Where I Am

WHERE I AM! “Where am I?” I ask, an aging citizen in a small cold place in Upstate New York …..but my fellow citizens in the suburban towns have given up on my City and its proud but struggling peoples, they want to slink in and work then flee as fast as the Interstates will allow….but I want to live in a work of art in progress, participate in the unfolding of faith, opportunity, good work rewarded not only with money, property and the pursuit of happiness, but with the spiritual fulfillment of taking care of one another…….. Yesterday, the afternoon high was nine degrees, it was bright and sunny, I shoveled the snow, said a prayer of thanksgiving for the place where I live, knowing my wife was waiting inside, knowing I was blessed and always have been!