September 11

Laurie Frederiksen on

I spent some time with friends on a beautiful night last night paddling a kayak on a small lake under an almost full moon. Gliding silently through still water, in moonlit darkness, surrounded by stars, it was one of those times when life is put in perspective and you realize that there is something bigger than yourself that has gone on before and will continue after you are long gone.

In the daylight, I sit and look at the same lake but can now see that the leaves on the trees are green. Last night, when the trees and my friends and I were all reduced to black outlines in a night sky, it was easy to appreciate that we shared something in common. We are all just living things trying to survive day to day in a universe which was is so vast, our issues are insignificant.

I have similar thoughts as I remember 9/11. It was so overwhelmingly unbelievable that even now it is hard to find a way to grasp what happened. Yet after the darkness, to try and somehow deal with the tragedy, we reached out to each other. The barriers we had in place to protect ourselves melted away and the commonality of our humanness was all we needed to unite us.

I hope on this day of remembrance of those awful moments that we can also focus on how that vast emptiness stripped away what was trivial and showed us what is really important as we go about living our lives. How it reminded us again of the value of friends and family and community and the fact that we all have more in common than we have differences.

It's good to take a moment to remember and even to grieve. There were thousands of heroes on that September day. It seems to me that one of the ways we can help to honor them is by focusing our energies on reminding ourselves for the rest of our lives to be thankful for the things we have and the things we have in common and to stop wasting time focusing on the things we don't have and the differences between us.

To all who were directly affected by the events of 9/11, please know that there are lots of us out here, somehow trying to help you share the pain. Our hearts continue to go out to you, even 10 years later. We won't forget.
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Laurie Frederiksen
www.bivio.com

Gretchen Smith on

Thank you Laurie for those beautiful and encouraging thoughts.

Gretchen Smith
The Women's Investment Group

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz>
To: The Club Cafe <club_cafe@bivio.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 2:54 pm
Subject: [club_cafe] September 11

I spent some time with friends on a beautiful night last night paddling a kayak on a small lake under an almost full moon. Gliding silently through still water, in moonlit darkness, surrounded by stars, it was one of those times when life is put in perspective and you realize that there is something bigger than yourself that has gone on before and will continue after you are long gone.

In the daylight, I sit and look at the same lake but can now see that the leaves on the trees are green. Last night, when the trees and my friends and I were all reduced to black outlines in a night sky, it was easy to appreciate that we shared something in common. We are all just living things trying to survive day to day in a universe which was is so vast, our issues are insignificant.

I have similar thoughts as I remember 9/11. It was so overwhelmingly unbelievable that even now it is hard to find a way to grasp what happened. Yet after the darkness, to try and somehow deal with the tragedy, we reached out to each other. The barriers we had in place to protect ourselves melted away and the commonality of our humanness was all we needed to unite us.

I hope on this day of remembrance of those awful moments that we can also focus on how that vast emptiness stripped away what was trivial and showed us what is really important as we go about living our lives. How it reminded us again of the value of friends and family and community and the fact that we all have more in common than we have differences.

It's good to take a moment to remember and even to grieve. There were thousands of heroes on that September day. It seems to me that one of the ways we can help to honor them is by focusing our energies on reminding ourselves for the rest of our lives to be thankful for the things we have and the things we have in common and to stop wasting time focusing on the things we don't have and the differences between us.

To all who were directly affected by the events of 9/11, please know that there are lots of us out here, somehow trying to help you share the pain. Our hearts continue to go out to you, even 10 years later. We won't forget.
--
Laurie Frederiksen
www.bivio.com

Don Scoville on

NOTE: Many thanks for your thoughts.DON

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz> wrote:

I spent some time with friends on a beautiful night last night paddling a kayak on a small lake under an almost full moon. Gliding silently through still water, in moonlit darkness, surrounded by stars, it was one of those times when life is put in perspective and you realize that there is something bigger than yourself that has gone on before and will continue after you are long gone.

In the daylight, I sit and look at the same lake but can now see that the leaves on the trees are green. Last night, when the trees and my friends and I were all reduced to black outlines in a night sky, it was easy to appreciate that we shared something in common. We are all just living things trying to survive day to day in a universe which was is so vast, our issues are insignificant.

I have similar thoughts as I remember 9/11. It was so overwhelmingly unbelievable that even now it is hard to find a way to grasp what happened. Yet after the darkness, to try and somehow deal with the tragedy, we reached out to each other. The barriers we had in place to protect ourselves melted away and the commonality of our humanness was all we needed to unite us.

I hope on this day of remembrance of those awful moments that we can also focus on how that vast emptiness stripped away what was trivial and showed us what is really important as we go about living our lives. How it reminded us again of the value of friends and family and community and the fact that we all have more in common than we have differences.

It's good to take a moment to remember and even to grieve. There were thousands of heroes on that September day. It seems to me that one of the ways we can help to honor them is by focusing our energies on reminding ourselves for the rest of our lives to be thankful for the things we have and the things we have in common and to stop wasting time focusing on the things we don't have and the differences between us.

To all who were directly affected by the events of 9/11, please know that there are lots of us out here, somehow trying to help you share the pain. Our hearts continue to go out to you, even 10 years later. We won't forget.
--
Laurie Frederiksen
www.bivio.com

Bea on

Thanks for these good thoughts. Always enjoy all the info you share. Thought provoking and informative
Bea Langley
Lady Dabbler Inv. Club

On 9/11/2011 11:54 AM, Laurie Frederiksen wrote:

I spent some time with friends on a beautiful night last night paddling a kayak on a small lake under an almost full moon. Gliding silently through still water, in moonlit darkness, surrounded by stars, it was one of those times when life is put in perspective and you realize that there is something bigger than yourself that has gone on before and will continue after you are long gone.

In the daylight, I sit and look at the same lake but can now see that the leaves on the trees are green. Last night, when the trees and my friends and I were all reduced to black outlines in a night sky, it was easy to appreciate that we shared something in common. We are all just living things trying to survive day to day in a universe which was is so vast, our issues are insignificant.

I have similar thoughts as I remember 9/11. It was so overwhelmingly unbelievable that even now it is hard to find a way to grasp what happened. Yet after the darkness, to try and somehow deal with the tragedy, we reached out to each other. The barriers we had in place to protect ourselves melted away and the commonality of our humanness was all we needed to unite us.

I hope on this day of remembrance of those awful moments that we can also focus on how that vast emptiness stripped away what was trivial and showed us what is really important as we go about living our lives. How it reminded us again of the value of friends and family and community and the fact that we all have more in common than we have differences.

It's good to take a moment to remember and even to grieve. There were thousands of heroes on that September day. It seems to me that one of the ways we can help to honor them is by focusing our energies on reminding ourselves for the rest of our lives to be thankful for the things we have and the things we have in common and to stop wasting time focusing on the things we don't have and the differences between us.

To all who were directly affected by the events of 9/11, please know that there are lots of us out here, somehow trying to help you share the pain. Our hearts continue to go out to you, even 10 years later. We won't forget.
--
Laurie Frederiksen
www.bivio.com