I seem to have lost all orientation in the past year.  The shops are confusing to me, the museums make little sense, the restaurants seem to operate differently.  Is it me? Is it New York?  Is it the world?  

It is Shavuot, and I have been missing being in a land where the order of holidays provides a level of orientation.  That’s on me.  It isn’t what New York was ever about.  But what about the rest of the orientations?  Take the museums, for instance.  Only when I went to the Museum of Natural History to admire the new Gilder Hall did I see how everything connected.  Whether it is rocks or insects – everything has its place, and everything is clearly cataloged for the purpose of understanding more about the universe and how it works.  The art museums made no sense at all to me.  What is art and what are we supposed to learn or gain from art?  Maybe this picture explains it.  If you put two cultures together, a blend of the two will result.  Or maybe I’m in the middle making a shadow. 

In any case, I enjoyed making my own sense of things .  See how the Museum of Natural History comes together:

read the signs.

All right, it is clear I see the world in a different way….