I am fairly certain the last thing the internet needs is another person's thoughts on 9/11. And yet, I feel the need to share.
I remember waking up to Peter Mansbridge on the radio, thinking I must still be dreaming because the news just did not make sense. Planes crashing into buildings, planes falling from the sky. I was working as a post partum doula at the time, and Trudie and I watched the towers fall over and over and over again that day as we looked after the twins. So for me, part of 9/11 is about babies and mothers.
When I turned on my computer this morning I realized it is once again 9/11. But this time I have my own baby and ... I don't know, it just seems that much more tragic and senseless and heartbreaking this year. And I know that in the grand scheme of things this was not the biggest or most horrific thing that people have done to one another, not even in my life time. But it was so sudden, and graphic, and reported on. I was at a website today that listed all the people who died. It is a very long list. I wish the world was a better place. Not just for Molly, but for all of us.
2 comments:
Lexi was one year and two days old on that tragic day 2001.
I echo your sentiments on the world being a better place.
Peace
Ali your sharing your feelings on
9/11 impressed me deeply and Michelles comments added to my feelings that people like yourselves by being aware and caring will shift your children's generation from "ME" to "US" which hopefully will create a better world for them and all mankind. Hat's off to you young parents who have a social conscience and to your children who will inherit the world.
Love, G.G.
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