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I’m supposed to be sleeping but my mind is awake. Darn.

The other day I mentioned to someone that on the night between the 11th and 12th, I found myself reading through all the emails surrounding 9-11-01. I read further than that, but mainly I was reading the emails from a couple groups that wrote extensively as the news broke and in the days following.

As I was reading I felt again much of the sadness. Some of this had been stirred up by the documentary 9-11 on TV this last week. But it’s the 6th month anniversary of the attacks.

Anyway, the person I was speaking with listened about my late night readings and said – me too. Another person joined us and hearing what we were talking about said – me too. How interesting is that? Touching base with personal messages surrounding and part of our lives then.

Still trying to make sense of the whole thing.

I got out my 9 patch quilt top that I was working on, on the days leading up to 9-11 and finished on the night of 9-11 and looked at it tonight. When I showed it a week or so later, I gave its theme as “order from chaos” because of the coloration of the 9 patches. But a few weeks after that I knew the real name of it — Summer Seen From September, 2001. I have been thinking about this quilt in the past week and I think I’m ready to quilt it.