October 2, 2022 - “The First Sunset of Fall”

Last Thursday I was walking up Ninth Avenue at about six forty-five in the evening and dusk was everywhere. All around me people would stop what they were doing, stand near the curb with their phones raised before them, and snap photographs of the way the last remnants of the day’s sun was falling across the buildings in the distance. Everything was the softest combination of orange and red, a strong contrast against the early night’s sky: the first sunset of fall.