{"id":1790,"date":"2011-09-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:28:52","slug":"obligatory-911-postten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/obligatory-911-postten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 and the Forgiveness Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re reading this post on 9\/11\/2011 then I’m probably wandering somewhere near Ground Zero while your eyes are skimming the page. I had a book signing event<\/a> yesterday but I wrote this days and weeks ago and set it to automatically post at 8am today. I didn’t want to miss today even if I’m not at my computer.<\/p>\n

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10 years ago, at 8am, the world was a different place. My students were different people. I was different too.<\/p>\n

Prior to 9\/11 I’d been through a couple of things that left post-traumatic scars—things I don’t really want to go into on a blog—so 9\/11 wasn’t unfamiliar psychological territory to me. But it was<\/em> unfamiliar to so, so many others who were also far too close to those buildings.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are new to my blog or my story, I wasn’t far away at Stuyvesant<\/a> (though you’d think they were much closer than they were, the way the papers went on about them). But I also wasn’t in the buildings themselves, skittering down the stairs while the firemen went up, up, up.<\/p>\n

I was at a small, unimposing, city high school—The High School for Leadership and Public Service<\/em>—about a half city block south of the South Tower. The only school closer to the Towers was our next-door neighbor, The School for Economics and Finance<\/em>. You probably never heard of either of our schools. That’s because our schools were home to “city kids” (that’s secret code for “mostly Black and Hispanic kids”). But you should<\/em> have heard of our school. It was amazing. Amazing administrators. Amazing staff. Amazing kids.
\nOur kids beat Stuyvesant at Moot Court.
\nI’m not braggin’.
\nI’m just sayin’…<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

We were there.<\/p>\n

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I wrote about our 9\/11 experience<\/a> on a blog long before there were<\/em> blogs. I also wrote about it irregularly here, on or around 9\/11 anniversaries.<\/p>\n