six years
I wanted to schedule this audioconference for work as soon after Labor Day as possible, and after some back and forth, it became clear that September 11th was going to be the only day that fit everyone’s schedule. One of our guests was a state senator from NY, so I asked her scheduler was she sure that the 11th was ok, and she said yes. So we held it today. And I’m not going to any memorial services or doing anything out of the ordinary today.
But I was glad that it was gray and overcast today, and not another impossibly perfect blue sky.
If you feel a call to gather and talk about your memories and feelings, we’ve opened up Wednesday Whining a little early this week.
(Yes, I did hit my 3rd blogaversary last month.)
September 16th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I was raised a Quaker, and one of the tenets was that anniversaries/special days were sort of a distraction from remembering, acting properly every day. This didn’t stop us from militating that our parents would give us Christmas and birthday presents! But the date of Sept 11 hasn’t really resonated for me. It is the impossibly nice bright blue day which reminds me of looking out my car window from the Roosevelt Bridge and seeing smoke coming up from the Pentagon and figuring that something was badly wrong and turning on the radio, and downhill from there.