I wrote this right after that first rain fall of 9/11! It was always hot and muggy up until that Sunday night in September 2001. I still have not forgotten it and continually write about those three weeks and my experience of 9/11!
In Japanese culture, the making of one thousand paper cranes grants a wish. With making over one thousand cranes to create the American Flag, I wish that the souls of the victims of September 11, 2001 find peace.
Our students studied the effects 9/11 had and continues to have humans, communities, and nations. They researched the peaceful gestures of Gander, Newfoundland to resilience of the rescue dogs. Students researched los
Jumpers…
Lives
Documented with paper…paper trails
shred
shredded
Anonymous messages suggesting human gifts of wishes…
shared…
pointing to all our lives…
paused
…a moment…
As a serious amateur photographer I photographed the WTC from its construction and thereafter. I always thought it was aptly named as the center of the world.
On Sept 11 2001 when I watched the towers fall and for days afterwards I was haunted by the falling towers images that I watched on TV. For days after I could not sleep well. I cried each day.
