Clarity Begins at Home
Writing by treason on Tuesday, 31 of January , 2006 at 8:29 am
Sometimes a person gets tired of eating his or her own cooking and needs a change. After I visited my mother on Sunday, I stopped at a little dive that serves New York style pizzas and subs. I sat at a corner table while I waited for the to-go order and looked at the pictures on the wall. There was a large framed photo of two towers on fire.
Years ago, when T and I were in New York, we almost didn’t make it down to the World Trade Center. There was so much to see and do, but we made it to Wall Street and surrounding areas on a quiet Sunday. We have photos of us in front of the towers, looking fat from a week of eating at Carnegie Deli almost exclusively.
There are so many films that have the obligatory shots of the New York skyline, the towers always looming over the rest of Lower Manhattan. I see them and it’s that Tuesday morning all over again.
It’s like whenever I see Dianne Feinstein. It’s November 1978 again, Milk and Moscone are dead, and Di is suddenly mayor. The woman has had a long relationship with her fellow Californians and her bank account is huge. Now Cindy Sheehan has announced that Di needs to go. She plans to run against her for the Senate.
No offense, but may I ask to see Mrs. Sheehan’s credentials? She lost her son, she’s angry, and she wants something good to come from her loss. I’m reminded of Debra Burlingame, who lost her brother, Charles - a pilot - on September 11. She, too, is angry. But her emotions have taken her on a much different path.
“Anger can be very, very productive, as long as it’s focused and you don’t lose your mind. After the London bombings, someone asked me, ‘Have we become complacent? Do you miss 9/11, when people had more unity?’ And I say, ‘No, no, no. What I miss is the anger. And the clarity. That’s what I miss.’ “
Me, too, Deb.
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