• Life In General

    September 11th

    September 11, 2020 /

    This photograph was taken during construction of the Twin Towers, circa 1972.  If you are interested you can read a short story about the photograph…….click here.  The photographer posted it on Flickr yesterday. Some days stay with you forever….birthdays, anniversaries of many kinds and historical events.  You have specific memories that come to surface each time that anniversary comes around.  What you were doing….where you were….. This poem always come to my mind on this anniversary……. From the 104th Floor A Poem by Leda Rodis When the plane hit the building rocked first to the right then to the left, and outside all the skyscrapers of New York seemed to…

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  • Composites,  Life In General

    Hello World ~ It’s Been Awhile

    March 21, 2020 /

    Good time as any to dust this old blog off.  🙂  I – like many others across the globe – am practicing self isolation.  Strange times require familiarity, doing things that I find comfort in.  For me it can be different things on different days.  On Thursday it was creating a new composite that had been rolling around in my head for some time.  🙂 The star of this new piece is my Survivor – dressed in her well worn formal wear, gas mask and no shoes.  She walks unfamiliar landscapes – perhaps looking for hope.  She will be part of a series I will be creating.  Something In The…

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  • Life In General

    That beautiful Tuesday morning….

    September 11, 2013 /

    There are some things you never forget….memorable events in your life….the birth of a child….the passing of loved ones….and what you were doing on the day historic events happened. September 11, 2001.  It was a beautiful morning…sunshine, blue skies.  I will never forget how blue the sky was that morning…..here at home and in New York.  I was driving to work when the radio DJ told everyone about a horrible accident that had just occurred in New York City….”turn on your televisions” he said…he has never told the radio audience to walk away from the radio and go to the television.  I was minutes away from work so when I arrived the first thing I did was…

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