Dear World: Today I
want to make a new habit. As I reflect
on teaching Internet Technologies thirteen years ago at Johnston Community
College when the world as I knew it changed, journaling my journey is where I
am in this moment. I can still remember
the person who came to my class and told us a plane had crashed into the World
Trade Center. I can see our faces as we
watched the tv in horror as the second plane flew into the second Tower. In that moment, all of us knew it was not an
accident. In that moment of realization
we all held our breath in shock and dismay.
My students and I lost our innocence in that moment. Everything that we thought we knew about
being safe and secure was gone in an instant.
We all have a choice as to what we want to make today. Some people choose to make war, chaos,
mayhem, murder, rape, scheming, plotting, vengeance, hatred or just plain
mischief. 9.11 shows what comes out of a
human heart made hard by hatred and vengeance.
Hatred breaks many hearts but I’ve known of a human heart healed by
it. Hate just makes more hate. So, what do you want to make today? Do you want to make the world a better place
or a worse place? Hating and killing
another person is never going to solve a problem, and it’s never going to make
any set of circumstances better.
What do I want to make today? A new habit of journaling my journey that
fosters dreams about combining indigo dyed cloth with clay to make decorative
and wearable objects.
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