Walter Cronkite - Rest in Peace

View from top of the Empire State building

Another one of Tim Miller's pictures, but enhanced a little in Picassa! It's a view from the 86th story public observatory. I only discovered later that there is a much smaller observatory at the 102nd floor! I did not see it advertised. Apparantly it was meant to be the mooring place for airships coming into New York from Europe, but was later determined to be far to dangerous.

Ground Zero for Pacifism

I have never really been a person for patriotic moments, mostly I suppose because my age, colour and background as a caucasian African makes me a nation-deprived person. Last week I stood looking into the big hole that is Ground Zero, at the end of Manhatten in New York City, and I was strangely moved. I stood there on my own for at least five minutes, thinking about the three thousand plus people who perished, the unimaginable anguish of families who lost loved ones, images burned into my brain from 11 September 2001 where people jumped out of the twin towers to certain death ... and I said a prayer that for the first time in a long time made me think hard about pacifism.


The image was taken from Google Earth.