We hear that 9/11 changed everything. And we know that’s not the whole truth. 9/11 changed people through their emotional response, and the opportunistic pounced on the opportunity to change the rest of the ‘everything’.
9/11/01 changed how we feel about our world, yet I feel more fear and less hope today than i did then. 9/11/01 was merely the catalyst.
I’m not a poet, a preacher, a politician, or a philosopher. I have no wise words, on this anniversary, no perspective to offer. Only quotes about change.
Anniversaries are days we tend to look back. But today, while I reflect, I am also committing to looking forward. To change. 9/11/07 could change ‘everything’, too. All it wants is a catalyst.
Nothing endures but change.~Heraclitus
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~Norman Vincent Peale
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
~Charles Dickens
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.~Abraham Lincoln
It is great
To do that thing that ends all other deeds,
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
~William Shakespeare
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…there is a hill from which one could just pick out the twin tours.
I thought about my class this morning…and about the class I was holding when the planes hit.
I thought also about the fact that none of my students in this morning’s class were students on that day.
Life goes on.
Anniversaries are days we tend to look back. But today, while I reflect, I am also committing to looking forward. To change. 9/11/07 could change ‘everything’, too. All it wants is a catalyst.
amen. . .