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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2001-09-12 09:43 am
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eerily reassuring

There's a photo over on the Yahoo news page, taken a few hours ago. The Manhattan skyline, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground, and the shining towers behind. The caption talks about the smoke hanging low, but the effect is of light clouds. I know that there's something large missing--but I can't tell where it was. What I see is a beautiful, bright city, one of the great works of human civilization, and it looks strong and whole, like a jewel.

And I know we will survive, and go on.

[identity profile] roadnotes.livejournal.com 2001-09-12 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. It's hard to think clearly in some ways now, but we will go on, we will rebuild, and we will never be the same.

I love you.
rosefox: Me staring off into the sunset. (wistful)

[personal profile] rosefox 2001-09-12 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't even know you had an LJ....

Thank you for saying this. It makes it a little bit more bearable not to be there.

--Rose (of alt.poly)