Friday morning in America.
A steady rain falls over the New York metro area. It’s a double edged sword – the rain will help clear the air, but it will also make rescue and recovery efforts more difficult. It may also destabilize more buildings.
I prefer to take the literary tack here – way back in Mrs. Savedoff’s 9th Grade Humanities English class, we were taught that water was a literary symbol of rebirth – characters who undergo great torment are somehow renewed by a falling rain, bathing in a river, etc. Maybe this rain is New York’s rebirth, the city emerging from the water stronger and more resiliant than it was at the beginning of the week.
Harlan had an excellent idea with regard to putting together a CD, with nearly all money made going to the relief effort. He’s taking song suggestions.