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Re: RAT Re: [bigcheap] THIS WEEKEND

Everyone will grieve in their own way.
 
Dave
 
 
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: RAT Re: [bigcheap] THIS WEEKEND

In a message dated 9/12/01 7:38:27 PM Central Daylight Time, scrdchao@nni.com
writes:







 I can't agree on this  point. It seems like another example of our
fast-food lives. Disaster Tuesday- Mourn Wednesday- get  back to work
Thursday. I'm not in New York or DC, I'm in Philadelphia- but I feel
a need to mourn and to think,and to keep MSNBC on 34 hours a day, and
to write...

 I want to feel the  enormity  not only of what happened, but what is
going to happen.  Part of me wants to feel it because I need  time to
digest  and be alone, part of me wants the time because I suspect it
will be the single largest societal event of my life,  and  I need to
figure out how to address this new cultural  landscape- this feeling
of fear, and dread, and absence- with my art.

There is a large Fringe festival going on here in Philadelphia- as
committed as I am to art, I truly feel the rest of the Festival
should be  canceled if for no  other reason than to honor those who
died.

-brad






I must admit that I feel the same as Brad.  Every time that I get an email
that has something to do with whatever else was happening in the world before
this, I get a bit annoyed.  Today is Wednesday.  I don't know how I will feel
on Friday, and I'm sure that eventually, my need to produce some art will
kick in, but until then I still feel in shock.  I feel it is important to
allow ourselves time to absorb the events of the last two days.  We must
allow ourselves to fully feel the extent of what has happened and to be
changed.  Only then can our art be a testament to the ideals that we hold so
dearly and the principles that we so fervently regard.
There is no right answer here.  Of course, everyone reacts differently.  We
also need to support each other in dealing with this in an individual and
personal manner.  My thoughts and love are with everyone.  This has changed
us all.

Ann