Category: Culture
Tuesday Morning
Written by a longtime friend and minister, Rev. Mary Kay Totty, the morning of the planes on Sept 11, 2001
Tuesday morning
Wake to meet the day
Ordinary, same old routine
Fetch the paper
Feed the dog
Shower, shave, primp
Break fast fast —
On the run
Off to the scheduled
Week,school, meet …
LIFE SHATTERS
THE SKY FALLS IN
No portents, no omens
No warning
Four planes deliberately crash
Taking down landmark buildings
Destroying thousands upon thousands of lives
The world prays
Devastation haunts us
We ache with the pain
Heroes work hard
Saving many, sacrificing self
The nation grieves,
The nation grieves
We will remember
And never forget…
But the sun rises
And it is again Tuesday morning
With a paper to read
A dog to feed
And breakfast to prepare
Then to the schedules
Work, school, meetings
Life continues
But the heart remembers…
The heart remembers.
Mary Kay Totty, September 2001
Understanding the Middle East
I remember taking a political science class back in college, the middle 1980’s, and hearing someone ask the professor to explain the political relationship between the US and Israel and Egypt and Iran. The answer the professor gave wove a web much like the graphic in this article by Max Fisher in the Washington Post. Click here to take a look and read the article. Middle East relationships are complex and it is important for Westerners, specifically Americans, to have a working knowledge of those relationships if we are to hold our government accountable for whom they dance with on our behalf and how the government defines “American interests” abroad.