Lafayette Square

September 28, 2019 / 11:22 / 42.885702°N 78.873808°W / Lafayette Square / Lafayette Square / Seeking the heart of a city may be a false quest: is not each human heart, each structure in the built environment, and every aspect of the natural world revealed or hidden throughout the peace and chaos of urban life irreducible constituents of the heart of a city, pulsating in balance the life and death of everything, unable to be localized to any one place? / How foolish the human spirit is to seek something which cannot be found / How foolish I was to sit at the monument, beneath the gaze of the Union and her soldiers and sailors, and seek understanding in the interlocutions, the laughter, the sparrows, the transit, the flags, and the play of children //