I was getting ready to head to the recording studio in Brooklyn to work on my second CD, Passion, Poison, & Politik. It was a beautiful Tuesday morning, sunny with blue skies – a gem of a late summer day in Manhattan. So, I thought it was strange that I should hear thunder. Of course, soon thereafter I learned that the sound I had heard was that of a jet barreling into a World Trade Center tower. Earlier in 2001 I worked across the street from the Twin Towers. The Tuesday before September 11, I was seated between them enjoying a program of dance, featuring one of my favorite troupes, Ron Brown’s Evidence. Thank heavens I was a few miles away when the planes crashed into the buildings. I was shocked and saddened. Manhattan was sealed off from the rest of the world. No one knew what might follow. The sound of flights patrolling the skies at night was not comforting – it reminded me of how terror had struck. Fortunately, New Yorkers seem to be at their best when faced with adversity. Eventually I returned to the studio and began recording a song which bears a lyric that was written in the wake of the attack – Angels Watch Over. Fours years later, suffering continues and a hole remains in the ground where the Twin Towers stood. Let us hope that those now suffering in the wake of hurricane Katrina do not have to wait four years to see their lives rebuilt.