I started to write a post this morning about
the latest iteration of the Freedom Tower, which is supposed to replace the Twin Towers. Looking at the renderings, I was moved by how much the new building, in subtle ways, echoed the original towers. My old blog was all about the Lower Manhattan redevelopment, so I started the post by typing "Readers of my old blog" . Then, realizing that I needed to link to my old blog, I looked at if for the first time in about a year.
It was like coming onto an old cabin in the woods, slowly sinking back into the ground. With pop up windows and password abounding, I went into the template code and cleaned it up a bit. My blog basically chronicled all my reactions to 9/11 and as such is often very maudlin and cynical. A large portion of it was written while drunk. I killed it off and started this site to get away from the state of post traumatic malaise that it chronicled. Reading it afresh, I also realize that same impulse is a large part of why I moved from New York to L.A.
I felt bad leaving it in ruins. Reinvention's important, but shunning the scared and spastic kid who wrote this earlier stuff is stupid. I really love my life now and I'm very lucky to be surrounded by such talented, motivated and inspiring people, but that kid is the one who got me here. So, today's blog is his.
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