Hi All,
Forgive me, I don't post often, nor do I have the time to read posts often,
but I do so when I can. And I thought that now that I'm back in the office
on Long Island, after driving back from Chicago on Friday, I'd check in with
how everyone is doing since Tuesday.
The feelings are all so similar. I don't have the least bit of desire to be
in my office conducting business as usual. I don't want to fly; I don't want
to take the subway; I don't want to do much else other than grieve. Just
talking to a friend at lunch, I mentioned that the only thing that brings me
out of it is music, which I didn't have with me last week when I was in
Chicago. But after 10 minutes of Joni or Ravel or Stan Getz, I come back to
the realization that there are so many dead and so many more who have been
traumatized that I'm having a hard time even trying to escape this madness.
I know of only one who died; his wife is still hoping for a miracle, but I
can't anymore. He was on the 92nd floor of the first building.
My son's 20 year old friend was at a business across the street from the WTC
when the first plane hit. He ran in to get his coworker and their tools out,
and when they arrived back at their van, looking up, they witnessed the
second plane crash. They got out of town as quickly as they could through
very heavy car and pedestrian traffic. He's traumatized to say the least.
And I just found out this morning that a friend's daughter was late to work
on the 8th floor of the second building on Tuesday. She arrived to see the
first plane crash and immediately turned around and left. She hasn't been
able to leave her mom's house for her own apartment and now sleeps with the
light on. She doesn't want to talk to anyone about it.
I don't know; I'm feeling like I'm gonna have to talk to somebody. Soon.
I've spent a lot of time in various churches in Chicago and yesterday at
home, but I'm not feeling much better. They say time heals, but our future
is so uncertain that thinking about all the possibilities makes me even more
uneasy.
I hope the attachment I sent is readable. Someone from work sent it to me
and I wanted to share it. It really rings true. However trite this all
sounds, I'm praying for all of us. And even though I didn't vote for Bush,
I'm on his side too. God Bless.
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