Snow Melt

I Visited New York 1992

The July 23, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  is
Tell us about the farthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

I visited New York in 1992. I was among the 30,000 Baha'is who celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of Baha'u'llah's Covenant.1 I spent spent four days in New York, November 23-26, celebrating with other Baha'is.

I saw New York at night, but I did not visit as a tourist because my days revolved around the events at Jacob Javits Center. I went to New York for only one reason and that was to commemorate the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and socialize with other Baha'is. I do not think I missed anything by not seeing the sights of New York and I believe I gained a lot from the experience.

I found ten videos on YouTube called "Music from 2nd Baha'i World Congress in NYC".2 These videos contain music as well as speeches from the Second Baha'i World Congress in 1992. I cannot embed all ten of them in this entry and even if I could I would not embed all of them because of the depth of the information contained. These are videos that a person needs to watch more then once to understand the way a Baha'i feel about his or her faith and the world. I chose the second video because it shows Baha'is from different parts of the world telling about their faith from individual perspectives.

Tears descend,
as I recall my experience
in 1992 in New York.

Each video I watch
carries my back to the joy
and love I felt those four days
in New York.

Footnotes
1  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_World_Congress
2  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL180011B0979F048E