9/11
23 years. What can I say that hasn’t already been said?
So I’ll just link to two previous posts…
It’s all coming back to me now
So you should know that I am not a “shopper”. I live in shopping mall heaven — I’m ten minutes from the Broadway Mall, 15 from Roosevelt Field and 25 from Whitman Shoppes — but I seldom go to the mall. I prefer to shop on line. And when I do venture into a store, I usually know what I want and buy it as quickly as possible. I’m not one to browse through stores just to see what’s for sale. There’s a local chain, Baked By Melissa , that specializes in mini cupcakes. They’re primarily in Manhattan. A few years ago Becca introduced me to their product - delicate little cakes, exquisitely decorated, very tasty. I walk past their shop on 7th Avenue whenever we go to the theater. Well, last week I remembered that they used to have a second shop on 7th, right next to the original shop, but selling gluten-free versions of all their cupcakes. The gluten-free shop closed, but the company continues to make a gluten-free version of their product. So I thought that gluten-free cupcakes wou
I kept my post simple this morning, featuring monuments that included beams from the WTC. I feel much the same way - what can I say that hasn't already been said? I remember riding on the subway with my husband and son, and a cousin's husband in August of 2002, traveling through or near the still closed Cortlandt St. station, and emerging into a changed world. I can still bring myself right back into that memory of visiting Ground Zero.
ReplyDeleteI'm with 7th graders at the moment. (When the morning announcements referenced 9/11, they made sure to clarify 2001. This all happened 11 years before they were born.) Sobering to think it was that long ago.
ReplyDeleteDrew said the same thing, all the students he sees now weren’t even born on 9/11, yer to me it feels like yesterday
DeleteI was at work that morning when one of my caseworkers came running down the hall, tears streaming down her face, to tell me what happened. She had been listening to the radio. It's a moment indelibly embedded in my memory.
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