The Rising Freedom Towers

This photo struck me as capturing an important mission for Trinity Spire.  While our 250th anniversary as a county will be about celebrating our history, it will also be about thinking anew about who we are and who we want to be for the next 250 years.  While the tower in the background is all about rising from the ashes, the child in the foreground is all about beginning anew with laughter, joy, optimism, and an unbridled sense of what is possible.  We must celebrate our history, but bear its burdens lightly as we move towards the future, lest they weigh us down, like the beautiful child giggling joyfully at the future in a place filled with the memories of the past.

This couple of recent immigrants watches the Freedom Towers rise out of the ashes of a damaged monument recovered from the Trade Center Plaza now displayed in nearby Battery Park City, as if the Towers themselves are being reborn from a damaged shell.

Love this shot of Freedom and Liberty - two bulwarks of the American story.

Here, maritime life of commerce and joy goes on in the shadow of renewal.

I believe that the right architectural lessons from the Freedom Towers and what they represent for the 250th anniversary of the US and for Trinity Spire are two lessons:

1) We must provide space for REFLECTION on our history because our common experience gives us common purpose

2) Yet we must approach the future unburdened by the past, with a sense of RENEWAL, optimism, and the belief in our young country that anything is possible.