Ms. CRANKY knows she’s supposed
to be cranky and complain and be wacky and off-balance, which she is sometimes
good at doing but on the anniversary of September 11, 2001, it’s hard to be
one’s old self. So, forgive Ms. Cranky if
she, with so many other Americans, remembers.
The day was incredibly
beautiful, ‘incredibly’ --- balmy, not too hot, not too cool, just wonderfully
dry and lightly breezy. The skies were
bright blue with, as Ms. Cranky, remembers, not a cloud, or, if so but, a few
wisps. Cranky was, thankfully, working uptown
for a few weeks. Usually she worked
downtown at the World Financial Center --- right across from the World Trade
Center.
Cranky had voted early
before heading for work so she wouldn’t have to worry about getting to the
polls on time after work. It was a Mayoral
election and people really came out.
When Cranky got to the subway station that day, the endless politicians
with leaflets accosted her once again and she just laughed and said --- “No
more, it’s over, my vote is in --- goodbye.”
Little did she know then that she’d have to vote all over again.
Since the horror that happened
shortly after she arrived at her desk at her temp job uptown, Ms. Cranky gets a
little superstitious when a day is so beautiful, she thinks a lot of people do
--- like, we remember and think ----“ Don’t enjoy it too much, it could turn to
great tragedy in seconds.”
But, Cranky thinks
maybe she should try and get over that superstition. Maybe it’s finally time, 12 years later to look
at a beautiful day as a beautiful day --- a symbol of hope and newness instead
of violence, death and tragedy. Maybe
she should think lovingly again of a balmy day, a pure blue sky, sun and lightness
in the air as possibility, newness, life, oh, life --- the most fabulous of gifts.
Thanks
for stopping by. Take care of your good
selves. Ms. Cranky
Ms. CRANKY SENDS HER CONDOLENCES TO ALL
STILL HURTING SO FROM THE LOSS OF THAT DAY AND WISHES SHE COULD HUG EACH AND
EVERY ONE OF YOU IN PERSON, WHICH SHE NOW DOES OVER THE AIR.
September
10, 2013
Happy
Birthday, Trevor.
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