Gayle Brennan Spencer – sending random thoughts to and from South Austin
If you didn’t meander through the streets from the Central Library to the Tobin Center last night, this evening brings another opportunity to experience the art, lights and sounds of Luminaria San Antonio 2014. Los Angeles-based La Santa Cecilia plays the main stage tonight. Had the opportunity to enjoy this group performing at the International Accordion Festival a couple of years ago. For a preview, watch the Tiny Desk Concert provided by National Public Radio.
I was not keen on recalling the events of ten years ago on September 11, particularly since we were going to be on a transatlantic flight landing in Rome on the anniversary.
But artist Marilyn Lanfear asked me to contribute to a group project, a book she was compiling of artists’ reflections about what they were doing when they first heard the news reports in 2001.
At first I thought, no story there. There was nothing out of the ordinary driving our daughter to school in the old minivan across the Olmos Basin listening to NPR.
But then I realized perhaps that was the point. The day the nation lost that feeling of security started off as simply another day, as it had for so many who lost their lives on the East Coast.
But for them. The day. Stopped.
Postcards from Barton Springs 