How Things Could Be

The holiday season is rambling along. All of that marvelous good feeling and holiday potential that seems to come to an abrupt halt and then that anticipation of the New Year...

If you want the opportunity to delve down deep once more before year's end, I recommend that you visit the New York Historical Society, 77th and Central aPark West, to see "Here is New York: 9/11 Remembered" ...a huge collection of photos taken by a host of different photographers concerning 9/11. There are amazing artifacts as well, such as a portion of the wheel of American Airlines Flight 11.

When we were at the Newkirk Plaza subway station heading toward the NYHS, we met one of my daughters' music teachers. She and her husband were entertaining visitng friends from Pitsburgh, there home town. THey had expressed an interest in seeing the WTC site. We chatted and realized that since time has passed, not everyone currently living in NYC was here for 9/11. Everyone will have memories of that day, but if you were here it will be impossible to see this exhibit without feeling a wave of emotion. Both for the terribel memories, but also for the realization that for a few days immediately following, New Yorkers lived as though things could and would never be different, that we would live kinder, gentler, more generous lives, more in the moment, more rooted in living lives of personal sacrtifice and meaning..it was an amazing time to live in NYC. A brief window, like the holiday season, into How Things Could Be.