Thank you everyone from everywhere for all of the wisdom flowing through this listserve. I am truly touched by the outpouring from around the world . . . and I have learned much about the world's perspective of the united States (both positive and else).
Tuesday, I drove my 12 year old son to school as usual . . . listening to his radio station so we could hear the daily "gender wars" spoof . . . Tyler got out of the car at 7:52 AM CST . . . As I was leaving the parking lot I (As I always do) switched to my favorite station just in time to hear that there had been an explosion at the World Trade Center . . . 10 minutes later, just before I got home, I heard about the 2nd plane hitting the World Trade Center - I knew this was an attack . . . As I walked back in the door and told Deb to flip on the TV, News of the crash at the Pentagon was just beginning to appear. Deb and I spent most of Tuesday watching the news unfold. We were both numb. Today, was different . . . wondering as I awakened what would hit the news today . . . more attacks? I was very somber today . . . spirits low . . . as I listened to all of the news agencies spinning stories of conspiracy and hatred . . . and hearing things as preposterous as the need to "round up" all the "Islams" just as the Japenese were rounded up after Pearl Harbor. I was befuddled . . . Then I visited my office and encountered Eric who was a West Point graduate . . . a tough army guy . . . who knows that I, too, had been in the military for years . . . Eric and I have always talked about the day's events because we "speak the same language" often. Eric said: "COOKIES" I said: "HUH????" He said: "COOKIES!! You know . . . Those delicious ones they bake at Christie Cookies? And DOUGHNUTS just after the "hot light has come on at Krispie kreme . . . We need to gather about 2 million people and line up on the border of Afganistan . . . each person with a box of cookies (or doughnuts) with all of our children in tow . . . and offer them cookies and sit and talk with them and let our children play with their children . . . get to KNOW them and allow them to get to KNOW us . . . and thus will be the end of this silly terrorism. And thus it would all be behind us . . . Call me crazy . . . but I kinda like what Eric had to say :-) Love to all, b Simply living the FourFold Way in Open Space . . . Barry Owen The Owen Group 5200 Maryland Way, Suite 101 Brentwood, TN 37027 615-568-2123 - Direct 615-263-4849 - Office/Voice Mail 615-263-4848 - Fax Real estate consulting web-site: http://homselrs.com/ Open Space Technology - Real Estate http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/9215 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html