Kristen and I took our first walk across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. You get a whole new appreciation for the structure walking it, much more so than seeing it from the shore or even driving over it.
The New York City Waterfalls exhibit is currently running. The most striking aspect of it, to me, is how insignificant the falls look in their setting. I do not mean that in a bad way, they are quite impressive, and when you stand on the eastern side of the Brooklyn Bridge over the falls you get a real sense of their scale. But what really struck me is that you have these four man-made, 90-100 foot tall structures cycling over 2 
million gallons of East River water every hour, and still the structures are dwarfed by their surroundings.
I read that the artist wanted the exhibit to be as much about the negative space as the structures themselves, and on that he truly succeeded. The Brooklyn Bridge fall is impressive, but completely dwarfed by the Brooklyn Bridge column that it sits adjacent to. It’s very fitting that a massive exhibit built by man to mimic nature is lost among a massive city built by man.
A year ago I posted how I was quitting my full time job to work on my writing. I did that, but as with most things in life, it didn’t turn out quite as I expected. No dramatic change to the life of a writer, starting a new life of art and such pursuits, leaving what was far behind. The truth is, honestly, over that past year I’ve spent approximately half of that time working. Working at my old place of employment, to be exact. It turns out that short term project work is something they need, and something I much prefer to a 9-5 with no end in sight. Take some time off, write, go back, earn some money, repeat as often as I can for as long as I can.
I used to always wonder why my father, who was essentially a mechanic in his regular job, used to procrastinate when it came time to help me work on my car. Now that I’m a computer tech and I find myself with a crippled computer at home and no desire to work on anything electronic after a full day at the office, I finally understand.
