A Tomato Grows at Ground Zero
The harshest conditions are no match for life itself
2 min readMar 20, 2024
“Tomatoes don’t grow here,” said Mark, a personal-injury lawyer with whom I used to share a terrace garden in Lower Manhattan. Mark doesn’t lose arguments. When the neighboring Twin Towers collapsed he defied evacuation orders, shoveling debris by hand until our terrace was clear. That experience had caused him to adopt a…
