Oh, darn. I deleted the digest in question. Anyway, Bush didn't REALLY ask performers not to record sappy records did he? (Go ahead, laugh at me, but I could believe almost anything these days.) Anyway, I got a chuckle out of it.
There was a memorial today for the flight crew of AA Flight 11 on Boston's City Hall Plaza. They released 22 white doves for the 22 crew members - and the doves flew away, of course. Bette Midler sang "Wind Beneath My Wings." While she was singing, the doves came back and flew over the thousands of people gathered there. When Bette finished, she sat down and sobbed for pretty much the rest of the memorial. I guess I'll add my $.02 about the current high emotions on this list. We're all in mourning. But unlike when we typically mourn, there is no 'safe haven' where we can go to escape this. It's everywhere. It's all of us, the whole world over, actually. And venting is a coping strategy. It's normal to say and do things we might not say or do under 'ordinary' circumstances. It's also normal to be angry. We (the civilized world) have been wronged. Maybe, to let people selectively wade through the volume of posts, it might be helpful to label the subject with (political content) or (religious content) or even (venting) just for a while. Just for a while. OK, go ahead, I expect (oh, who does this so well??? well, you know who you are) to come up with yet another list of acronyms to make us all smile and laugh at ourselves a bit. Like (TSGA - There She Goes Again) lots of love Anne
