A raga consists of at least five notes, and each raga provides the musician with a musical framework within which to improvise. Like eyes of the dead, puddles from an earlier rain mirrored the pale, lifeless sky of another November dawn. Shivering in a thin, parachute-silk jacket, collar up, red beret atop his curly mane, twenty-five-year-old Angelo streaked south …
Fate: Five Stories- V. The Pope of Brooklyn
In times of distress destiny often tosses us a lifeline and mine came in the guise of the opening of a new Italian restaurant, “Formagio’s,” tucked beneath the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, which I couldn’t help noticing as I trudged home in the chill dusk after my panic attack atop the bridge. “Formagio’s! Formagio’s!” …