Sitting on a park bench looking across the Hudson River at the Colgate Clock and Ellis Island. Two hours left on the laptop battery, three bars on an open wifi network, it’s relatively quiet and a cool breeze is blowing in off the river. It’ll probably rain soon, but for now I’m catching up on email and relaxing a bit.

I walked by Ground Zero for the first time in a long time. It makes me kind of wish I worked in construction. I also saw the memorial and tower models in the Winter Garden atrium. They’re going to be beautiful. Most encouraging, there will be a clean, perfect vertical line up the southernmost corner of the Freedom Tower. I rarely heard it mentioned, if ever, but the corners of the old WTC towers were astounding, perfect vertical planes going up nearly a fifth of a mile. I’d never seen anything else like it. When the new tower is done, I’ll be most looking forward to that sourthern point, standing at the bottom and looking up along the tallest unbroken vertical line on Earth.