Sundays in My City – Flying Over New York City

I love New York City. I truly do. I wish it were really my city.

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Flying into NYC this view caught my breath when I realized what I was (not) looking at...

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Could you see the patch of sunlight over NYC?

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Leaving on a jet plane...

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I took these pictures in August when I was there for BlogHer 2010. I was thinking of New York City more than usual because of the anniversary of September 11 which was the day before this post was published.

I am leaving for a business trip again. [ETA: Boston]. Somehow this time I am feeling a bit resentful towards having to get on a plane and leave my family behind, and not just because in order to catch the 6 am flight I’ll need to get up before 4 am… This is peculiar since usually by Sunday noon I am already tired of all the whining and ready to get back to work where ABSOLUTELY NO WHINING IS ALLOWED.

“All my bags are packed I’m ready to go
I’m standin’ here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin’ it’s early morn
The taxi’s waitin’ he’s blowin’ his horn
Already I’m so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go
Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane…”

Unknown Mami

23 thoughts on “Sundays in My City – Flying Over New York City

  1. Mary Lee

    I love these pictures! DB has lived there a couple of times, returning home on weekends. I would love to have lived there awhile. We still talk about it sometimes. We didn’t want to uproot the kids and I’m not second guessing that, but I think living there and learning to get around would instill confidence. Or agoraphobia.
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  2. Absence Alternatives Post author

    It’s my fault for being confusing. I went to Boston for business. Those pictures were taken when I went to BlogHer in NYC this August. I simply put my iPhone (without a SIM card) next to the window and then Tap Tap Tap until I can no longer see anything interesting. I’ve been doing this for a while now and I gather all the photos (good and bad) here on Flickr:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/secretinnerlife/sets/72157622701681940/

    I would love going back to NYC in the near future. Yes, we should plan on a reunion of some sort. That would be LOVELY. I want to cry just thinking about it.

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