Not long ago I sought to explain to my husband that for the millions of us who happened to have been watching television on the morning of September 11, 2001 and witnessed the unfolding terrors we have been functioning in a fog. We, like victims of war, are experiencing delayed stress syndrome and it has been manifesting itself in all manner of dysfunction in our daily American lives.
Today, having been witness once again, albeit second or third or fourth hand, to the earth changing tragedy on the Asian and African coasts of the last few days, I know my own psyche has fled to a momentarily numb hiding place. Literally, in the proverbial "twinkling of an eye" we witnessed the world change! A beautiful, placid calm sea became a behemoth -- any thought of our immortality whisked away in an instant as we saw life enmass swallowed up into eternity before our eyes.
My question, if I even have one, is simple. What is man?
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
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