Tennessee, 9/11/07. What's the latest?
News from my front....
*Just finished the Harry Potter book and I think the best part is when Mrs. Weasley finishes off a DeathEater for having wacked her daughter Ginny during the battle of Hogwarts. The saddest part is what happens to the house gobblin (I cried shamefully). The funniest is when Potter is trying to slip into the school unnoticed and the whole Dumbledore army appears.
* I'm days away from an adventure to Greece where I will explore the reality of reattributing a family apartment in Thessaloniki.
* Just started Nineteen minutes by Jodi Picoult. The first 19 minutes of reading were great. Now I need to finish the book.
Now for the truly embarrassing, and facing, moment: For the first time in six years (why six?), I'm just recognizing September 11 for what it is, a day on the calendar. In stead of waking up to that painful rememberance, it is now a day like any other, and it should be.
The events that took place on September 11, 2001 are unique and should be remembered in full for what happened, not as the day they took place on. Too often I see people refer only to the World Trade Center, when in fact lives were also lost in Washington, DC and over a field in Pennsylvania. The fact that war in Iraq is nearly a weekly reminder of similar ilke, may be why those events are now taking their rightful place in the annals of the war against terrorism. Much blood and sweat has flowed under the bridge in six years. It's truly a sad condition, this world we find ourselves in.
And together, we can do something to change the world....
