Anniversary

[poliphilo]

I've just looked at the date.

Oh my- 9/11!

Why wasn't I apprised of this? Why weren't the papers full of commemorative stuff?

I guess because we've moved on. We have Iraq to worry about. Katrina has changed the paradigm just as the attack on the twin towers once did.

This is a fast-moving century.

We're packing more history into the available time than we ever did before.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I rarely watch television because our reception is awful and I won't pay for cable. But Friday night I was enjoying room service food and knitting and cable TV at a hotel the night before a Saturday conference. HBO ran a documentary.

I still wasn't prepared for footage of that second plane tearing into the tower. I'm not surprised that I burst into tears along in my hotel room. But I was a little shaken to look down at my knitting some time later and see a group of eight stitches much smaller than their neighbors -- visible evidence of how little I've healed from that cataclysmic event.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I understand how terrible that wound must be.