The Sundance channel is running a marvelous documentary about the Frenchman, Philippe Petit, who, in 1974, walked across a wire between the World Trade Towers, in NYC. What an engaging meditation on so many things, beauty, dreams, risk, mystery…the Towers… Petit was immediately arrested after making 8 crossings on his walk, and people demanded to know WHY anyone (he) would do such a thing, he said, “there is no why”. He couldn’t understand such a reaction to what he described simply as a “beautiful and mysterious thing”.

Here’s the original news report on the event: Click here