We're Still Building and Burning Down Love
I hopped on the bus this morning, and looked back out the window and realized how gray and dreary a day it was. This is the first time in 6 years that September 11 was a rainy day. I remember how beautiful the sky was on September 11, 2001. I was late for work and left my apartment hearing that a plane might have crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings in NYC. The sky was azure with no clouds in the sky, and they had been in the subsequent years. I always feel melancholy on this remembrance day. I wasn't immediately impacted; I was spared losing someone I love. Though, I have many friends and acquaintances who did lose best friends, co-workers, lovers, sons... For example, one of my favorite people in the world lost good friends from her TJX Companies days on Boston based flights. I can only be empathic to their losses. In Leon Uris' book Redemption , his main character Rory Larkin says, after losing his dear mates at the snafu in Gallipoli , "All men have a m...