"God Deciding" *

Although I don't have anything enlightening or prosaic to write about September 11th, I feel it would be disrespectful not to recognize it. Below is my story of that morning in Atlanta.

I was walking through the lobby of my office on the way to the mailroom on September 11th, 2001. The televisions in the lobby were tuned to CNN. Three people were milling around the reception desk and someone mentioned that a plane just flew into the World Trade Center. There was a second of joking about the navigational skills of bad amateur pilots. I giggled, picked up my mail, and headed back through the lobby. The crowd of three had grown to a crowd of twenty something in under 10 minutes. The second plane had hit and we had realized it was not an accident. Our entire office crowded around the television sets scattered throughout the floor and watched in stunned silence. By 9:30 am our office was evacuated for fear that we may be a target. By 9:45 am I was sitting on the rooftop deck of my loft watching the skies that were eerily free of planes (despite the fact that I lived in a flight path). At 10 am I turned on the radio and heard that the first tower had collapsed. I remember sitting and waiting all day long for the horrors to continue to unfold. I knew life in the US would forever be changed.

*Song by Hot Water Music