I've just come back from a walk into town. Today is a fairly leisurely day, the sun is shining, the tide is in and breakfast in Tesco's beckoned.
Here and there, the Union Jack is flying at half-mast in honour of the victims at the WTC. Marks and Spencer's, Tesco's and other stores too are displaying signs that business stops for 2 minutes at exactly 1:46.
There's lots of schools, businesses and factories observing a two-minute silence also. There's nothing been officially organised or arranged by HMG either, just people doing what they want to do.
Much the same down here, though can't say that I've seen any flags at half mast. Tis a beautiful day though, everyone just going about business as usual. Here at work, a happy atmosphere preside's. The tide in the Penryn River is on the ebb leaving the mudflats glistening in the late summer sunshine, seagulls wheeling overhead and the girl in the office next door looking as radiant as ever, life just about going on at it's leisurely pace as usual.
Perhaps with a childhood brought up on Armegeddon scenario theories and/or hearing about the bombings in Northern Ireland every single day, year in, year out plus these days the increasing activities of ETA does somewhat numb you to the greater picture going on, who knows?
Anyway, peace be with you and all the locals in the Waverley, take care.
Its overcast here in S. Florida...which is very rare actually. The sun gone, calm and dark and pensive. I watched Dateline last night and watched the horror all over again, the stories, the hope, the sorrow, the incredible EVIL that caused this deliberate abomination. The innocents who both died and were their survivors. This morning, programs began at 8 AM people pouring into ground zero, a flowing field in Pennsylvania, the masses converging on the Pentagon, the troops in Afghanistan, the Royalty in England, the silence at 8:46 EST US. I watch those buildings come down over and over and over with some fascination I cannot explain, and I think perhaps I just cant wrap my mind around it. I cant conceive that those buildings fell. I believe that Bin Laden knew that they would...knew if he found the right spot...they would come down. He tried a few years ago when he bombed the parking garage...and I know he knew...they would come down with well placed missiles.
God bless America...and thank you to all those in other countries who mourn with us. You have lost some of your sons and daughters that day too.
