Lily Haight

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  • Faith in sanctuary

    New York City officials are teaming up with community faith leaders to provide help for undocumented immigrants. Panic spread through immigrant communities after the New York Immigration Coalition leaked a memo two weeks ago stating that ICE arrested “nearly 40” people in the New York City area. Since the leak, there have been rumors about Read more

  • Field Notes

    Field Notes

    It’s 65 degrees in New York today. My soul, once broken by the cold weather, is fully healed. And I remembered that I love life, living, and things that are alive. I also found a hoard of notes on my phone with quotes from friends, family and passerby. Here are some of my favorites: “My least favorite Read more

  • Five Things

    Five Things

    Currently my mood is very “Days” by Philip Larkin: What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the Read more

  • Envisioning four years from now

    Envisioning four years from now

    “It’s 2021, and our movement has won,” Ulli Hussein Barta told a group of people gathered in a muted East Village basement last week. Thursday’s snowstorm, which had shut down public schools and closed businesses, had slowed to flurries as darkness fell. Inside Planeta, a community arts space on East Eighth Street near Avenue B, Read more

  • Smelling Green

    Move over Chanel No. 5: artist and chemist create money fragrance Mike Bouchet’s latest “sculpture” fills all 45,000 cubic feet of the white-walled, concrete-floored Marlborough Chelsea art gallery. There’s nothing to see. But don’t let the bare walls confuse you: the art is the smell. For his latest exhibition, entitled “Tender,” Bouchet has created the Read more

  • Advice From Past Lily

    I found this post hiding in my “drafts” folder from two years ago. Not sure what Past Lily intended to do with it, but it is sound (if a tad too honest) advice. Little Life Lessons: –You can definitely see pink underwear under a white skirt. –When dining with your mother’s friends be prepared to dine Read more