Thursday, June 26

This morning, we had our daily morning prayer in Central Park. We then hopped on the subway and headed to the Lower East Side/Bowery area to visit the Tenement Museum. This partially restored tenement building housed thousands of immigrants during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. We were able to see how these people lived and worked in their apartments.




The rain came while we were at the Tenement Museum, so we met Lyndon Harris at his church, St. John’s, and ate our brown bag lunches. Lyndon shared his stories and memories of 9/11 and the months following. He also told us about the Garden of Forgiveness. This group establishes gardens around the world that foster the nine stages of forgiveness. He shared pictures and stories from around the globe and talked about the future of the organization. Since we didn’t have an opportunity to work in the garden, Lyndon and his co-worker Carly gave us bookmarks with seeds in them. This way we can go home and start our own mini Garden of Forgiveness.

After spending time with Lyndon, we headed back to the Y. Some of us rested, swam and relaxed. Another group headed to the Met and another to MOMA.

For dinner, we headed to Shake Shack in Madison Square Park and had hamburgers, hotdogs and shakes. Afterwards we hopped on the subway and headed to South Street Seaport. We hung out and shopped around Pier 17. The NYC Waterfalls installation was turned on today, and we had a great view of the waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge.



We were pretty tired, so we headed back to the Y for Compline and some sleep.