I know it is September 11, but I’ll leave the remembering to others. I don’t want to remember. Maybe you do. Maybe you want to reflect on those who lost their lives that day, nine long years ago. I was angry. I was incredibly angry. But mostly I was sad because I knew it would turn us into bad people and make us do bad things. We’re trying to turn things around now, but look at the news. Look at what we’re discussing. Burning Korans and banning mosques, that’s what we’re discussing.
Not long before 9/11, I had one of those moments. I was walking around Manhattan, taking in the diversity and the peaceful interaction of the people. And I thought to myself how great New York was, and how much of a model it was for the country and the world of the future. That’s what I mourned on the night of 9/11 as I tried to go to sleep. New York is still great, but the country has never been further away from their model.
So, I’m not going to spend my day thinking back. There’s is nothing back there for me.
