Some of Your Stories...
Check out some of our contributors who had their High Line
adventure and have written for us! This will be updated with more of
your stories as they come in! Have fun and be in our book!!!
Just Walk / Shari and Steven Goldstein
It was a great moment for me, as a mom, watching my 2 teenage boys walking shoulder to shoulder in front of my husband and me, engaged in what seemed like great conversation. I realized ... 2 young guys, brothers, very different personalities yet best of friends. I felt accomplished...proud...happy.
I remember when we mentioned to the boys in the morning that we were going to NYC to walk The High Line they had no idea what we were talking about!
Throughout the walk my younger son would turn around and ask "where are we walking to?" I'd say "no where, just keep on walking."
This was probably the first time we walked together with no destination. It was a walk with no plan or a time schedule... Between work, school and sports, our life was always on a hectic schedule. It was wonderful to "just walk." This was a walk I will always treasure.
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Shari Goldstein, Speech-Language Pathologist, Westport, CT.
Picture of Todd Goldstein (18), Shari Goldstein, Jordan Goldstein (15) taken by Steven Goldstein on the HIGH LINE, December 2011
HIGH LINE: A PALIMPSEST
Look: Train tracks recede, overgrown
by feathery greens, by petals aching
with red, tinged with purple
& rust. New trajectories unite city
to sky (cracked like a shattered
glass eye). Listen: Polyglot ghosts
traipse over pictograms
of tracks, invisible feet etching history.
Abandoned destinations dissolve into dusk.
Travelers marvel at an opalescent tower
rising like an iceberg: site of Titanic’s
phantom arrival. While tourists film a seminary,
hives of specters wait to be seen. Look: mural
of a kiss more explosive than World War II.
Silhouettes on poles like skewered meat.
A spiraling sculpture unspools
a future we may never see. Underfoot,
long grasses coil into obscure script.
They fade & die
as a camera enthralls all with a click.
Palimpsest: a parchment from which writing has been erased to make room for another text.
Dean Kostos is the author of seven books. His most recent poetry collection--This Is Not a Skyscraper--won the Benjamin Saltman Award, selected by Mark Doty and published by Red Hen Press.
Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!
It all started randomly at the Barnes & Noble gift wrap desk.
It was the call you dread, I have lung cancer, but we caught it early. We will operate on Thursday. "I can't," I say. "I have parents visiting weekend. Will I die if the operation waits until Tuesday?" I survive.
We celebrate every year.
We celebrate everything.
We celebrate with cake.
We celebrate on the High Line
Congratulations!
Amy Churgin, former magazine publisher and Condé Nast executive. Pictured: Gary Churgin, Amy, and daughters: Jackie & Lizzie, Sept. 2016
Love Wins
THE RIGHT TO MARRY
RAISED US OVER THE HIGH LINE
EQUALITY. LOVE WINS
Jeff Kagan and Joel Pascua, Matawan, New Jersey. Wedding day on the HIGH LINE: October 11, 2013 (National Coming Out Day), Photo by: Manny Rico