it is september 11. we all have our memories of what has become "the day" in american history. where were we? (i was at work, watching a big screen tv in a corporate conference room. i was sat around a table with my whole department, and its head prayed for peace. i thought the sky was falling.) we called our families and told them we loved them. we listened to the silence of the skies. for we had seen, on cnn--live and repeated, over and over--the death of 2,800 people. could we believe it? of course not.
i'm sitting at my friend kevin's house tonight, with dogs sleeping all around me and gillian welch singing "time: the revelator". i am reading nora gallagher's things seen and unseen , and just happened upon the following passage:
"After his conversion, St. Francis saw 'everything upside down,' said Frank Rogers, Jr., a theologian at the School of Theology at Claremont. 'He was not enamored of the strength and security of well-guarded towers, walled city states and impressive cathedrals. Rather he saw everything hanging over nothing. And he was astonished, but grateful, that everything did not fall down'".
amen.
Posted by bananie at September 12, 2004 12:01 AMamen and amen.