Today is the 12th anniversary of 9-11. I will always remember the details of that day. They are burned on my mind. What I was doing. Where I was. Who I was with. Who I wasn't with.
Lucky for me, my schedule worked so that I had today off and home with my kids. I stood in my kitchen this afternoon cleaning the sink, prepping for a meal and listening to BBC Newshour on NPR. They had an interview with Jake Heggie, a composer who wrote a suite of music based on the lives of some of the people lost on 9-11. One of the songs was words from a book that was being written by a woman who died on the plane in Shanksville, PA. At the time of her death, she was pregnant with her first child. For whatever reason, learning that she was pregnant made me completely break down and sob -- right there, as I was cleaning the sink. Even as I write this, tears are streaming down my face. I thought of my two beautiful children and the love I have for them. I just feel such sorrow for her and her family and the love that might have been. And as if on cue, the next song was about moving forward with life.
The segment on the music ended the BBC Newshour program which here, it is followed by All Things Considered. Audie Cornish interviewed a group of post 9/11 veterans, who were commemorating the day by climbing Half Dome in the Yosemite Valley. All of them had some form of injury, be it physical or emotional (PTSD). Regardless of their challenges, they were literally about 8500 ft up and hanging on about 800 ft of rope on the shear face during the time of the interview. How inspiring.
What occured to me after listening to this: Make every day count.
Make. Every. Day. Count.
Every. Single. Day.
Lucky for me, my schedule worked so that I had today off and home with my kids. I stood in my kitchen this afternoon cleaning the sink, prepping for a meal and listening to BBC Newshour on NPR. They had an interview with Jake Heggie, a composer who wrote a suite of music based on the lives of some of the people lost on 9-11. One of the songs was words from a book that was being written by a woman who died on the plane in Shanksville, PA. At the time of her death, she was pregnant with her first child. For whatever reason, learning that she was pregnant made me completely break down and sob -- right there, as I was cleaning the sink. Even as I write this, tears are streaming down my face. I thought of my two beautiful children and the love I have for them. I just feel such sorrow for her and her family and the love that might have been. And as if on cue, the next song was about moving forward with life.
The segment on the music ended the BBC Newshour program which here, it is followed by All Things Considered. Audie Cornish interviewed a group of post 9/11 veterans, who were commemorating the day by climbing Half Dome in the Yosemite Valley. All of them had some form of injury, be it physical or emotional (PTSD). Regardless of their challenges, they were literally about 8500 ft up and hanging on about 800 ft of rope on the shear face during the time of the interview. How inspiring.
What occured to me after listening to this: Make every day count.
Make. Every. Day. Count.
Every. Single. Day.
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