Lost

I did this in memory and tribute to my father who was helping my younger brother and his girlfriend who became his wife, installing a stronger storm window at their home in Valdez, Alaska.  

Preparations for the Wind

Did this in Astoria, NY 1999 in my apartment where I lived, was playing with my nylon acoustic guitar on my couch with just my analog recorder, thinking of the ambulence and fire truck sirens that I heard sometimes....

The Brave

Played my acoustic guitar in Astoria, NYC thinking of my brother and his girlfriend's home in Valdez, Alaska...how the rain reminds me of any corner of any city street, a calm light rain...

Familiar Wet Street Corner

Accountability

Solit

Willie Spain

I made this in a tribute to Amy O who came from Iowa to visit me in November 2001.  Her flight was originally in October, but for obvious reasons everyone knew, no flights would go so soon after the 9/11 attacks.  Amy and I had a wonderful  time together, and we danced together in the park near NY University under the arch as an older man started conducting us (there was no music playing, but she and just danced as we were conducted to nothing).  It was a sweet time that I would imagine gave Amy something good to remember about NYC and for me it was also a great thing to counter all the bad things that had happened at the WTC towers near Battery Park on the South Side of the borough of Manhattan, 

What Was Said (low vol, doorbell)

This was also something of a tribute to Amy O from Iowa coming to see me in NYC.  I took her around some of my favorite places in The Village in NYC and other NYC places that we had time for.  I joined a Lutheran Church in Manhattan in early 2002, and one of the couples there lived in NYC and they took me out to lunch once.   He told me a story that I won't forget either.  He was an Engineer who's office was in one the WTC towers on the highest floor.  He had gone to work that day on 9/11/01, and his company was able to go down the stairs in one of the WTC towers.  He said he remembered firemen walking up the stairs with heavy equipment and  fire hoses.  He of course was able to get away from the WTC towers and was able to be back with his own wife and life.  

Aaron Richard Kling