A building I pass all the time on the junket between school and the library at Washington Square Park had a crowd assembled in front of it today. Turns out the NYC Landmarks Preservation Center was unveiling a plaque commemo- rating that Edie Windsor, whose case won the right for LGBT people to marry in this land, had lived there. I lingered a while and heard Robbie Kaplan, the lead lawyer on Windsor's SCOTUS case and a close friend. She observed that this was the first Passover in years that her family had spent without Edie, who passed away last Fall. She reflected that it had long seemed unfair to her that Moses was not permitted to set foot in the promised land. Now she thinks that if all you've aimed to achieve has been accomplished before you die, you weren't aiming high enough.Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Landmark
A building I pass all the time on the junket between school and the library at Washington Square Park had a crowd assembled in front of it today. Turns out the NYC Landmarks Preservation Center was unveiling a plaque commemo- rating that Edie Windsor, whose case won the right for LGBT people to marry in this land, had lived there. I lingered a while and heard Robbie Kaplan, the lead lawyer on Windsor's SCOTUS case and a close friend. She observed that this was the first Passover in years that her family had spent without Edie, who passed away last Fall. She reflected that it had long seemed unfair to her that Moses was not permitted to set foot in the promised land. Now she thinks that if all you've aimed to achieve has been accomplished before you die, you weren't aiming high enough.