9.11.2009
I never know exactly what to do with myself on 9/11. I was lost 8 years ago and still feel lost today. The emails come in, friends talk... but I think since we deal with it everyday we live here that when the day arrives we try to just go on with life. After 9/11/01 I busied myself documenting the memorials at all of the firehouses, so each year I find an FDNY event to capture. This year, like the last, I went to Engine 10 Ladder 10 directly across from the WTC. At sunset the FDNY Emerald Society Pipes and Drums come out and play. Always a crowd, always wonderful, always emotional. Then a walk over to the "lights". Tonight in the rain there were beautiful rainbows spiraling depending where you stood. A very different day then eight years ago...
I do still find it strange how the firehouses turn into tourist stops, do they get a map of the 'big' ones or something??
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I do still find it strange how the firehouses turn into tourist stops, do they get a map of the 'big' ones or something??
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David Paterson read this at the memorial today - how perfect:
I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the
attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;
I dream'd that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love
I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the
attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;
I dream'd that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love
- it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.
- Walt Whitman (1867)
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.
- Walt Whitman (1867)
9.10.2009
there are no words...
My memorial from 2001 http://eyemaze.net/FD/pg/FD.htm I am trying to update the site right now, I might be up all night...
update - i did upload this, but not loving it. thoughts?
My memorial from 2001 http://eyemaze.net/FD/pg/FD.htm I am trying to update the site right now, I might be up all night...
update - i did upload this, but not loving it. thoughts?
4.07.2009
