within a few moments, my friend graham called me up and told me to get over here, i'll never forget what he said, "you gotta get over here man, america's going down!" i poured my coffee in a travel mug and ran down the alley a block to his house......i got there just as one of the planes slammed into the towers......it was unbelievable to stare at and watch.......it felt like we were trapped in some horrible movie......we sat there drinking our coffee and just transfixed by what was going on.......
and then there was the eerie week afterward, where no planes were allowed to fly for six or seven days until they sort of figured out what was going on.......that's also something i'll never forget, the silence, the strange calm in the days after........the skies were spooky clear, no jets or planes at all, well, except for the random military plane flying over.........everything seemed super sharp, the crisp fall air, the endless blue skies and the numb, shocked silence that our world was attacked in ways we never thought possible......
civility was gone, and i've realized since then that take away our electricity, our grocery stores and gasoline, and north america will fall back a couple of centuries in the space of a month.......we have such a tenuous hold on this perceived thing we call "reality."
anyway, for some reason, this date was on my mind more than it has been since it happened......that was a strange year for me, 2001, and now as we pass another year marking this horrific day, i am aware that as bad as it gets, things really aren't that bad......it's simply a matter of perspective......
hence the image of the falling man........google him, and you'll see and learn some things about him.....
what was going through his mind in those last seconds?
we'll never know, only speculate........
take care of your loved ones, be with the ones you love, and be thankful i guess is all i can say on a day like today........
cb
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