Sunday in the City

We started out the day going to the chapel that is located in this beautiful building. Unfortunately, we had an amazing race kind of experience when we got there--finding out that the building was under renovation and we were directed across The Park to another location. It was only difficult because there was an awareness walk going on that caused a lot of congestion on the west side, which, of course, was where we were going. Fortunately, we had built in some time and amazingly managed to arrive just before the meeting started
at this lovely stake center.We heard a memorable talk on missionary work that began with this quote:

from "Here is New York" (1948)

by E. B. White

There are roughly three New Yorks.

There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable.

Second, there is the New York of the commuter--the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.

Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

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After church we went for a walk around the MET...with the audio tour, of course, so that we would have a better appreciation of the things that we were seeing.

Greek Statuary...American Architecture...

Roman Art...
and Old World Masters...
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Tricia and I had gone to this landmark restaurant in Central Park on a previous trip to the city. I enjoyed going back there with Doug this afternoon.