5 Years
No perfume review today. I haven’t got it in me.
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Remember their lives as something bigger than their deaths. And then remember our unity on that day, and the days that followed as we tried to make sense of what happened.
Unity is not a means to a political end, despite the wrangling and grandstanding of our leaders.
Unity is not about agreeing to a lockstep mentality.
Unity is not about control, be that control of a message or control of other people.
Unity is the spontaneous coalescence of regular citizens who take their individual feelings of compassion and act upon them with hope and love for a greater good.
Despite the horror and inhumanity of 9/11, something beautiful persevered. Our unity. Not the government’s, not some jingoistic talking head’s. Ours. The American peoples’. Don’t let anyone get away with co-opting or perverting it today, on this fifth anniversary of the attacks.
Remember those who passed, recall what you were feeling that day as you watched what happened to them. And think of them with love. It’s okay to be angry: We all were. But we must remember that feeling of unity, of aching compassion, to avoid acting in anger.
Anger oftentimes is fear in disguise; to behave in anger is to behave fearfully.
Refuse the message of those preying upon our fear when they speak of 9/11.
Fear is the enemy of unity.