I just got back from helping my Mom in Rhode Island. We skipped out on the events of the day, given that we've been listening to or watching documentaries of various quality both the last weekend I visited and last night.
I've been trying to help her more at the apartments. She's been going it alone since my father died of cancer nearly four years ago. Unlike today's rightfully mourned victims, there are very rarely rallying parades for our category of loss, unless we're herded to raise money for too late curehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifs.
I lost no friends or family in New York, and I don't begrudge anyone's mourning or reflection if they did. Death is horrible whether we see it coming or not. It's just a little harder for our family to join the human race these days. I hope those of you who mourned did so with ease and without worry.
I keep going back to this post I wrote just before the 2004 elections. I link it now because I really don't know what else to add to that right now.
Maybe this. It's seven years since that entry, and as long as we as a people embrace "change" out of desperation and revert to angry, hateful tirades against our own people out of wild blame when we're not blessed with miracle cures we may or may not deserve, then we may not have changed or learned much after a decade. I hope that isn't true.
I morn and remember quietly.
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