Monday, January 14, 2002


yesterday was the four-month mark for the world trade center tragedy. since i work downtown, walk past the site everyday, have lived with all the crowds and vicissitudes, wrote about it all here, i thought i was really over it. i had accepted it.

then this monday morning. . .a spate of cold weather. a beautiful crystal clear day. i walked into my living room and straight over to the window to gaze at the lovely view of the financial district i enjoy from my brooklyn apartment. for a moment i froze with fear. a large plume of white smoke drifted from the top of one of the modern buildings, 55 water.

then i suddenly realized it was the exhaust of the building's steam heat blowing into the frigid air! i took a breath. maybe i still need just a little more time. . .

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