Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

I always pause and remember the horror of that day.  I pray for those lost.  I pray more for those who lost loved ones, who continue to move on. I pray for peace. Stumbled across this today and thought I would share.  "I did not see the devil's face at Ground Zero. I saw the face of God in the people working, caring, sweating, crying, rescuing, recovering and being very spiritual in their very humanness." -Franciscan Father Joseph Bayne , chief chaplain of New York's Erie County Emergency Services

One World Trade Center Time-Lapse of Construction Watching this awesome time-lapse video made me think of my last visit to NYC this past fall. I miss being close enough to take day trips into the city. What the WTC building looked like when I saw it last. What am I doing in Ohio?

World Trade Center Memorial building budding up through Manhattan NY Stock Exchange remembers 9/11 View down Wall St. looking towards Trinity Church Washington watching over NY (Site of his Presidential Inauguration) "The Sphere," a sculpture by Fritz Koenig which stood at the World Trade Center as a symbol of world peace, was relocated to Battery Park on March 11, 2002, approx. six months after 9/11. The new memorial also includes an eternal flame (lit 9/11/0 2), "in honor of all those who were lost," says an explanatory plaque, "an icon of hope and the indestructible spirit of this country." View of the World Trade Center Memorial building from Battery Park, NYC View of the World Trade Center Memorial building from Battery Park, NYC I went into the City to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, to eat dumplings, maybe go to a museum, have good coffee; I did most of those things and in the process was overwhe...

After the grumblings of yesterday, I am humbled today in the memory of September 11th; nothing I write or say today in the remembering will be as profound as this video and this reflection. Under One Sky Isaiah 43: 18-19 "Did you not know? Have you not heard? I am doing a new thing. I am making a way when there was no way. I am making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands." On this tenth anniversary of the invasion of American sky by attacking and suicidal airplanes, my congregation is putting up prayer flags. There will be hundreds of them across our grand interior sanctuary, each hand-calligraphed by artist Carla Shapiro on pillowcases. In the year after the attack, she wrote out 2,500 obituaries of those who died in the World Trade Towers on prayer flags. She then hung the flags over the Esopus Creek in upstate New York, where the printing weathered into what can only be called an ancient script. Now the words are blurred, like the ...

I didn't post anything about September 11th, though I was thinking of it all day long. I read the most fascinating article from the New York Times about the United States post September 11th. If you missed it, check this link out.