New York City in the rain
Monday, January 25, 2010
All through the night, there's been rain and howling wind, and now, in the dark, I gather my things for a day trip to Wall Street.
I remember a day, years ago, when Kate Moses, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Camille Peri, and I were all headed uptown to give a reading from the Salon.com anthology, Mothers Who Think. Rain had overtaken Manhattan, and every subway stop was flooded through, and from stop to stop we ran, Reiko the transplanted New Yorker leading the way. We were to meet Jayne Anne Phillips and others at a bookstore. We were not to be late. We put our trust entirely in this gorgeous green-eyed, dark-haired physicist-athlete-writer, and she did not let us down.
I'd never met Reiko before that day. She became and now remains one of my very best friends. Whenever I go to New York City, I think first of her, and how it was that she got us safely through.
4 comments:
It was raining buckets and cold the first time I explored the city this past Nov. Thankfully another author friend was there as a guide. I still say there is no better way to visit the city than have someone who knows it intimately. (Hugs)Indigo
It was pouring here last week, but it's sunny today. (Yay!) New York City still looks amazing in the rain, though. :)
I love a city - any city, in the rain.
I laugh at this a little, the idea of writers coming together like this. It seems somewhat contrary but then not everyone is like me...
The rain...it seems so out of order for me in spite of it raining here yesterday which it never does...not in January. That's usually reserved for March or April. It unsettles my spirit.
xo
erin
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