wouldn't it be nice to have more pictures here? i'll have to see about that. i suppose i do own a camera......
for the first time i actually feel like i live here. yesterday i was ready to call myself a new yorker. this is interesting to me because for a while i was actually feeling more and more like an ohioan, proud to be midwest and thinking about when i would be moving back to the heimat as it were.....i am still proud to be from the midwest/great lakes...but more than ever i live here and feel like what i thought was a love/hate relationship with this city actually has nothing to do with this city. every time i'm on my roof, every time i go up in a lift 130feet and look out over this crazy place i love it, i love being here and being a part of whatever we are all trying to make this place be. what might fascinate me most about new york is that everyone is on their way somewhere and they're going there in a hurry, whether they know where it is they're going or not. they are determined. what would it be like if a majority of these people began to be in a hurry to get to a similar place, not neccessarily a physical location either but say equality. what if everyone rushed to equality, rushed to throw their televisions out their windows and all at once there was a huge crashing sound and then we all rushed to get our brooms and sweep up the pieces and while we are all sweeping we introduce ourselves to our neighbors. we said hello with congenial smiles on our faces and genuine feelings of community in our little heads. and we concerned ourselves with our community's well being, and the wages of our neighbors and we rushed to say to government 'what you are doing is against what we believe in and by golly we elected you and we did a poor job of that. we the people take responsibility for that and we the people are going to rush to change that.' and so we rush to increase the minimum wage to a livable wage, and we rush to increase access to health care and higher education, and we rushed to make our streets and environment less polluted and more breathable. and we rushed..........
welll, we might rush right past each other..........
maybe we could mosy. with a quickness :)
for the first time i actually feel like i live here. yesterday i was ready to call myself a new yorker. this is interesting to me because for a while i was actually feeling more and more like an ohioan, proud to be midwest and thinking about when i would be moving back to the heimat as it were.....i am still proud to be from the midwest/great lakes...but more than ever i live here and feel like what i thought was a love/hate relationship with this city actually has nothing to do with this city. every time i'm on my roof, every time i go up in a lift 130feet and look out over this crazy place i love it, i love being here and being a part of whatever we are all trying to make this place be. what might fascinate me most about new york is that everyone is on their way somewhere and they're going there in a hurry, whether they know where it is they're going or not. they are determined. what would it be like if a majority of these people began to be in a hurry to get to a similar place, not neccessarily a physical location either but say equality. what if everyone rushed to equality, rushed to throw their televisions out their windows and all at once there was a huge crashing sound and then we all rushed to get our brooms and sweep up the pieces and while we are all sweeping we introduce ourselves to our neighbors. we said hello with congenial smiles on our faces and genuine feelings of community in our little heads. and we concerned ourselves with our community's well being, and the wages of our neighbors and we rushed to say to government 'what you are doing is against what we believe in and by golly we elected you and we did a poor job of that. we the people take responsibility for that and we the people are going to rush to change that.' and so we rush to increase the minimum wage to a livable wage, and we rush to increase access to health care and higher education, and we rushed to make our streets and environment less polluted and more breathable. and we rushed..........
welll, we might rush right past each other..........
maybe we could mosy. with a quickness :)
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