Stacy Horn

I omitted one picture yesterday, two cops at the site. (I love their raincoats. And their pose.)

I’m so mad at myself. There’s a thing going on right now at the Beacon theatre for 9/11 families and rescue worker and volunteers. Tickets were given out I guess on a lottery basis, and I got two!

Hillary Clinton is going to be there, along with a lot of other interesting speakers and performances, music, etc. I was downtown having lunch with my fellow 9/11 volunteers and I was going to go from there, but I left my tickets at home!! IDIOT. For security reasons you had to arrive by 4pm. So I missed out. I can’t complain. I really had a great day.

Here are pictures I took on my way to meeting my friends for lunch. Some are probably like, “Why did you take a picture of that?” I will explain. Like this first one. This is in front of the site. The towers would have stood behind these guys. It was the small stack of water bottles. During the recovery effort whenever we needed something it appeared. A lot of my time was spent stacking stuff that was donated from all over the country and the world. Sometimes I’d spend an entire day stacking breakfast bars, for instance. Or water bottles. Or shoes for the rescue workers. Their boots kept melting because the fires burned underground for months.

So now sometimes when I see a stack of stuff that’s meant to be given away to whoever needs it I think, “Oh yeah. People are kind.”

That’s the 10/10 firehouse at the bottom right, which is across the street from the Trade Center. To the left of that, where you see the blue sign with the towers, is the Tribute Center where I volunteer occasionally.

Along this wall (you can’t see it from this angle) is the FDNY memorial, which is next to the 10/10 firehouse.

This fireman is standing in front of the memorial. He caught my eye. I came back to photograph him. Isn’t there something about him, the way he is looking at me? Don’t you want to know what his story is?

Okay, this is another thing that says 9/11 to me. On 9/11, all the bars around the WTC will be so packed the guys spill out onto the sidewalk out front. No disrespect. Nothing wrong with having a drink on 9/11.

And here are me and my friends at Moran’s on Washington Street. Thank you, Moran’s!! You did a great job for us. I posted about them a year ago and a day.

It was freaking LOUD. But as I said in the video, I got two free lipsticks out of it so I’m cool. Apparently I am very very easy.

Heading down to the trade center for lunch with my 9/11 volunteer friends later!

Two
different
cameras
and
it
seems
like
my
hair
is
two
different
lengths!

The
isight
camera
(the first two)
is
still
more
flattering.

I
went
shorter
than
I said I would!

I know some of you think I shouldn’t get my hair cut, but the reality is it’s so long now I wear in a ponytail every day. That look in my new author photo?  Only happens when I get it professionally blown out, and I do that, like, almost never.  I’m getting the same haircut, it’s really just a trim.  I can’t wait. I love haircut day.

Oh wow.  All the birds on the fire escape just took off for no discernible reason.  This is a movie cliche for something bad about to happen.  In War of the World it meant the aliens were about to descend on the crowd. Oh god, it always means a monster is about to appear, or a tidal wave is about to hit, etc.   Looking around. Hmmm.

Anyway … this picture of a dove taking a rest from eating me out of house and home and making a mess all over the place makes my window look so dirty!  In reality they’re pretty clean.  I get them done at least once a year, twice if I’m feeling less poor.