At last
Comments (6) It’s happened.
I’ve become so accustomed to traveling to Chicago each day that I have lost appreciation for the beauty of the city.
I noticed this last week when I left my office during the day to deliver a proposal to a client. I wandered through the Federal Plaza (you know, the one with this big orange thing?) on my way. Federal Plaza is a large open space in the Loop, next to a small (one-story) post office and the large 45-story Mies van der Rohe Federal Building. This spatial relationship creates an incredibly powerful void in the cityscape there – when you are walking in the plaza and look up, you have this wonderful feeling of being surrounded by tall, beautiful buildings.
It’s sad that I work one block away from the plaza and rarely see it, and experience that excitement of being in such a “big” city! I rarely leave a two-block radius around my office, except to walk to the train station.
But why I am talking about this on a Sunday? Because Steven and I are going to the city today to do something fun. We will leisurely ride the train down to the city; I will have time to meander without worrying about getting to work on time. We will enjoy of the beauty of being downtown.
And… we are finally finally seeing Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination at the Museum of Science and Industry. I am so excited about seeing the Star Wars models, I couldn’t slept through the night. It was such a hassle to buy these tickets, I hope it turns out to be as much fun as I imagine it will (regardless of the annoying crowds that are always in museums, dawdling at each exhibit).
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