Still July 3 2010

Midtown, Manhattan

We've had a beautiful sunny morning! Wandering around Bryant Park. A wonderful French moment on the merry go round accompanied by the voice of Edith Piaf. A magical ride!

We visited the lions outside the New York Library and Atlas holding the globe on 51st St and 5th Ave. The world is in our hands!

Columbus Circle. The old and the new. Sculptures, drumming and dreaming.

We continued to Little Italy and Chinatown. Holding on to old memories while creating new ones. Making new friends. Watching frogs in a bucket with a young Chinese boy!

Then on to the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, where the entrance of Prospect Park meets the Brooklyn Library. It was an extremely hot day.

Are we scary?!? A young woman thought so!

The Rhodin-sculptures at Brooklyn Museum called to us. Their agony brought me to tears. The children playing in the fountain outside washed them away. A man following us asked "Where do you come from?" "Are you aliens?" He kept saying "I'm not afraid of you! You don't scare me!" He looked worried. I think I scared him. I shook his hand. His eyes lit up.

Sunset at Fulton Landing, Brooklyn. Felt a little lost. Tired. The city gives and takes...

Looking out over the water, the skyline of lower Manhattan, the silhouette of Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty in the far distance - the entry point for so many immigrants once. Hopeful hearts beating with dreams of change and new beginnings. A new life. A better life. An island of hope.

Feeling the wind in my face. The same wind that has touched so many before me. A magical wind. The wind of hope - past and present!

Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz

At Columbus Circle

Wendy Davidson at Fulton Landing

Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz