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September 11, A Week Later
This post, written the week after September 11, 2001, 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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Days of Awe
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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September 11, A Week Later
This post, written the week after September 11, 2001, 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 –
This post, written the week after September 11, 2001, 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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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
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“Hanging Fire”
“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 may … Continue reading
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“Places”
“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?”
“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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