Thousands are sailing
Dad and Mom, New York City, 1968. (Thank you Aunt Katie!) Anyone recognize the location?
My phone rang for the umpteenth time late afternoon: I glanced down. Another New York call. Business. Better take it.
"Kyran Pittman," I answered.
There was an unbusiness-like sigh. It took me a minute to place the voice. Familiar, but different.
"Do you know, I was twenty five years old the last time I was in this city?"
Today is my Mom's 65th birthday. I'm sitting in Little Rock airport about to board a flight to join her in New York, where she has been since just before that phone call. Her, or a twenty five year old girl I've never met.
I can't wait.
Labels: the way we were
—Kyran, 6:26 AM
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8 Comments:
That looks like the west side, on the Hudson River. There are a bunch of docks on that side. Cruise ships and ferries use them. Were they sailing out to Liberty Island? It's an absolutely beautiful photo.
This was taken on the Staten Island Ferry - the two people in front of them are Jim (a friend of Ken's from monastery days) and his partner Kirby - we were all staying with them in their very "hippie" apartment.
Neither can we...
Amazing. Enjoy xox
Oh Katie beat me to it. I know that view well. I used to take the ferry to work every morning for years. Have a wonderful time with your mom. Wish her a happy birthday for me.
Fine I will stop calling/stalking you! :-)
xoxoxoxoxo
that is right in front of the whitehall street ferry terminal at the tip of manhatten which is the drop off point for the Staten Island Ferry. I spent alot of time there:)
...my 2 cents...
Great Picture.
I've got The Pogues in my head now!! Wonderful, wonderful.
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