Another start...entitled The City...

It has been said that God made the country and man made the town. Who then made the city? It is my contention that the city is the natural and highest format of human creation and existence. Humans are never more human than when they are in the city. The city is where the highest elements of human achievement – art, science, poetry and politics - converge in a symphony of creativity, instinct and will. The city offers up every form of being and expression, a mother nursing her baby, a CEO firing his vice president, two boys in a schoolyard learning each other’s language, a pimp cutting his whore’s throat. With this comes every venue, the church, the crack house, the high court, the back alley, the hospital, the library, the art gallery, the brothel, the butcher shop, the crematorium. The city forces us together to confront, celebrate, disdain, and perfect our humanity everyday........................................................................