My heart is sad for the tsunami victims. I cried tonight with you. You just experienced a calamity that, by sheer numbers of the deceased, multiplied 9/11 by a factor of nothing less than 25. But the pain of losing someone you love individually is no more or less real to you than it was to New York City... and the healing process no more or less necessary.

And I look back one more time, saddened by the fact that I'm leaving the only place in New York that I've called home since I lived here.

I've gone to disappear... to reappear one more time for the NH Theatre Awards... and then to completely vanish.

...till 9/11/06.

Here's to the new year... completely different from any of the past 26 I've known.