sometime lofty towers
wow, i don't think i know what to type today. so on the two-year anniversary of september 11th, these are the best words i can come up with. i just wanted to acknowledge the date, respectfully remember those terrible events, and think about those who lost so much and who were lost on that terrible day:
"when sometime lofty towers i see down razed
and brass eternal slave to mortal rage...
this thought is as a death,
which cannot choose
but weep to have that which it fears to live".
--william shakespeare
these words are immortalized in shakespeare's sonnet 64. i also know that there is a photographic memorial book of the world trade center entitled "sometime lofty towers", by robert hutchinson. appropriately, it seeks to ease the pain of ruin with the balm of remembered beauty.
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...did you know that i saw the twin towers exactly one month before they were destroyed?
i saw them from the air on august 11, 2001 on my return flight home from hartford, connecticut, after attending a friend's wedding. we flew over new york city. despite my flying fear, i am very glad i had a chance to see the towers from the plane one last time before they were destroyed.
now all i have is pictures from the summer i lived in new york, and also postcards from my collection, which are surely collector's items now.
