Thinking of September 11, 2001, I recall the disbelief I held as I watched TV coverage of the tragic event of two airliners striking the World Trade Centers, the buildings collapsing in real time. It just didn't seem real. How could this happen in the United States?
Then this morning, September 11th, 2025, as I listened to Bernie Sanders speak at a Town Hall Meeting at Brooklyn College on September 8th about unprecedented current events ongoing in America in 2025, I realized disbelief is a similar recurring nightmare in which newscasts the world over describe the ideological attack on our country and are invariably linked to Donald Trump's election to the presidency of the United States in 2024.
At 3:48 AM, I'm thinking about a graphic similar to THE RAVEN Volume 6 Issue 3 cover, that I designed and published in 2002 that one RAVEN subscriber said she hung on her office wall in the federal building in Chicago.
The difficulty being that it would have to somewhat symbolize the loudest moan of anguish here, I ever heard, that thundered from a upstairs bedroom in this particular home in Palmville when election results were announced in 2024. It would have to somewhat symbolize each and every September 11th as though those thousands killed in all those buildings and across a field in Pennsylvania were immolated as in deference to the words the late conservative activist/Trump worshipper Charlie Kirk is said to have stated, in defense of the 2nd Amendment,
"It was worth it to accept some ... deaths." Now he's a martyr.
I'm starting to believe we're not in Kansas anymore Toto. What will future days bring?
Somewhere in the 15-1600s, Shakespeare wrote his 119th Sonnet which provides solace to me. We find ourselves at this worrisome point in time, but know for sure that good will out. With regard to our current horrid distractions, Shakespeare exclaims, "O benefit of ill! now I find true/That better is by evil still made better;/And ruin’d love, when it is build anew,/
ReplyDeleteGrows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater./So I return rebuked to my content/And gain by ills thrice more than I have spent. Augustine, Jung and others write marvelously about evils role. We gotta trust the process unfolding and continue to let the light shine.
Effective graphic, BTW.
Good one. Thanks.
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