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What if you spent every day looking for One Beautiful Thing?

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Remembering

Reuters (I think)

Reuters (I think)

I have nothing clever to say today. I’m just thinking about all those who were lost and those who were left. Wishing us all better days.

Much love,

Donna

In case you want more, here are my previous 9/11-related posts.

A small collection of beautiful, sweet, painful stories told by those who lost family members, It Never Gets Easier.

A 9/11 story you’ve probably never heard, All Hands On Deck.

And my personal 9/11 story, It Was a Beautiful Day.

 


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Much Loved

Pink Teddy looks like I feel. Photo and caption above by Mark Nixon

It’s hard to believe I’m writing another one of these awful notes, and only a week after the last one. I don’t recognize this world. I don’t know where all this hate and violence is coming from. Leaving the analysis and problem solving to bigger brains than mine, I’m going to just keep on keeping on with the beautiful things and hope that some day soon we don’t need them quite so much.  Wishing us all better days. ❤

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