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5 years ago today, the world changed a lot.
I should have been on my way to 130 Liberty Street to my consulting assignment. Instead I was in a courthouse in Hackensack, NJ on jury duty. I am eternally grateful for this. I would say I am 1 degree removed from those who died - either former coworkers, my cousins's friend who ran the Port Authority, my friend's sisters ex-husband..it is a small financial world.
I still remember how beautiful the morning was and how blue the sky was. Just like today.
I am wearing a denim shirt with a plaid collar today with a 9/11 memoria polymer clay ribbon pinned to it. I bought a lot of memorial jewelery on eBay after 9/11 and have kept it. I dressed Alan in a flag shirt so he'd wear red/white/blue. I've been doing this the past 4 years. I wonder if anyone else does anymore, I didn't notice anything on the way to work.
I exited the Port Authority Bus Terminal a little after 9:03 (the time the 2nd plane hit). I then noticed my brand new (been the closet forever) right shoe broke (lace became unstiched, not fixable). Weird.
At work here someone had a tv on for the memorial and under the sketch of the 4 employees who died, there are flowers and candles today. (The company was on the 82nd floor of one of the towers before I joined them in January 2002). Now that more people have joined who weren't there then, the vibe has changed on 9/11, not as sad as it was.
I should have been on my way to 130 Liberty Street to my consulting assignment. Instead I was in a courthouse in Hackensack, NJ on jury duty. I am eternally grateful for this. I would say I am 1 degree removed from those who died - either former coworkers, my cousins's friend who ran the Port Authority, my friend's sisters ex-husband..it is a small financial world.
I still remember how beautiful the morning was and how blue the sky was. Just like today.
I am wearing a denim shirt with a plaid collar today with a 9/11 memoria polymer clay ribbon pinned to it. I bought a lot of memorial jewelery on eBay after 9/11 and have kept it. I dressed Alan in a flag shirt so he'd wear red/white/blue. I've been doing this the past 4 years. I wonder if anyone else does anymore, I didn't notice anything on the way to work.
I exited the Port Authority Bus Terminal a little after 9:03 (the time the 2nd plane hit). I then noticed my brand new (been the closet forever) right shoe broke (lace became unstiched, not fixable). Weird.
At work here someone had a tv on for the memorial and under the sketch of the 4 employees who died, there are flowers and candles today. (The company was on the 82nd floor of one of the towers before I joined them in January 2002). Now that more people have joined who weren't there then, the vibe has changed on 9/11, not as sad as it was.
