Thousands of People and Thousands of Artworks In New York City Part 3
On Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, it was more than two years since we came to New York City. NYC was an epic place for the deadly virus and took many lives. Now we came to enjoy the place and people once again. The COVID-19 virus is scaled down a great deal, and many more people have been vaccinated to prevent the virus. However, some people who took the vaccine still get sick from the virus, but the sickness is not severe or deadly. Some people were still wearing masks but many more did not.
We still see the mixture of people that makes us feel comfortable to be in NYC. It is a melting pot, and in many ways a center for the diverse population of the world.
We walked toward to the Chinatown area where are the rows of Chinese restaurants on every street. Our stomachs were growling in anticipation of the taste of fried dumplings and sour soup.
Our destination was not a big restaurant. We headed to the small lane, called Mosco Street. In the middle of the lane is a very small takeout restaurant that specializes in fried dumplings and soup. We bought fried dumpling and soup to go.
🙂THE DUMPLING LADY OF CHINATOWN 🙂
At the bottom of the lane, just a few minutes’ walk from the dumpling restaurant, is a small park, called Columbus Park Playground. There is a basketball court next to the children’s playground. There are some benches for parents or anyone to sit and rest, enjoying watching the little children play on the swings and slide. We found a bench to sit, watching little ones having a good time playing while we consumed our delicious fried dumplings and soup.
We went to buy a pack of Melon cakes for John. I chose a pack black bean cakes and we also bought some other items to take home.
We walked back down to Mosco Street heading home, taking Path train to Newark, New Jersey. As we looked up, we saw the New World Trade Center standing tall in the sky.
We wanted to celebrate our trip to NYC, but we could not stop thinking about September 11, for the anniversary for twentieth year was coming soon. We still remember the event that caused heart ache for so many people. But following that dreadful day, an important thing happened in USA and around the world. It became a unifying factor for solidarity among most of humanity. Today however, it seems the opposite is taking place. Especially in US politics, such as January 6 event in 2021 with the mobs ordered by Mr. Trump to attack the US Capital.
Please make every effort to encourage unity, compassion and understanding between people the world over. With this we can find peace and happiness together as one human family.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Monday, September 19, 2022
Remembering 9/11 and One World Trade Center, New York City, New York
Memorial to World Trade Center
John and I had planned for a while to take a trip to Swansea, Wales, UK to visit John’s older sister Phyllis. Finally, we bought two tickets from Air India. We were scheduled to leave Newark, NJ on September 10, 2001. We always plan to stay more than three weeks’ vacation as we wanted to spend as much time with Phyllis as we can, since Mom, John’s mother passed away in summer 1994 and Phyllis was alone by herself. So, we planned to stay with her until October 9, 2001, which was the day we returned home to Newark. ————————————
“Do you know the World Trade Center collapsed?”
The taxi man asked us while he took our luggage out from the trunk.
“No! It is impossible. We just came from World Trade Center.”
We responded.
“Two planes hit the twin towers.”
The taxi man gave us more information.
After greeting Phyllis, we ran in the living room and turned on the TV and found out that there were no Twin Towers anymore. We learned that the terrorists hijacked the airplanes and used planes as weapons to destroy the buildings and people on the plane and thousand more in the World Trade Center Towers. We also learned about the disasters in Washington DC and Pennsylvania. ——————————————————
After we came back home to Newark, NJ from Swansea, the first thing I wanted was to visit the remains of WTC to join others who felt the sadness from the loss of so many people. We also went to Jersey City by the peer at the bank of Hudson River opposite WTC to look at the empty spots where Twin Towers would have been. Our hearts ached and we were confused as to the cause of this destruction. We liked to bring friends and family to view the NY skyline and watch the 4th of July fireworks by the Hudson River with the WTC in the background.
I began doing the artwork relating to WTC, a few ceramic sculptures as a Memorial for the Twin Towers. I kept my artwork to myself. I showed them to only few people who were close to me. I did not want to provoke negative feelings or bad memories in others. I felt such sadness about this horrible event. It is the same sadness for any horrible event such as Holocausts, the nuclear bombs in Japan, the killing field in Cambodia, in Rwanda and other places in the world. We humans never learn to be civilized. We seem so quickly to forget the horrible events that took place and then bad things happen again. We kill each other directly and indirectly. The indirect actions of corruption, greed and power hunger cause direct action to surface. Innocent people will always end up suffering the effects. Hopefully we will be wiser and able to learn from past events and improve our human race to be able to live with each other in peaceful coexistence.
Twenty years have passed since the 9/11 events and I would like to share my artwork with others and express some of my thought on my Peace Project website.
Many thanks to my daughter and son-in-law who subscribe the website for me and my husband who has the patients to correct my writing.
The followings are the pictures of my sculptures I produced on March 16, 2002 I made especially as a memorial to the Twin Towers and the people who lost in these events:
The description of WTC memorial:
Two towers stand erect, supported by two long panels. Outside of two panels are animal designs in one side and the garden and plants on the other side. The long path between the two towers inside panels is blank spaces which can be the area that the loved ones or any ones express their thought in writing. And the corridor between two panels can be the place for children to play hide and seek.
I made this small-scale Twin Towers sculpture as a replica for loved ones or any ones who comes to mourn, let go of sadness and to remember the loss. I hope we can realize that we should enjoy and appreciate one and other while we are still alive.
Memorial to World Trade Center
Time to mourn
Time to cry
Wipe the sadness away
Time to remember
Time to live
Get up and go
Work awaits
I will go on
Remembering the past
With heavy heart
When you are apart
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 11, 2011, 5:57 AM
Lost Hope
Little girl feels
Little girl hurts
To feel the pain so young
Her innocent lost
Even though it hasn’t begun
We all lost our innocent and freedom
Innocent of hoping working hard
We will be better some day
But freedom lost
Sudden someone comes
And take the hope away
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 04, 2011, 9:45 PM
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a total of 343 firefighters died with thousands of innocent civilians in the World Trade Center and other locations. Their lives were taken away by fanatic, brainwashed believers of a distorted version of their own religion. If the hijackers believe in humankind and nature, they would not kill themselves and others. So, one should always learn to questions what one is told to believe.
I salute all the brave firefighters and others who risk their lives saving others. May peace be with the brave firefighters, all their families and the others.
Respectfully yours,
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, August 8, 2003
I wish it were!
Something that have wings
To save him
I love butterfly
Deep in my heart
I sent the butterfly
To catch him
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 15,2002
Order from the Top
Sharp bayonet piercing on my back
As I am dying
Why do you kill me?
I don’t know you!
And you didn’t know me!
Oh! I forget
It’s an order from the top
If you didn’t kill me
I probably will kill you
Because I got order from the top also
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts Sunday, 8.28.2011, 6:27 PM
Mother liberty holds the twin towers
Close to her heart
Protecting World Trade Center
With her believe
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Mother Liberty, do we still breathe free in this land of liberty?
Breathe free with fear for this event has come
Don’t shed your tears for this human race
The lesson learns might make us grow
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 10:55 PM
What is the same and different between these two men?
One, they are both human beings
Two, they are both dead
Three, they are well known
Four, they both had a goal to be achieved
Five, one is nonviolent and other is violent
Six, one is spinning cotton on a wheel and other has a weapon
Seven, one is productive and other is destructive
Which do we prefer after we analyzing the lives of these two men?
History will record these two men’s actions when they were alive
I hope we can learn from these two people without vengeance and hatred
Let us teach our younger generations all over the world
To understand that we are all the same
If we harm others then we will harm ourselves in the end
John Watts, my husband enjoyed being on the plane, sipping a drink after a nice Indian curry meal on the flight. John was watching a movie while I tried to find the best position to sleep in until we landed at Heathrow Airport, UK. It took about six hours from Newark Airport, USA to Heathrow Airport, UK. From Heathrow Airport we took the bus to Swansea where we had to sit for five hours. At about 3:00 PM we reached the bus stop in Swansea. A Taxi man drove us to Phyllis’ house, John’s sister for duration of about fifteen minutes.
“Do you know the World Trade Center collapsed?”
The taxi man asked us while he took our luggage out from the trunk.
“No! It is impossible. We just came from World Trade Center.”
We responded.
“Two planes hit the twin towers.”
The taxi man gave us more information.
After greeting Phyllis, we ran in the living room and turned on the TV and found out that there were no Twin Towers any more. We learned that the terrorists hijacked the airplanes and used planes as weapons to destroy the buildings and people on the plane and thousand more in the World Trade Center Towers. We also learned about the disasters in Washington DC and Pennsylvania.
We spent most of our trip, almost a month, watching the TV to find out about the news of WTC disaster. We were gathering newspapers for more information also. We made a lot of phone calls to our daughter who was home in Newark, NJ, USA. ———
I began doing the artwork relating to WTC, a few ceramic sculptures as a Memorial for the Twin Towers. I kept my artwork to myself. I showed them to only few people who were close to me. I did not want to provoke negative feelings or bad memories in others. I felt such sadness about this horrible event. It is the same sadness for any horrible event such as Holocausts, the nuclear bombs in Japan, the killing field in Cambodia, in Rwanda and other places in the world. We humans never learn to be civilized. We seem so quickly to forget the horrible events that took place and then bad things happen again. We kill each other directly and indirectly. The indirect actions of corruption, greed and power hunger cause direct action to surface. Innocent people will always end up suffering the effects. Hopefully we will be wiser and able to learn from past events and improve our human race to be able to live with each other in peaceful coexistence.
The followings are the pictures of my sculptures I produced on March 16, 2002 I made especially as a memorial to the Twin Towers and the people who lost in these events. I also produced artwork that related to the event of World Trade Center disaster.
The description of WTC memorial:
Two towers stand erect, supported by two long panels. Outside of two panels are animal designs in one side and the garden and plants on the other side. The long path between the two towers inside panels is blank spaces which can be the area that the loved ones or any ones express their thought in writing. And the corridor between two panels can be the place for children to play hide and seek.
I made this small-scale Twin Towers sculpture as a replica for loved ones or any ones who comes to mourn, let go of sadness and to remember the loss. I hope we can realize that we should enjoy and appreciate one and other while we are still alive.
Memorial to World Trade Center
Time to mourn
Time to cry
Wipe the sadness away
Time to remember
Time to live
Get up and go
Work awaits
I will go on
Remembering the past
With heavy heart
When you are apart
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 11, 2011, 5:57 AM
Lost Hope
Little girl feels
Little girl hurts
To feel the pain so young
Her innocent lost
Even though it hasn’t begun
We all lost our innocent and freedom
Innocent of hoping working hard
We will be better some day
But freedom lost
Sudden someone comes
And take the hope away
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 4, 2011, 9:45 PM
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a total of 343 firefighters died with thousands of innocent civilians in the World Trade Center and other locations. Their lives were taken away by fanatic, brainwashed believers of a distorted version of their own religion. If the hijackers believe in humankind and nature, they would not kill themselves and others. So, one should always learn to questions what one is told to believe.
I salute all the brave firefighters and others who risk their lives saving others. May peace be with the brave firefighters, all their families and the others.
As we mourn the World Trade Center disaster – 9/11 this year, we are also mourning for more than 190,000 people so far, who passed away from COVID – 19. We could not prevent the World Trade Center disaster – 9/11 because it came with a surprise attack from the terrorists within a short period of time. But COVID – 19 started at the end of last year (2019). Mr. Trump had knowledge about the deadly virus and knew that it was an air born disease and that it was not only dangerous to older people, but also to younger people. Mr. Trump keeps lying to American citizens that everything is going to be O.K. He never organizes or tries to warn or help people prepare, protecting them from getting the deadly virus. Instead he tells people to go to work and pushes children to go to schools that do not have the time or finances to prepare for the safety of the children. Mr. Bob Woodward’s Book, called, “RAGE”, and his tape recordings of Mr. Trump’s voice prove to everyone that he had knowledge about the deadly virus- COVID – 19 since the beginning of this year (2020). He keeps on lying every time he talks to the press or goes to his rallies. He never puts a mask on and tells his followers that it is OK not to wear masks or to social distance.
The following are news reports from different media talking about Mr. Bob Woodward’s book, RAGE and tape recordings of Mr. Trump’s voice.
The New York Times: 5 Takeaways From ‘Rage,’ Bob Woodward’s New Book About Trump
NBC News: Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on His ‘Made In America’ Plans, Streamed live on Sep 9, 2020, NBC Nightly News Broadcast (Full) – September 10th, 2020
PBS NewsHour full episode, Sept. 9 &10, 2020
MSNBC: Watch The 11th Hour With Brian Williams Highlights: September 9, Sep 10, 2020, Trump’s Own Actions Have Brought Him Down In Polls, Says Writer | Morning Joe, Sep 8, 2020, Watch Rachel Maddow Highlights: September 9, Sep 10, 2020, Watch All In With Chris Hayes Highlights: September 9, 2020, and Trump Invokes FDR And Compares Himself To Churchill At Packed Rally | The 11th Hour, Sep 11, 2020, Trump Launches ‘An October Surprise Against Himself’ | Deadline, Sep 10, 2020
The Lincoln Project,( LPTV): The Breakdown — September 10, 2020, and The Lincoln Project Town Hall—How Trump is Radicalizing America
Crooked Media: Trump Tapes Reveal He Lied About Coronavirus Pandemic | Pod Save America, Sep 10, 2020
CNN News: See Biden’s reaction to Trump revealing secret weapons system, Sep 10, 2020, Anthony Scaramucci-This should scare every one of your viewers, Sep 11, 2020, and Reporter to-Trump: Why did you lie to the American people? Sep 10, 2020
Late Night with Seth Meyers: Trump and the GOP Rocked by Bombshell Woodward Tapes: A Closer Look, Sep 10, 2020
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Trump and Fox News Double Down On COVID Coverup Defense | The Daily Social Distancing Show, Sep 10, 2020
Glenn Kirschner: Woodward’s Tapes, Trump’s Covid Admissions & a Homicide Prosecutor’s Take on Criminal Liability, Sep 10, 2020
Roylab Stats: [LIVE] Coronavirus Pandemic: Real Time Counter, World Map, News
Google News: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) information
The New York Times: 5 Takeaways From ‘Rage,’ Bob Woodward’s New Book About Trump
Mr. Woodward reveals that President Trump sought to play down the severity of the coronavirus and repeatedly denigrated the U.S. military.
President Trump described his chemistry with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to the journalist Bob Woodward, saying: “You meet a woman. In one second, you know whether or not it’s going to happen.” Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times
By Aishvarya Kavi Sept. 9, 2020
“This is deadly stuff,” President Trump said of the coronavirus in a Feb. 7 interview with the journalist Bob Woodward for his upcoming book, “Rage.” But it was a vastly different story than he was telling the public at the time. Mr. Trump would later admit to Mr. Woodward that publicly, he “wanted to always” play down the severity of the virus.
Mr. Woodward conducted 18 interviews with the president for the book, which goes on sale next week. Mr. Trump also granted Mr. Woodward access to top officials inside the White House, revealing the inner workings of the president and his administration.
Here are five takeaways.
Mr. Trump minimized the risks of the coronavirus to the American public early in the year.
Despite knowing that the virus was “deadly” and highly contagious, he often publicly said the opposite, insisting that the virus would go away quickly.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Woodward on March 19. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
And while he was saying publicly that children were “almost immune” to the virus, he told Mr. Woodward in March: “Just today and yesterday, some startling facts came out. It’s not just old, older. Young people too — plenty of young people.”
In April, as he began to urge the country to reopen, Mr. Trump told Mr. Woodward of the virus, “It’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it.”
Two of the president’s top officials thought he was “dangerous” and considered speaking out publicly.
Gen. Jim Mattis, Mr. Trump’s former defense secretary, is quoted describing Mr. Trump as “dangerous” and “unfit” for the presidency in a conversation with Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence at the time. Mr. Coats himself was haunted by the president’s Twitter feed and believed that Mr. Trump’s gentle approach to Russia reflected something more sinister, perhaps that Moscow had “something” on the president.
“Maybe at some point we’re going to have to stand up and speak out,” Mr. Mattis told Mr. Coats in May 2019, according to the book. “There may be a time when we have to take collective action.”
Ultimately neither official spoke out.
Mr. Trump repeatedly denigrated the U.S. military and his top generals.
“They care more about their alliances than they do about trade deals,” the president said.
And in a discussion with Mr. Woodward, Mr. Trump called the U.S. military “suckers” for paying extensive costs to protect South Korea. Mr. Woodward wrote that he was stunned when the president said of South Korea, “We’re defending you, we’re allowing you to exist.”
Mr. Woodward also reports that Mr. Trump chewed out Mr. Coats after a briefing with reporters about the threat that Russia presented to the nation’s elections systems. Mr. Coats had gone further than he and the president had discussed beforehand.
When asked about the pain “Black people feel in this country,” Mr. Trump was unable to express empathy.
Mr. Woodward pointed out that both he and Mr. Trump were “white, privileged” and asked if Mr. Trump was working to “understand the anger and the pain, particularly, Black people feel in this country.”
Mr. Trump replied, “No,” and added: “You really drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you? Just listen to you. Wow. No, I don’t feel that at all.”
Mr. Woodward writes that he tried to coax the president into speaking about his understanding of race. But Mr. Trump would only say over and over that the economy had been positive for Black people before the coronavirus led to an economic crisis.
Mr. Woodward gained insight into Mr. Trump’s relationships with the leaders of North Korea and Russia.
Mr. Trump provided Mr. Woodward with the details of letters between himself and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in which the two men fawn over each other. Mr. Kim wrote in one letter that their relationship was like a “fantasy film.”
In describing his chemistry with Mr. Kim, Mr. Trump said: “You meet a woman. In one second, you know whether or not it’s going to happen.”
Mr. Trump also complained about the various investigations into ties between his campaign and Russia, saying that they were affecting his abilities as president and his relationship with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
“Putin said to me in a meeting, he said, it’s a shame, because I know it’s very hard for you to make a deal with us. I said, you’re right,” Mr. Trump said.
Bob Woodward on Trump
For more information please visit the following link:
RAGE (Bob Woodward book) (Simon & Schuster)
Bob Woodward at Trump Tower in New York City, in 2017.Credit…Andrew Harnik/Associated Press
See Biden’s reaction to Trump revealing secret weapons system
In a interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said President Trump has “no conception” of national security after Trump appeared to reveal the existence of a classified nuclear weapons system in interviews with Bob Woodward. #CNN#News
Joe Biden Delivers Remarks On His ‘Made In America’ Plans | NBC News
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Thursday on the NewsHour, wildfires continue to devastate parts of California, Oregon and Washington state, with no end in sight. Plus: Congressional gridlock over pandemic relief legislation, more reports of foreign interference in U.S. elections, reevaluating Trump’s response to the pandemic, how coronavirus is reshaping addiction medicine and Jane Fonda on climate activism and her new book. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
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Trump’s Own Actions Have Brought Him Down In Polls, Says Writer | Morning Joe | MSNBC
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Trump Launches ‘An October Surprise Against Himself’ | Deadline | MSNBC
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Trump Tapes Reveal He Lied About Coronavirus Pandemic | Pod Save America
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Anthony Scaramucci: This should scare every one of your viewers
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Reporter to Trump: Why did you lie to the American people?
During a press briefing, President Donald Trump slammed a reporter for asking why he lied to the American people after journalist Bob Woodward released audio of Trump from February where he said the coronavirus was deadly. #CNN#News
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On 9/11, as many tried to escape the
wreckage and carnage in lower Manhattan, first responders rushed in. We
remember that horrible day by taking a look at the sacrifice they made,
courtesy of the documentary “Rescue, Recovery & Healing: The 9/11 Memorial Glade
Dedication.” The piece was produced by New York’s WNET public media station.
Wednesday on the NewsHour, more than
20 states appear to have reached a comprehensive settlement with Purdue Pharma,
manufacturer of OxyContin. Plus: Results of the N.C. special congressional election,
a conversation with Mark Sanford, the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, how the
art world is using blockchain, reports of a U.S. mole in the Kremlin and
remembering September 11th, 18 years later.
On this edition for Sunday,
September 8, after President Trump’s tweet, what’s next for peace talks between
the U.S. and Afghanistan? Also, the latest on the aftermath of Hurricane
Dorian, and a look at how the norms of masculinity are negatively impacting men
and boys. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
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“[Soil] represents the difference between life and lifelessness in the
earth system, and it can also help us combat climate change — if we can only
stop treating it like dirt,” she says.
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Time_lapse of cell division from
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image. A brief note about the image capture techniques: Hi I can say that it was
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design” It is not available by any manufacturer. I built it. I used LEDs
and relevant optics to light the egg. They too were custom designed by me. The
whole microscope sits on anti-vibration table. I have to say that it doesn’t
matter too much what microscope people use to perform this. There are countless
other variables involved in performing this tricky shot, such as for example:
the ambient temperature during shooting; the time at which the eggs were
collected; the handling skills of the operator; the type of water used; lenses;
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John and I had planed for a while to take a trip to Swansea, UK to visit John’s older sister Phyllis. Finally, we bought two tickets from Air India. We were scheduled to leave Newark, NJ on September 10, 2001. We always plan to stay more than three weeks vacation as we wanted to spend as much time with Phyllis as we can, since Mom, John’s mother passed away in summer 1994 and Phyllis was alone by herself. So we planed to stay with her until October 9, 2001, which was the day we returned home to Newark.
On September 10, 2001 I got up early to prepare for the trip with John. We took the Path from Penn station,Newark to World Trade Center, NYC at about 2:00 PM. After we got out from Path train we took the escalator and went up to the first floor Of WTC’s building passing a bank and shopping area to get to the NY subway that took us to Kennedy Airport. Every thing was nice and smooth. The weather was very good. People enjoyed walking, traveling to somewhere or shopping much like any other time that John and I came to NYC. Our plane took off at night. John enjoyed being on the plane, sipping a drink after a nice Indian curry meal on the flight. John was watching a movie while I tried to find the best position to sleep in until we landed at Heathrow Airport. It took about six hours. From Heathrow Airport we took the bus to Swansea where we had to sit for five hours. At about 3:00 PM we reached the bus stop in Swansea. A Taxi man drove us to Phyllis’ house for duration of about fifteen minutes.
“Do you know the World Trade Center collapsed?”
The taxi man asked us while he took our luggage out from the trunk.
“No! It is impossible. We just came from World Trade Center.”
We responded.
“Two planes hit the twin towers.”
The taxi man gave us more information.
After greeting Phyllis, we ran in the living room and turned on the TV and found out that there were no Twin Towers any more. We learned that the terrorists hijacked the airplanes and used planes as weapons to destroy the buildings and people on the plane and thousand more in the World Trade Center Towers. We also learned about the disasters in Washington DC and Pennsylvania.
We spent most of our trip, almost a month, watching the TV to find out about the news of WTC disaster. We were gathering news papers for more information also. We made a lot of phone calls to our daughter who was home in Newark.
John and I have many fond memories of WTC. We had to pass by WTC every time we took trips to NYC, especially when we went to Chinatown to buy Chinese food and grocery.
In 1975 I just started dating John. John helped me to frame my paintings for the exhibition in East River Saving Bank on the first floor of the WTC. My parents and family who came from Thailand to visit us in the US liked taking trips to World Trade Center. My parents were lucky enough to go up to the top of WTC to view NYC from the high distance.
After we came back home to Newark, NJ from Swansea, the first thing I wanted was to visit the remains of WTC to join others who felt the sadness from the loss of so many people. We also went to Jersey City by the peer at the bank of Hudson River opposite WTC to look at the empty spots where Twin Towers would have been. Our hearts ached and we were confused as to the cause of this destruction. We liked to bring friends and family to view the NY skyline and watch the 4th of July fire works by the Hudson River with the WTC in the background.
I began doing the artwork relating to WTC, a few ceramic sculptures as a Memorial for the Twin Towers. I kept my artwork to myself. I showed them to only few people who were close to me. I did not want to provoke negative feelings or bad memories in others. I felt such sadness about this horrible event. It is the same sadness for any horrible event such as Holocausts, the nuclear bombs in Japan, the killing field in Cambodia, in Rwanda and other places in the world. We humans never learn to be civilized. We seem so quickly to forget the horrible events that took place and then bad things happen again. We kill each other directly and indirectly. The indirect actions of corruption, greed and power hunger cause direct action to surface. Innocent people will always end up suffering the effects. Hopefully we will be wiser and able to learn from past events and improve our human race to be able to live with each other in peaceful coexistence.
Ten years have past since the 9/11 events and I would like to share my artwork with others and express some of my thought on my Peace Project website.
Many thanks to my daughter and son-in-law who subscribe the website for me and my husband who has the patients to correct my writing.
The followings are the pictures of my sculptures I produced on March 16, 2002 I made especially as a memorial to the Twin Towers and the people who lost in these events:
The description of WTC memorial:
Two towers stand erect, supported by two long panels. Outside of two panels are animal designs in one side and the garden and plants on the other side. The long path between the two towers inside panels is blank spaces which can be the area that the loved ones or any ones express their thought in writing. And the corridor between two panels can be the place for children to play hide and seek.
I made this small scale Twin Towers sculpture as a replica for loved ones or any ones who comes to mourn, let go of sadness and to remember the loss. I hope we can realize that we should enjoy and appreciate one and other while we are still alive.
Memorial to World Trade Center
Time to mourn
Time to cry
Wipe the sadness away
Time to remember
Time to live
Get up and go
Work awaits
I will go on
Remembering the past
With heavy heart
When you are apart
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 11, 2011, 5:57 AM
Lost Hope
Little girl feels
Little girl hurts
To feel the pain so young
Her innocent lost
Even though it hasn’t begun
We all lost our innocent and freedom
Innocent of hoping working hard
We will be better some day
But freedom lost
Sudden someone comes
And take the hope away
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 04, 2011, 9:45 PM
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a total of 343 firefighters died with thousand of innocent civilians in the World Trade Center and other locations. Their lives were taken away by fanatic, brainwashed believers of a distorted version of their own religion. If the hijackers believe in humankind and nature they would not kill themselves and others. So, one should always learn to questions what one is told to believe.
I salute all the brave firefighters and others who risk their lives saving others. May peace be with the brave firefighters, all their families and the others.
Respectfully yours,
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, August 8, 2003
I wish it were!
Something that have wings
To save him
I love butterfly
Deep in my heart
I sent the butterfly
To catch him
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts,Sunday, September 15,2002
Order from the Top
Sharp bayonet piercing on my back
As I am dying
Why do you kill me?
I don’t know you!
And you didn’t know me!
Oh! I forget
It’s an order from the top
If you didn’t kill me
I probably will kill you
Because I got order from the top also
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts Sunday, 8.28.2011, 6:27 PM
Mother liberty holds the twin towers
Close to her heart
Protecting World Trade Center
With her believe
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Mother Liberty, do we still breathe free in this land of liberty?
Breathe free with fear for this event has come
Don’t shed your tears for this human race
The lesson learns might make us grow
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 10:55 PM
What is the same and different between these two men?
One, they are both human beings
Two, they are both dead
Three, they are well known
Four, they both had a goal to be achieved
Five, one is nonviolent and other is violent
Six, one is spinning cotton on a wheel and other has a weapon
Seven, one is productive and other is destructive
Which do we prefer after we analyzing the lives of these two men?
History will record these two men’s actions when they were alive
I hope we can learn from these two people without vengeance and hatred
Let us teach our younger generations all over the world
To understand that we are all the same
If we harm others then we will harm ourselves in the end
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts Saturday, August 27, 2011, 3:40 PM
2 Responses to Remembering 9/11
Chelsea M says:
September 19, 2011 at 10:47 am
I have to be honest I have not looked up images form the events of 911 in many years. It was in that time that I moved to NYC and I came to my new home while it was in a state of broken fear.
You have created some very powerful images, in particular I’m moved by the image of the flowers in the dust cloud and the collage work with the people’s silhouettes infront of the wreckage. Your poems are so simple but speak in such short lines of deep feeling. Its the way my mind tries to come to terms with the events, in little lines and snapshots of images. Thank you for sharing your work, on such a hard and painful subject. Perhaps through art we can come to terns and work through some of the emotions left to us from that day.
Hi Chelsea, Thank you so much for your comments. It was painful having to remember the horrible day. I hope we can learn from the event and make sure that it will not happen again. But looking at the situation, a lot of human behavior and the turmoil all over the world right now, it will probably take quite a long while for the human race to reach maturity and act as a civilized society as a whole. Take care, Ing
Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, it was more than two years since we came to New York City. NYC was an epic place for the deadly virus and took many lives. Now we came to enjoy the place and people once again. The COVID-19 virus is scaled down a great deal, and many more people have been vaccinated to prevent the virus. However, some people who took the vaccine still get sick from the virus, but the sickness is not severe or deadly. Some people were still wearing masks but many more did not.
We still see the mixture of people that makes us feel comfortable to be in NYC. It is a melting pot, and in many ways a center for the diverse population of the world. 
We walked toward to the Chinatown area where are the rows of Chinese restaurants on every street. Our stomachs were growling in anticipation of the taste of fried dumplings and sour soup. 
Our destination was not a big restaurant. We headed to the small lane, called Mosco Street. In the middle of the lane is a very small takeout restaurant that specializes in fried dumplings and soup. We bought fried dumpling and soup to go.
🙂THE DUMPLING LADY OF CHINATOWN 🙂
At the bottom of the lane, just a few minutes’ walk from the dumpling restaurant, is a small park, called Columbus Park Playground. There is a basketball court next to the children’s playground. There are some benches for parents or anyone to sit and rest, enjoying watching the little children play on the swings and slide. We found a bench to sit, watching little ones having a good time playing while we consumed our delicious fried dumplings and soup.
We went to buy a pack of Melon cakes for John. I chose a pack black bean cakes and we also bought some other items to take home. 
We walked back down to Mosco Street heading home, taking Path train to Newark, New Jersey. As we looked up, we saw the New World Trade Center standing tall in the sky. 
