New York

I just return from New York after three years of absence.

I have been visiting and  living there throughout all my adulthood. Some of the most important things in my life has taken place there.  The city in these days has something dull and broken. It immediately reminded me those days when, as a avid youngster, I went through the city for the first time. It was in bankruptcy. I had mixed feelings. I did not know if I liked it  or, if I did not.  But those were the most creative and  artistic  times of that Babel.

Being the window to the United Sates and its  economic brain,  the town reflects dramatically the times they are living in. Walking in those streets you may feel and watch  the enormous impact of the greatest financial disaster since the Great Depresion. But the characteristic energy of that unique place is intact. Some things have change for the good but I  missed them when I noticed it. Some other are new and they are a surprise in both ways…

In general, people do not look as happy as in previous times. Rather worry about the future.

 But the city soul,  eternally and wonderfully, remains the same...