Day 4 - Back to work
01/9/14 5:46 PM - The rain this morning made the rescue workers'
labors much more difficult, while it cleansed the air for the
rest of us.
I want to make this my last entry under the heading "Attack
on New York." Like most people in this city, I know it's
time to get back to work. Our routine tasks may seem banal and
unimportant after this horrendous interruption, but they are
the routines of life. We pick them up again with greater awareness
of how precious they are, and how fragile.
This will be posted late, because I've lost access to the
Internet for now. The technician at Earthlink said a building
had collapsed on one of their routers in Manhattan. I'm confident
it will be repaired soon. I'm confident that many things will
be repaired, and that we will continue to be a vigorous, welcoming,
energetic and diverse nation, sadder and, I hope, a little wiser.
Day
1 - The first impact
| Day 2 -
The city stilled |
Day
3 - A cloud and pleas | Day 4 - Back to work | Day 5 - A final word