This image is partially inspired by a fond childhood memory of St. Matthew School in northeast Philly, the neighborhood in which I grew up. Whenever a police car, firetruck, or ambulance would go by on Cottman Avenue, its siren loudly wailing, the teacher would pause her lesson and lead us in a prayer- for both the emergency responders and the people in need of their help. Those holy present moments of prayer which I loved as a kid are now a practice which I have adopted as an adult living on a busy street in Camden where the sounds of sirens are all too familiar.
