It's smaller and more delicate than I had pictured it, and that pleases me.
(I know, the photo is really dark, but flash just wasn't working with the silver).
I'm wearing it today. I figured today of all days was a good day to remind myself that evil in the world has ultimately lost, even if it might not recognize that it has yet.
Over the weekend I blipped through a few programs commemorating 9/11. A few years ago I was a little cranky about these - some of them do border on being disaster porn, and I once said that I never need to see the footage of the towers collapsing again, that it's too seared into my brain. But, I realized - there's a whole generation coming up that might not know the history of this, and it does seem that recent history is less well-known by the young than earlier history. (For example: I know precious little about the Vietnam War, despite the fact that I was present on this earth during most of the US involvement in it. I know much more about World War II, the Civil War, and even World War I (I don't think that's as well-taught in the schools, and I think it's difficult to teach, because there's not the same clear "bad guys doing bad stuff vs. good guys trying to stop them" narrative as there is for World War II)
But yeah. The funny thing is, every time it comes 'round to the rules of probability in biostats, I remember - because that's what I was teaching then. Most of my other classes are different now (in Ecology I use a very different textbook, and Principles I didn't even exist in 2001), but in Biostats, it's the same thing. (And I remember the sense of futility I had, in those first few days after - what was the POINT of teaching the rules of probability when so many had died? But you soldier on).
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I'm also knitting more on the new version (the gift version) of Hitchhiker:
I like the colors in this. Hopefully my mom will like them too.
1 comment:
I love the pendant. And I think today is a lovely day to wear it and remember.
I choked up this morning. I was working in the same place I am now on 2001. I did the same things that morning. And I walked in and there was the big remembrance sign at the door (It is 2 stories tall, they bring it out once a week every yr) and I lost it.
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