Forty

Ha! The last picture has to be a heart because the app's gone wierd on me and I can't figure out how to get it in a normal grid!! 

We wandered into Brooklyn this afternoon with a vague plan of mooching round thrift stores but neglected to take any pre-prepared plan nor any guidebook. With the premature dying if Naomi's phone we found ourselves a little lost but never the less had a nice time walking in the sun. 

We stumbled across this rather sweet pop up market with approximately 3 1/2 stalls and I'd post more pics if the damn Diptic would allow. 

The cross has been yarn bombed and the very stones are poised to cry out in the Easter garden masterpiece of the Church of thev Living Hope. All we have to do is get up at 5.30am for the sunrise service. He is Risen indeed. 

Thirty nine

Nearly there. Feels a little busy for proper Good Friday reflections - two museums to do (Tennement and MOMA), the bright lights of NYC to see in the evening and posh dinners to eat with friends all in the list for today. 

But it was nice to spend an hour at the cross earlier with a beautifully rich woman New Yorker voice reading the Jesus part and fantastic extemporary prayer over 'Lord Jesus Christ your light shines within us' being chanted. Very moving. 

We narrowly missed a 'tenebrae' service for our freebie visit to MOMA which I feel a bit sad about but it was great to get to the museum - will just have to find a tennebrae service in London next year. 

Thirty eight

Nice little mooch around a couple of thrift shops in East Harlem this morning with the boys while E and A went for a tour around the UN with Naomi and Chris. 

The boys were delighted to leave the first with a baseball cap and super shades each! 

There used to be another up on 125th at the Salvation Army but it seemed to have closed. Left a little Lenten heart there though for them - on Dr Martin Luther King Jnr Boulevard. 

And saw another on the subway drawn by someone. Here are the pics. 

Thirty seven

Awesome day for being at the top of the tallest building in New York. Such fantastic views all around and blue skies everywhere. Ye hay! 

I made a heart today out of yarn rescued from Ali's stuff after she died. It's 8 years today if you count the anniversary as the Wednesday of Holy a Week. Trust her to have two anniversaries (with the other on 4th April). 

We remembered her in the family prayer time the Lawrence family do each morning at breakfast (so impressed they manage this!) and it felt pretty nice to leave 'her' heart swinging over the city.