OK, kids, life has been strangely quiet on the mother-front. I think this Mercury in Retrograde has had the opposite effect of the usual; it sometimes brings issues to a head and aids in their solving. SO FAR the only electronic issues I have had were: 1. missing a phone call—a spam call came through while the museum restaurant was calling to offer a table, causing me to miss the call from the restaurant, and 2. one of my Verizon Fi-Os set top boxes got stuck in a flashing light loop indicating it missed an update and tech support had to fix it from afar. NO BIG DEALS! Pleasant if not silly stuff, manageable with a minimum of aggravation. Issues with my mother have been virtually nil. She had a swollen ankle that seemed to resolve. I was able to get through and get her an appointment with her physician for an updated physical to renew her Ensure, I barely spent any time on the phone and I kind of fell back into photography; I seem to alternate words and visuals.

Now, here is something strange! Talk about a retrograde … in a waiting area to get to the elevator to the exhibit, a small corridor near the eatery, I had a vertigo attack, something I hadn’t had since September, and then coming down and re-entering that area, I had an ocular migraine. Both, thankfully, resolved relatively quickly, but it made me think about the environment as a trigger and what could possibly have been the trigger? A million people with cell phones? Bluetooth? An impending storm and gale force winds?

Back to this amazing exhibit at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York: It pulled in an enormous crowd on a weekday, to see the exhibit, David Bowie is, which was organized by The Victoria and Albert Museum of London, and included the icon’s personal effects, video, movie clips, film, sound bytes, music clips, costumes … Bowie was a trendsetter, an accomplished mime, and incredible entertainer song writer and lyricist. Even more remarkable was how he kept re-inventing himself.

If you recall, David Bowie passed away in 2016, in New York City, at the age of sixty-nine, of liver cancer.

All photos “taken on the fly” iP8+ in hopes of giving you a feel for the action.

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