TN.
" Ann works with me from TN .. I go to her neighborhood, and she comes here. There's also Thomas who is making a book on improvisation." Thomas will arrive this July in SoHo from the Netherlands ... and he will co-teach in our neighborhood, here in SoHo. Thomas and I Skype from the Netherlands...THE INTERNET GIVES US ANOTHER CYBER NEIGHBORHOOD...MAKING IT ALMOST LOCAL! "
And why the pocketbook story?
Elaine explains that "The pocketbook story is important for older people who must learn to use what they have in their neighborhood. She goes on to explain, " I live in SoHo and aught to be able to buy it in SoHo ... but not! So what am I doing in my neighborhood? I'm getting into a cab ...extending my neighborhood ....I can't do what I do in any other neighborhood. Older people need to find out who offers services in your neighborhood."
Elaine reminds me that she can catch a cab (Medicare covers the cost) to the NYU Medical Center as easily as she visits McNally's Book Store, or the exotic Cafe Noir, or the formal dining and gourmet L'Ecole Culinary School! She is clearly stoked with her Bagalini find, "I like the pocketbook because its about safety and having a tool I wont lose when I'm out shopping ... one thing we take out of the bag is the credit card and I could leave it at the store ... and what we look for in the bag is that it narrows down the potential for problems (like losing it, or items in it). And it has a filing system, it was easy to find, and I only have to carry the things I really need."
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