For some reason this post keeps gravitating to the top of the blog. I have been back from my writer's block for a good while now, though you would not know it from this! ;) So, I thought I would add abit here, as the date is close if not the year, and perhaps the codes that be will get all the others straightened out! Here's hoping!
Hello, blog world. I am back from my hiatus. It is an odd day to log back on -- September 10, the day before. Before. Nine years tomorrow. But we are still here, such as we are -- a little bent and wrinkled, worn down by internecine struggles, naivete exposed. People finding 15 minutes of fame with blusters over to burn or not to burn, to secede or not to secede. It is a different landscape we face, this new reality with tales of burkas and bail-outs, of tea bags and fatahs.
But we are still here, this good-at-heart America, trying to find our way. Seeing through a glass darkly, fighting over who holds the telescope and whether union labor made the lens, but we are still here -- waiting now for September 12 when we can breathe and say, "Whew."
No, we still do not really understand the why nor do we really believe in the adjusted world template. We lean on social networks and away from politicians; we lean on the Internet and away from the main stream media. We lean toward center -- toward each other, forever embedded with the internalized fact that whatever our divisions and whatever crisscrossed swords and spaces the normative world puts between us, we shared September 11, 2001 -- together as one, united. We Stood. We stand. America.
