on seeing LOVE at the Philadelphia International Airport for the first time

Today was the day. Long-awaited. More wonderful than imagined. With greatest thanks to Leah Douglas and Ursula Stuby of the Philadelphia International Airport Exhibitions Program for their glorious interpretation of Love: A Philadelphia Affair (Temple University Press), now on exhibit at Terminal D (10). How glorious it was to spend time with these two wonderful women, and to spend time as well with the Airport's delightful CEO, Chellie Cameron—learning about the plans for this airport and the future of travel in my beloved city.

With thanks to my father, for joining us, and to Bill, for taking the photographs you see here. I'll be forever honored by this.

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LOVE at the Philadelphia International Airport, a six-month exhibition now up in Terminal D

For the past many months, Leah Douglas and Ursula Stuby have been working with their incredible team to bring my LOVE: A Philadelphia Affair photographs and thoughts to life at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Today they unveiled the exhibition. It is up. It is real.

An exhibition like this one stills the whirligig thoughts that haunt me. It makes me stop, pause, be grateful for all the wanderings and ponderings that have led me here.

The exhibit is located in Terminal D, accessible by ticketed passengers and presented by the Exhibitions Program at the Philadelphia International Airport. It will be up through the Democratic Convention—its own brand of welcome committee to those who travel to and from our city.

I am, and always will be, grateful.

If you are en route and happening by—like my gorgeous friend Heather, who inspired my character Ada, in Going Over—this wall would love to greet you.

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