Snow Days

I have been in New York for about 1.5 month now. The breathtaking landscape of the city still doesn't cease to amaze me and embues an aura of romance and cosmopolitanism (is this a word?) even to the mundane things (like eating at a diner, for example).

Work is going well..it's getting busier by the day. A snowstorm fell on the city last week and it snowed a bit today. But I find it amusing/humorous to see people trekking about (especially the ever-ubiquitous crowd in downtown Flushing), unfazed by the inclement weather and simply going about their business. Welcome to New York City.

"Paralyzed or Free"

Most of the people on earth today are paralyzed by what are said to be the consequences of their sins. The destitute of the world have it hammered into their consciousness--by those who, like the scribes, have the power in our day to define sins--that they are poor because they are lazy; or that they are poor because they have mismanaged their resources; or because they have squandered opportunities; or because, in the most blatantly evil definitions of guilt, they are black or female or homosexual or members of whatever part of humanity the powerful choose to define as subhuman and sinful. Paralysis, hunger, homelessness and early death are, according to the rich and powerful, the direct consequences of the poor and powerless having sinned in one way or another.... [But] the paralytic walks away because he has become a new human being. Transformed within and without, he is freed from paralysis. ~James Douglass