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Days of Awe

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Abigail

Days of Awe On the anniversary of September 11, I often rerun the column that I posted here in September 2001, after my visit to the City, a week later. Like many people, I’d felt shattered by the attack on … Continue reading →

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The Burning of Notre Dame

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Abigail

The Burning of Notre Dame The first photos showed the cathedral’s high spire falling, its skeletal wood frame silhouetted against the engulfing red flames and – seen from the city’s venerable center – a column of smoke rising. Notre Dame … Continue reading →

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September 11, A Week Later

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Abigail

This post, written the week after September 11, 2011, is dedicated to Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz. Starting at the 88th floor on the North Tower, they went from floor to floor calling out to people who crouched in … Continue reading →

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September 11, A Week Later –

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Abigail

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Action, Alienation, Art, Cities, Contradictions, Cool, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Friendship, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, History, history of ideas, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Institutional Power, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Memoir, non-violence, Peace, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Roles, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time, twenty-first century, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged 9/11, art protection, attack, Byzantine crucifix, city walkers, cops, crisis, crisis center, cultural crisis, defining event, emergency vehicles, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Faith, fear, fearfulness, FEMA, fire station, first responders, God Bless America, gratitude, Ground Zero, heroes, immanence, Jihad, Job, Kali, Lower Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum, National Guard, New York City, New York Subway, New Yorkers, realism, sorrow, spirit, sprit of the City, street smarts, terrorism, Todd Stone, transcendence, TV history, urban neighborhood, voyeurism, walking intelligently, Wall Street, war zone | 2 Comments

“Hanging Fire”

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Abigail

“Hanging Fire” I seem to be at a rather gratifying plateau. “Confessions of a Young Philosopher” is now edited almost to completion. It may take another few weeks but the major hurdles have been cleared. It is, if I … Continue reading →

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“Places”

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Abigail

“Places” “There are no places anymore.” This was the complaint we two hitchhikers, Anna and me, heard from an American traveler at a roadside stop. Our informant — who was saying this to his two compatriots many decades back — … Continue reading →

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“Coincidence?”

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Abigail

“Coincidence?” I have a particular fondness for deer. After many a summer sojourn in Downeast Maine, I once said to friends, “You know, I’ve never seen a deer here.” That very afternoon, as I was driving home, a doe obligingly … Continue reading →

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