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minutes ago the first plane struck the first tower of the world trade center
i watched the ceremony at ground zero as i have every year for the last 7 years
remembered again, what i have never really forgotten
how this morning in september changed us all

today
i i do what i have done in most of these past 7 years
take an inventory
of how differerent i am
since that terrible day
when i watched the towers burn from my roof
in downtown manhattan
i can still hear the screams from miles away
as the first tower impossibly fell like a silver deck of cards
i can still remember the shot of adrenalin
as people panicked not knowing whether to buy water or hide in their homes
i feel as if it was yesterday
the sense that everything i had every been
had ever known
was changing in minutes
that i would never be
the woman who woke up the morning of september 11th 2001 again

i believe today
i am kinder
deeper
more appreciative of anything good or caring around me

i read newspapers, watch the news
two things id rarely done before 911

i tell people i love
that i love them

i don't put things off for a rainy day

i think of all the countries that have been victimized by terrorism
that i felt care for but no deep resounding understanding
i now i feel closer to their pain
no longer innocent

i think of all the readers
faceless people from around the world
who reached out to me thru this web site in those dark days of september
and sent love

i think of the heroes
the amazing, self-less, proud, simple, normal, every day
people who went down to ground zero
to feed firefighters
to dig out body parts
to give massages

i remember cooking hamburgers on a small back yard grill
for hundreds of emergency workers
how their eyes were glazed over in shock, sorrow and determination
and all they could say to us, all we could say to them
was thank you

and oh
just now
the bell struck
as the second plane hit the second tower

my heart
like yours stops for a moment

i stop
listen
feel
remember
and hope
that we all can do everything in our power to honor
these lost innocent lives
and to make sure
that peace and love and kindness is sent into the terrible void
of their passing

have a magical day

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