In the Mythopoeic Society, there is a group of women who often declare themselves to be pirate queens at Mythcon. They have pirate flags and little hats and eye patches and speak pirate. Sadly, there are no parrots.
How could people tell you to get perspective? I remember how traumatizing the 1989 earthquake was to those of us in the SF Bay Area. That was a natural disaster and very few people died. I had nightmares for months.
The destruction of the World Trade Center was so many orders of magnitude greater and done deliberately -- I can't begin to imagine how terrible that must be for New Yorkers.
Yesterday at a local high school, they were having a ceremony with the band playing "America the Beautiful." The band director had written out the words for the students to sing, and had changed "God shed his grace on thee" to "Please send good grace to thee." (I'm not quite sure who he thought was going to be doing the sending.) The students ignored the band director and sang the original words.
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