Another Tuesday

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push my legs into the solid earth, as if to keep him
from falling.bbbthe more afraid I am that I will fall.



by Judy Kamilhor
September 14, 2003
For Philippe Petit* on the second anniversary of September 11, 2001

For those who don't know who Philippe Petit is, he was the acrobat/daredevil/visionary who set up a tightrope between the Twin Towers a few years after it was built, and walked back and forth eight times, without a harness or anything else keeping him attached. The Ken Burns series on New York City included the footage, and was shown on the second anniversary of 9/11.

It was while watching this documentary, that I finally felt all my feelings about the attacks. The first two years I turned my feelings into political and cultural cartoons that sprang out of me on an almost daily basis starting a few days after the attacks.


© Judy Kamilhor 2007