While I’m still deciding how to use this blog, I’m posting this Word Cam as I think it nicely sets the mood. A Word Cam is a concept I created that I define as: “1. A device for capturing a moment using the technology of words. 2. An opportunity to pause and reflect and connect.” And I maintain a Word Cam site on Blogger.com. Enjoy.
Patriot’s Day
Earlier this morning, the curious racket of fife and drum drove me and the cat to the window to peer down upon freedom trail trodding, tri-cornered hat wearing soldiers marching three abreast. Here, three floors above the street in Charlestown, I listen to Dick Gordon’s Day 6 in Bagdad, and in the next room Channel 5 broadcasts from Hopkinton where 20,000 runners prepare to invade the city bringing with them the brighter side of the human spirit. Having just returned from watering yesterday’s planting of pansies, I check in on the Harvard blog project. And when the spine tingling roar of military jets reaches my neighborhood, again I rush to the window, knowing the marathon has begun, and feeling for a moment conflicted. Excited by this awesome display of power and the obvious relationships and contrasts to the morning’s earlier patriots, I am washed in a spring breeze and awash in an increased awareness of these powers and freedoms, and the opinions and emotions, motivations, commitments and traditions that inspire people to run, to plant, to kill, to debate, to blog, to push ahead and to remember. Looking out at this beautiful day, I am aware of how connected we all are at any given moment, and wondering how many shades of gray there really are anyhow.
