September 11, 2001 — Twenty-Five Years Later

Into the day. Into the future. Into everything we cannot possibly know… We walked into the future.
The weather is one of the things I remember most.
It was perfect.
That feels almost inappropriate to say 25 years later, but the day was gorgeous. September in New York can give you a few days when the humidity disappears and the whole city seems to come into focus. September 11, 2001 was one of those days. The sky was an enormous, uninterrupted blue. The sunlight was brilliant. Everything h