I cannot believe it has been a year - it seems like yesterday. I wasn't sure how I would spend this day so I went to work and tried to carry on but how can one in anyway put out of their mind the enormity of it? Around noon I suddenly decided to attend the Interfaith Remembrance Service at the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. It was about a five block walk and I saw that there were thousands of people walking that way from all directions. Security was very good and smartly coordinated which put me more at ease. The congregation represented every community and facet of Los Angeles. Several representatives of many religions spoke, sang and prayed in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, English, Latin and other languages. Angelica Huston was the most eloquent "host" of the service. She was beautiful and comforting. We sang America the Beautiful and all the other American traditional songs. Everyone seemed to be trying to maintain their composure but tears were flowing everywhere. Mine started as soon as I arrived and read the program and saw that Burt Bacharach would be closing the service, leading us all in the song "What the World Needs Now is Love" (Sweet Love). The tears never stopped when we sang it at the end, all a little choked up and out of tune and sequence. There were many words of wisdom, inspiration and comfort but the words that most stuck with me were from a Rabbi quoting Albert Camus "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
We will always remember. Kakki
