9/11
23 years. What can I say that hasn’t already been said?
So I’ll just link to two previous posts…
Music Monday
Another “your choice” week. How about new music from icons of the 60’s and 70’s? Let’s start with Jimmy Buffett’s posthumous hit, “Bubbles Up”. The Rolling Stones released a new song in 2023, it’s called “Angry”. The surviving Beatles (with some help from AI) released “Now and Then”. And then Billy Joel … The AI effects in the video blew me away… A note about the AI effects … the Beatles used it to isolate John’s vocals on an old demo. Billy Joel had a young man play the piano then superimposed his own face onto the image of the younger man.
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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