Posted by finelinebob on September 9, 2006, at 19:24:23
In reply to Re: Today was so hard..., posted by llrrrpp on September 9, 2006, at 11:38:00
Thanks, llrrrpy, hugs very much appreciated (((ll))) but I'll have to turn down the limo. I didn't start this fight, but I **am** going to finish it. I know my own Beast, and my fight's not with it. I think it might even be jealous, since the Intruder is taking up so much of my attention ... the enemy of my enemy, for now.
I posted over on Self-Esteem about my lesson, so I won't repeat myself here. My teacher saw something at Inwood Hill Park so I took Leyna with me to investigate ... there's a memorial in the park with one flagpole for everyone who died that day. American flags, two different types: (1) one had the names of the firefighters, police officers, EMTs and other service workers who died on it, the other (2) had the names of everyone who died that day. If you want a visual image, think of Arlington Cemetary and replace the stones with flags. There were two sculptures as well. Sunday, I'm going to grab some daylight and nighttime photos of the memorial (they have floodlights to light it up at night), and I'll post a URL when I get them online. But it was good to see so many people paying their respects. One of the nastiest attacks of the Intruder is alienation -- feeling that no one around you can understand what you went through -- but being there with Leyna =^) and everyone else reminded me again about how we went through it as One City. It didn't matter if you were a native or carpetbagger or immigrant, what language you spoke, the color of your skin, whatever -- we were all New Yorkers, and that was all that mattered. Today I learned that it still is. When it comes to alienation, I think the Intruder just got declawed.
But Leyna and I had a wonderful few hours in the park doing other things too, and she made a number of new friends (including 4 NYPD officers at the memorial ... cops are such softies for shepherds, hehe).
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