Ground Zero

Today - July 10, 2005 - I arrived in NYC for business. My office is next to Ground Zero.

Today I visited Ground Zero for the first time since that fateful day. Now rebuilding it is still a powerful place. I stood outside my office and remembered. Just stood and remembered…

• Coming through NYC on the way to the Grateful Dead show, playing tourist and going to the top of the WTC Towers
• On that same trip taking the ferry ride to see the NYC skyline
• My first business trip, staying at the Millennium Hilton and walking around the WTC because I didn’t know there was a walkway connecting the hotels to the WTC and into the World Financial Center
• Stopping and standing looking straight up at the Towers amazed at the height
• Finally finding the walkway and enjoying not going out in the rain around the building
• Window shopping in the underground mall and getting good pizza on another business trip
• My friend loaning me his subway pass, taking me to the WTC station and showing me what train to take to get to Brooklyn
• Standing in my office building admiring the WTC Towers
• Standing in my living room and watching the Towers fall
• Wondering if everyone I knew was safe on 9/11
• Praying for the those who were not and their families and friends

Powerful place filled with emotion.