It’s been a little while. Here is a photo of a building under construction in the sunset. I took it from a high-up window in a clinic waiting room. I am there pretty often for professional reasons. When I took the photo, there was a woman was standing next to me who had been at the clinic for several hours already. A thing happened that actually happens to me pretty often at this window. People start talking, just a little bit, letting the blanket of privacy and worry that they wrap around themselves slide off a bit more than they would in the soft seating (technical term, btw). They don’t talk about the reasons that they’re waiting, either. I hope that nonetheless they are thinking of the scope of the project of conceiving and then building a sky scraper, the reach of the project, the possibilities of the tools we’ve invented.
That’s so cool I can’t help but think the people who put it up understood how cool it was going to look, at least subconsciously.