City Resolution

Author Chris Colin finally brought his daughter to New York, after years and years away, and it may as well have been a new city:

I began seeing grand indifference everywhere. The immigrant struggles against waves of economic indifference. The chaos of the ’70s and ’80s that evinced municipal indifference. The luck of falling in love with wife-to-be Amy here, being awakened that first summer morning together by the call to prayer from that mosque on State Street—this was luck and beauty in the face of indifference all around. Tumble in off the rim, and it will swallow up every facet of you.

From the city’s restaurants, to its roadways, to the ambiguity of its rails, Colin riffs on the notion of going home again, over at Afar.

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Bryan Washington has written for Puerto Del Sol, Ninth Letter, and Midnight Breakfast, among others; he's also the recipient of a Houstonia Fellowship. He lives around New Orleans.

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