September 11, Fifteen Years Later

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

REMEMBER

Photo by Pearl Yee Wong of the Michigan State University Museum

Last year I wrote:

I’ll be spending today quietly, thinking and doing “normal” things. That’s always the contrast isn’t it, what had been normal and this instant where the world becomes something else, something unknown until now. Something perhaps unimaginable but now sitting quite real in the world, alongside us.

This year I think there is more contrast and need for more reflection and I’m glad to be home for the day, trying to do normal things again.

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3 Responses to September 11, Fifteen Years Later

  1. Rebecca in SoCal says:
    September 11, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    I found your blog through comments and posts about Kathy Nida’s quilt removal. I was stunned when I saw the above quilt(s?), because it is so very close to what I envisioned back then (but I never made). Respect!

    • Mary Beth Frezon says:
      September 11, 2016 at 9:40 pm

      Thanks so much Rebecca. Those quilts, made in the couple weeks after september 11, each held a portion of the emotions and responses we all felt. Can’t imagine what seeing them all in Houston that year must have been like. I saw a portion of them the next year and it was powerful.

    • Mary Beth Frezon says:
      September 11, 2016 at 9:41 pm

      PS it’s just one quilt. The darkest portion in the center is black velvet.

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