Park

At park this morning, woman wearing long skirt, Beads, and linen coat and Great Dane marches up to Jenny, leans down and talks to her in baby voice, which given Jenny's past behavior with strangers think potentially embarassing for all concerned, but Jenny responds enthusiastically to advances. Woman produces similar effect on own person. Shyness evaporates and hear myself telling woman about how we adopted Jenny and that am very worried that we will have to give her back. Woman says firmly, It Will All Work Out. (Later see that conviction based on nothing, but at the time very comforting.) Woman says she owns furniture store on Greene Street and Do I know it? Do know it, and have often coveted furniture for sale within, which is approximately twice as much as would like to spend. Somehow find myself telling her about job and Mystery which (unbeknownst to me until now) is Coming Along. Meanwhile, woman's Great Dane (introduced as Harold), who sniffs Jenny in very solicitous but kind way. As we part, woman says that her name Serena. Try to think of mnemonic device such as The Calm One, but see that device could also lead to thinking name is Clara or even Alma. Device, rather than simplify things, has, as usual, done the oppositee. Fear that have no hope of remembering name. Am grimly positive that will remember to the grave that Great Dane called Harold.