Day Fifty
Holy Places
October 18, 2001
Thursday

". . .Then religion would have to live in the hearts and souls of men and women -- WHICH IS WHERE IT BELONGS IN THE FIRST PLACE!"

Day Forty-eight
Ground Zero and the Saudi Connection (The Spectator, London)
October 16, 2001
Tuesday

"I found this helpful and have mirrored it here, from The Spectator, for reference. Also, it is a contrast to most of the coverage I've seen in this country-- much more information than we are getting in the US."

Day Twenty-seven
Flying
October 7, 2001
Sunday

"Sushi fights writer's block while the US fights terrorism."

Day Fifteen
Racism
September 25, 2001
Tuesday

"But, the next thing I knew my imaginative/paranoid self kept going on and on about biological warfare and restaurants while my more sensible self kept screaming, "Racist! Racist! Racist!"

Day Thirteen
Changing
September 23, 2001
Sunday

"It's time to look again at the things that are important in life."

Day Seven
Thank you
September 17, 2001
Monday

"These pictures move me almost as much as the tragedy itself. More perhaps, in that they are images of love and of compassion. It reaffirms my faith in the world. In us. That we are a world of caring people."

Day Six
Looking to the Past
September 16, 2001
Sunday

"So when I asked him if he thought we should invade Afghanistan his response was, "Hell no!" You don't get more patriotic than my dad. But he also has that perspective one can only have after combat."

Day Five
Waiting
September 15, 2001
Saturday

"We all have different ways of dealing with our suffering I guess. Being with good friends certainly helps."

Day Four
Unity
September 14, 2001
Friday

"The potential for Unity -- of race, religion, nationality -- is beginning to lift my spirits and to inspire my hope. But these feelings come just a day after my blood lust."

Day Three
Correspondence
September 13, 2001
Thursday

"Sometimes our correpondence says more than our journals."

Day Three
A Day of Mourning
September 13, 2001
Thursday

"All these questions remain unanswered. But what the world really needs, what I really need, is a day of mourning."

Day Two
A Call to Arms
September 12, 2001
Wednesday

"The whole nation has lined up to give blood. It is a sign of unity, of solidarity, of compassion and support. It is all these thinigs and more. One thing for sure, it seems to me so much more beautiful than signing up to enlist."

Day One
Nobody to Hold
September 11, 2001
Tuesday

"It is not easy to write much now. My impressions? The people I'm meeting aren't as upset as I think they should be."