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   Wednesday, September 11, 2002

"I'M DOING WHAT I DO TO SEE ME THROUGH"

My friend Darrell and I have been tossing some international-politics-related e-mails back and forth this week -- no surprise there. I hope he won't mind if I respond to the newest one sometime later, but it's late and I'm too sleepy to properly argue the intriguing points he raises (as usual). He did, however, neatly capture my own mood regarding this now-mournful date and I feel compelled to share his words:

"During one of my insomniac mental workouts, I was reminded how the unexpected "gift" of 9/11 had been an immediate appreciation for the friends and family I have grown to love. And perhaps that is how we best mark this awful anniversary: by letting them know they are loved and valued and integral to our own existence."

Amen to that, my friend. While I understand the powerful rage, fear, doubt and grief that grips us all at this point in time, love and joy and faith are still the only things that will save us. After a bit of rest, I will go out into my city on September 11th and I will work, think, talk, laugh, hope and love. To quote a fond Pet Shop Boys song:

Is it enough
to live in hope
that one day we'll be free
without this fear?
I'm going out,
and carrying on as normal.

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