we celebrate it as the birth of a new one in the family

Yesterday I was in the financial district. I don't usually walk around there, but when I do, the past is present for me. I got out at Cortlandt and walked through Zuccotti Park. Everything shifting all the time. It still eeks me out a little being down there like the dust still hasn't settled from 9/11. I guess it hasn't for me. Can't pay me enough to ever hang out in the oculus. What happened to that oral history project about Occupy Wall Street that I was part of? I can't remember that person's name. They took recordings of a few of us walking around and sharing our memories of how it was then. I still see the kitchen and the bike-powered generators, the media area, sanitation. It's all still there for me, but of course it has changed. So many surveillance cameras, everywhere in all directions. I laughed out loud when I saw them.