Power & Beauty: A Love Story of Life on the Streets by Tip "t.i." Harris & David Ritz

Author:Tip "t.i." Harris & David Ritz [Harris, Tip "t.i." & Ritz, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: UFS2
ISBN: 0062067656
Amazon: B00F6DCTU0
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2011-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

A Quiet Place in the City

The months flew by. Life fell into a routine. And then it happened.

It happened in the one place where it never should have happened. It happened over the one weekend when I felt happy about getting off the grid. Professor Severina was going to a four-day conference in Boston and asked me if I could house-sit. Her regular house sitter had the flu and my teacher’s two dogs and cat needed care. I was happy to help. I was also happy when my cell phone went on the blink. I’d get it fixed, but I’d wait till Monday. That meant no one could reach me. It felt good to be unreachable, especially as I sat in the place that I called my refuge.

It was where I went practically every night and every morning, in between work and before and after classes. It was where I put my mind at ease, sat and drank a glass of wine or a caffe latte, or just kicked back and listened to a gifted brotha play gentle jazz on his acoustic guitar. It was a combination café/bar/coffee shop nestled in between an office building and an art gallery. I went in the first time because of its name—A Quiet Place in the City. I was looking for quiet. I loved how the walls were covered with cushiony fabrics and the floors covered with thick carpets. The noise of New York was never to my liking. New York restaurants and bars stuck with a policy of “the louder the better.” The racket of people talking was supposed to indicate that this was a hot spot for business deals and romantic hookups. After work, that was exactly what I wanted to get away from. So I loved A Quiet Place. I felt safe there. I felt centered. Fact is, two months before I had kept my twenty-first birthday quiet and spent it there alone. Never in a million years would I have guessed that A Quiet Place was where my life would change forever.

Funny how life deceives you. Life looks like it’s giving you a rhythm, a reason and a rhyme. Life seems to be making sense. Things seem to be settling down. I had a new sense of self-assurance and self-knowledge.

After a long day at the Holly Windsor Agency, I settled down at A Quiet Place in the City. It was beautiful sitting there by the window and looking out on lower Broadway. People rushing by. Traffic fierce. Cool fall weather. After living in the city nine months I was beginning to understand what Slim was wanting for me. Slim wanted me to see how Irv Wasserman operated. He operated subtly; in the end, he didn’t trust anyone. Slim wanted to see what I’d become under the influence of Sugar—a guy consumed by ego and deadly drugs. And finally Slim wanted me to see how a brilliant woman like Holly Windsor brought balance to business—by cutting out the emotions.

I thought I had cut out the emotions.

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