Sixty minutes on a street corner

More focus aerobics

“Los Angeles (Man with Hat from Behind)” (1955), Vivian Maier

Last week’s meditation about sitting in a coffeeshop for an hour proved so popular with readers—and fun for me—I’ve decided to make it into a series.

For how long? Who knows? Next week, an hour in a McDonald’s? For this week, Wednesday morning, eight a.m., I sat on a bench on Sunset Boulevard …