Where Are You?

I was chatting with my sister on the phone when she mentioned that she was calling from her mobile phone. She lives in New York and was in a park looking at the river. My nephew was asleep in the stroller. Curious, I asked which park? And at the same time fired up Goggle Maps and started scrolling North along the West Side Highway. My brother-in-law was setting up for a party for some artist and their floating island art and my sister and their baby came along. He does catering gigs in between singing gigs. We chat some more, she's just south of West 11th, where she used to live. They're out on a pier. And there it was. Neat. I ask what's happening on the larger pier just south of them. Some kids are playing in the sprinklers.

We talk some more. The wheels spin for a bit, and then I get it. It would be kind of neat if we were more easily able to communicate place. It does change the conversation, slightly. But in a good way.