Interview #1 – The First Stop

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.

He noticed me looking.

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.

Author: Anna Imagination

Anna Imagination is Lady Wisdom. She is Something Different. Every Person is a Story that is meant to be Discovered through Invested Exploration. This is the Greatest act of Love one can give another. One does not "Summarize" Anna Imagination. Her Story is to be Experienced by only those who are willing to enter her Pages, which can be done at https://annaimagination.substack.com or at https://www.faeearth.com/the-library-of-alexandria