Go ahead and go for it!

[Grazyna Drabik]

Dear All,

I think my mournful attitude of the last few days prevented me from hearing your proposals with generosity of spirit they deserved.

Thank you, Cristian & Chaz, for our conversation yesterday evening. Listening with more attention, I realized you knew what you wanted to do & that I could trust your good sense and commitment.

I realized also I shouldn’t have been so worried about a too broad scope or false promises or impossibility of doing research under current circumstances etc etc. Revisiting, I noted a common thread connecting all of your proposals, although each unique in approach: a wish to highlight something positive and special about this city, and to do it in your way. Perhaps that’s what really is needed right now: more celebration of life, in a free-spirited manner.

So yes, go ahead:
Eric, Jane, Javier, & Katherine – go forward, if you still wish with your full original “double celebration” of the best of Harlem and Borough Park, or in a modified form (as you had already posted it) – just don’t let my Tuesday misery make you too modest and too careful. Indeed, good food and good music are beautiful twins.
Alex, Kristen, and Leondra – go ahead, invent your impossible Heart of New York racing game!
Liam, Ryan, Varin, and Zara – do your Ode to New York Pizza!
Adam, Anna, and Ash, astound us with the scope of imaginative overview of the heartbeat in all five boroughs.
Chaz & Cristian take us on the walk of your mid-Manhattan.
And we’ll taste & look, play & marvel, to the sounds of Cory’s and Leonidas’s Urban Song.
O.K., let it be our imperfect but exuberant Joy to New York symphony.

Best, GD

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