People my age remember the hours and days after Sept 11. I was in clinic seeing patients.
In the days after, I went through the motions of normal life.
But all I could think of was the horror of that day. I am not sure how long it lasted.
That is where I am now. I am a parent and grandparent.
Thanks to the new subscribers. I will write again about critical appraisal. Sometime.
JMM
We're all trying to make sense of a senseless world and it's exhausting. Take care of yourself and your loved ones.
John — There is currently so much hatred, confusion, greed, and ignorance in our world that it seems obvious where we are headed. One of these maniacs will soon push the button and unleash the final chapter on this failed human experiment. One need only plot the direction of recent political, ecological, and ethical events to foretell the direction we are headed. Now is the time to hold our loved ones close and savor this beautiful life and the limited moments we have left. No one is riding to save us at the last moment. And there will be no safe place to avoid our fate. Humanity is wonderful and horrible. We are our own creators and destroyers. Sadly, our dark, ignoble traits have doomed us. Momentum is inexorably pushing us to the abyss. Now, our most precious possession is the scant time we have left. Don’t squander it. Laugh, love, sing, pray, marvel, and cry with the intensity as if it is the final time. It is a sure symptom of our insanity that some commenters on this board believe there is justification for the violence and depravity of recent days. Or, that there is a right and wrong political side to the horrors. It just proves we are truly lost. Yet I am deeply grateful for the wonders of this planet, it’s natural splendor, and this corporeal life I have been privileged to experience, despite it’s pain, suffering, and inhumanity. These are what I will hold dear as our time runs out.