Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Two Little Houses in Brooklyn

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Nancy Wait

I love walking by these cute little houses in my neighborhood of Brooklyn from a completely different time. For one reason or another they were spared until 1973 when Park Slope was designated an historical district and their future was … Continue reading →

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Easter Sunday

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Nancy Wait

On Easter Sunday when a man in Louisville was planning a mass murder, I was taking a walk in Brooklyn and saw two things in nature that were as symbolic as the day itself. One was the timeless Cross, the … Continue reading →

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this Park, this Brooklyn

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Nancy Wait

This drawing, this park, this Prospect Park, these 526 acres, these remains of Brooklyn’s indigenous forest. This play area with off-leash hours. This Dog Beach just off the Long Meadow at the Pools. This drawing, these dogs, these people, this … Continue reading →

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Battle Hill

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Nancy Wait

Two strong and fearless women, one in a glorious helmet and armor decorated with snakes, the other in her crown of seven spikes, her tablet a book of law.
Their eyes lock. Lady Liberty raises her torch with her right hand. Minerva salutes back with her left.

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The Green-Wood Trolley

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Nancy Wait

Ding-ding-ding goes the trolley… Except when it doesn’t. Because we did not want to wake anyone sleeping in the Green-Wood Cemetery. Cemetery is from the Greek word for “sleeping place.” This spring when I took the trolley tour we rolled … Continue reading →

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Filtering the World

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Nancy Wait

…each attempt to create an experience on canvas or paper, “is imagination reaching outward to filter the world.” Continue reading →

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Letting It Come Through

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Nancy Wait

I can now paint and draw small, sketchbook-size pictures of the world around me because now I see how focusing on the small particulars of the outer visible world, can also reflect a deeper insight to the world within. Continue reading →

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The Cabin in the Clearing

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Nancy Wait

Whenever I looked out the window I saw two scenes, the one from the present, and this other one, so obviously from the past. From Brooklyn as it once was. Continue reading →

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Flowing Fences

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Nancy Wait

I used to walk along looking at people and objects and things, noticing them, studying them, whereas now I am conscious of energy. Everything I see is an example of an energy flow. Continue reading →

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My Country Estate Across the Street

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Nancy Wait

I’ve always known Prospect Park was a public park, and while I’ve been grateful to live so close by, I have felt its limitations as well as my own limitations in not being able to walk somewhere different for a change. Just for a change… Then this strange thing happened last night…and I was the one who changed… Continue reading →

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