Hazards,
- skid marks leaving
the road,
-
shipwrecks,
- and
pirates.
What starts to
be journal-writing at the side of the road,
later becomes
something sent...
Sept.
11/01
8PM or
so,
World Trade
Centre
Twin
towers
completely destroyed
today.
Horrific Plane
hi-jacking and destruction.
Laughably overdone,
if in
a Hollywood
movie.
Tremendous planning
and execution!
Flawless,
and
hideous!
Brahms' Symphony #1
in C minor
(from Lucas, for a
birthday)
Such beautiful music! (track 2 -
7:15)
What contrasts.
on my way home from
work, on Central Saanich Road.
...
hazards...
I feel like talking,
to people I'm fond
of;
Out of
need and fear,
and
out of love and strength.
Talking of life's
troubles,
horrific
troubles,
...
yet beauty remains.
I'm going to get too
tired or chicken to send this later! No!
OK! Call me crazy!
I'll take that, with a smile.
Ok, gettin' to the
point here...
Should I meet some unlucky
fate,
I want some people to know I cared for them.
Oh, that none of you will get on the wrong plane.
Oh, that I might not lose the courage to send
this when I get home!
back to the early demise
thing...
-
For some, a quick and hearty, smiling wave,
-
And some a slow, solemn, smiling wave.
And for some,
a
hug,
longer and deeper than any other.
( I'm likely stepping
WAY inside the space of yours,
I'd usually be more
respectful and fearful of.
Don't worry - I'll be
alright;
I trust you and
I will recover from this.
I'm 42
And old enough to
write.
I don't know - it
meant something to me earlier, when I wrote it.
(This was one of those
once-in-twenty-years sort of times for me, tonight;
if that's any consolation to you)
You know,
There's an expression I like,
that remains with me
from the Christian Church...
May the Lord
bless you and keep you,
May the Lord smile
upon you, and be gracious unto you;
May the Lord lift up
his countenance upon you,
And give you
His peace.
Or something like
that.
Ok, I've likely said
way more than you're comfortable with. Now, having
re-written it, I'm not very comfortable sending it either.
But I
must!
I won't be able to face
myself tomorrow if I don't.
- that's the bottom
line for me.
I saw difficult
triggers pulled today - at least for anyone who wants to preserve his or her own
life. Interesting for me now, that this is a difficult trigger to
pull.
I think many or most
of us were rather profoundly affected by today's events.
I now feel differently
about the things which are important to me.
Keep your candle
burning.
Yours,
Eric
Ok, tell you
what... just keep this for a rainy day, like, in a file
named, "for when Eric Porcher gets hit by a tru... an
airplane." On that day you can read it
and know that you were important to me. Until
then... sorry... I don't really know what to suggest you
do about it. But I have to send
it. Aughhhh, here
goes....!