Around the Way: Gaslight Lamps

The gaslight lamps of historic Brooklyn.

If you've never seen gaslight lamps flickering cheerily 
in the purple dusk of a waning day, I can't tell you how beautiful a sight it is, because it's something you have to see for yourself. 
My town has them in abundance, and with time they became a symbol of hearth and home to me. 

After the brutally bratty boardroom battles in The Matrix of Manhattan, I can't tell you what a relief it is to walk through the warmth of our streets homeward-bound. I can actually feel my muscles loosen as I relax on my walk home from the subway. 

Who wouldn't want to come home to something as wonderful as this? What do you see every day that reminds you of home? Because those are the very things you'll miss when you're away.

Around the Way: Houses

Park Slope is blessed with a literate, educated and creative community who gives back all the time, in so many ways. I was researching a piece on "eccentric" houses for another site that views our town as tourist fare, when it struck me that I don't consider our homes odd or weird at all. 

The homes I see are simply more signs of the fun, rich, vibrant life our neighbors bring to this area, which makes it such a great place to live. If we wanted the dull sameness of cul-de-sacs and suburbs, we'd be living there, right? Instead of seeing our city through the eyes of an outsider, I see signs of life everywhere I look, and that makes me proud to call Brooklyn my home. 
 


As you walk around your hometown today, what do you see in your neighborhood that makes you smile when you see it? That great feeling you get means you're home :)
 It's Tuesday yo!