Daze Like These

The last 24-hours in NYC have been ... something.

As we move towards the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the city is struggling with other recent losses, losses that sadden and remind us that the only permanent thing in life is ... impermanence.

Last weeks storms, the offshoot of Hurricaine Ida, hit NYC hard, particularly Queens. President Biden came to the city to survey the damage and talk about how, with climate change, we'll only see more of thing kind of thing.

Over in Brooklyn, there was the death of the brilliant actor Michael K. Williams, Omar from The Wire and a searing, amazing talent. His death from an apparent overdose is a huge loss for the culture and the city. 

And there was another, quieter loss, a fellow name Phil Schaap, who was a professor of Jazz at Columbia and other city institutions as well as a radio-host at WKCR. He was the Jazz Bard of NYC, it's keeper of the flame, and his passing is, to be cliche, the end of an era. 

RIP to all.