seventy-eighth

“Can we go to the bakery on Seventy-Eighth Street? They have the best donuts. Even better than the ones at the bodega.”

“But it’s all the way on up Seventy-Eighth Street, though. That’s far.”

Galileo died peacefully in his sleep on the night of 8/9 January 1642, a few weeks short of his seventy-eighth birthday.

“I read in the paper the other day that a man from Portland hiked Katahdin to celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday,” she said conversationally.

The seventy-eighth edition of the Whitney Biennial opened its doors, at the museum’s new downtown location, in mid-March and runs through June 11th.