"I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you"

weekend essay reading recommendation from Colson Whithead, November 2001, a lifetime ago and also a profound time for NYC

this essay (and that opening sentence above) helped me understand myself  - 3rd generation of NYCer, whose family has been here continuously for 120 years - as much as anything ive ever read

moreso, its a story of place, and the meaning of place, and the meaning of change, and embracing change even when we are .... scared by it

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-11-11-01-lost-and-found.html

I remember the first time Andy told me to read this 

I am glad I did