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Deborah Brasket's avatar

I didn't realize I was posting this on 9/11, but it seems prescient that I did so. The horror of that day will always remain with me, as well as the heroic efforts of people to save lives and comfort each other, that sense of togetherness, of shared grief and shared love for the victims.

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David Deubelbeiss's avatar

Some powerful thoughts herein ... so much of our lives, we live with our heads in the sand ignoring the role of suffering and death in life. We don't want to hear any deers scream. But it is, as you point out, right there infront of us all the time, this terrible fact of dying - even breathing we kill through our living, 100,000s of lives, happy microbes. I once wrote a piece, a kind of Ginsbergian chant about how everyone should have to dig a grave, your piece reminded me of that. Living is but one form of dying.

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