We're still here!
This night – seeing the Tower of Lights from my Brooklyn cement backyard – quite something. Still something that seeing the pictures of what happened back then and reading the stories of mourning then and now: it’s still heartbreaking; it still makes you want to cry.
FC’s post is most eloquent, and I can’t add more to that.
A link, though: NBC’s Brian Williams’ touching essay on what this anniversary meant to him.
The late Jerry Orbach originated the character that sings the song “Try to Remember” from the musical The Fantasticks, now being revived on Broadway. Try to remember that time before September.
Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow….Try to remember when life was so tender
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow….
A picture I took at the Brooklyn Promenade in 2004.
Friday night – went to see Mets v. Dodgers at Shea. Umm, no, not a great games (Mets lost). Mets won Saturday, but lost today, so I believe the magic number to clinch for the playoffs remain at 5.
Watched most of the House season premiere. Hmm. House is insane, we know that, right?
Star Trek celebrating its 40th Anniversary.
The Brooklyn Book Festival is on 9/16/06. How exciting!
And then, there’s tomorrow. Another somber anniversary. If I didn’t know it has been, I wouldn’t believe it’s been five years.
