The First Stop… 6 February 2023
Who… I don’t remember. Only his voice.
I have Face Blindness.
I went into the 18th (?) Precint that afternoon and talked to an officer. The 9/11 images hit me hard. I had not been prepared to see them.
I’ve been wanting to go to a precint for 20 years to talk to someone who had been there on 9/11.
He asked me if I was there. I told him, I was raped on 9/11. That’s where I was, and I became a shut-in for 20 years thereafter.
I told him about the Healing Garden and the psyche work I do. He told me about the homeless problem. I told him how much I wanted to talk to the homeless. He told me what he knew about the homeless.
He said, “so many of them are mentally ill.”
I think… I want to be a street therapist. Just talk to them…
I reflected on how much joy I was getting from this conversation, and an old dream woke inside of me… I wanted to be a news reporter for like… 5 years of my life. Until my family stamped out that dream, and I wanted to be an actress. They stamped out that dream. So a musician? They stamped out that dream too.
So I became a wife just like they wanted. Now that I am free and healed… My old dreams are coming back.
How much I want to be that woman.
I thought of how much I wanted to walk all over Manhattan and talk to everyone.
How much I love connecting people with my stories.
Hi! I’m Anna Imagination.
I am building a Healing Garden and Trauma Respite for New York.
This is part of it.
The officer finished our talk by saying, go to the 1st Precint. Go there…
And suddenly… I saw the path before me. I’ll let New York Lead me.
I’m just the Wandering Rover of New York.
I am from everywhere and Nowhere.
Wouldn’t you know… That is what I’ve always wanted to be.