Church bells tolled throughout the morning.
For America this is a day of remembrance and solemn ceremony, a day swimming with emotion. Today these emotions clash, tumble and spill together with heightened (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘9/11’
today
Posted: September 11, 2013 in Observations and CommentaryTags: 9/11, appreciation, harmony, love, peace
today
Posted: September 11, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: 9/11, appreciation, harmony, love, peace
Church bells tolled throughout the morning.
For America this is a day of remembrance and solemn ceremony, a day swimming with emotion. Today these emotions clash, tumble and spill together with heightened potency and poignancy. Sadness mixed with anger mixed with grief mixed with frustration mixed with loss mixed with melancholy mixed with pain mixed with love.
Today is also much more. Today is today.
Today is a day to hold (more…)
Trask Avenue 
no matter how hard you try
Posted: September 11, 2016 in Observations and CommentaryTags: 9/11, life, memory, New York, NYC
Fall 1979
No matter how hard you try, you will never forget that day. You will never forget how the news emerged one piece at a time, slowly at first, and then with a rapidity which was impossible to digest. You will never forget the faces and reactions of the people you were with, disbelief which turned to gasps then to tears then to sobs. You will never forget that the world you occupied, the one a few miles north of the horror, stood absolutely still. You will never forget how (more…)