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<\/p>\nEven at the grossest dingiest most bustling jackhammery intersection … look up.<\/p>\n
You never know what you will find up there, but sometimes you see something that makes you go all quiet and still inside, peaceful, like all the sound dissolves away. Sometimes, walking in the city, it’s like the noise and the grime are actually coming from inside of you<\/i>, so omnipresent is it. But then …<\/p>\n
a glimpse, proving otherwise.<\/p>\n
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This ballet studio is on the second floor of a grimy building on grimy 40th and 8th Avenue, one of the grossest corners in the city. It’s just relentless, that corner. Once I discovered the studio though, I ALWAYS look up when I walk by there, to see the pretty and calm ballerinas at the barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Even at the grossest dingiest most bustling jackhammery intersection … look up. You never know what you will find up there, but sometimes you see something that makes you go all quiet and still inside, peaceful, like all the sound … Continue reading