An Unexpected Journey

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in the Chicago 'burb that I reside in. Autumn is gliding in on the points of the orange and red leaves of the tree across from my studio window and the much-beloved school bus yellow is back in our world! There is much to catch up on within my Just Hatched world, I know... but not today.

Today has become a day of reflection that my heart says that I must share. I have been sitting in front of my sewing machine quietly quilting for a few hours with my head and heart trying to digest a documentary that I watched earlier today. I was taking a break from sitting up and just flipped thru Hulu like I normally do and instead of clicking on an episode of "House" or something else that would just slide thru my brain, LOL... I found a piece called "7 Days in September", clicked and then world stopped.

 So, while there is much to tell of the past few weeks here at JHP... there is more to say by sharing this incredible video. It is a collection of "home" movies by 27 folks of the events of Sept.11, 2001. As I said in my Facebook post - this so-called "Wordster" simply has no words. If you haven't seen it - do. If you think you don't have the time - make it. If you think you have seen everything you need to see on the subject - you're wrong. This is full of personal, immediate thoughts and images that are NOT of the "shocking/TV news" kind... but of the human, in the moment, this is my life kind.

Why am I sharing this? To be honest...because I never really knew the full extent of the whole disaster. At the time I was trying to shelter my young daughter as much as possible from the media images and sensationalization which also allowed me to "duck and cover". What is really odd for me is that the HISTORIAN in me collected the special Time issues, etc. for that same daughter to have in her "history chest"... Yeah, I know, other mom's collect table linens. I collect historical papers for her. LOL. So we have ALL of the information... but it's all nicely put away. Today, with this video, I took off the emotional blinders in a big way. Tonight I will watch this with that very same daughter...who is all grown-up now. I cannot even imagine the conversation afterwards, but I know we will have one.

You know, I quilt memories...to create them, save them, pass them on. Today was a very interesting lesson in not being afraid to gather them.

 Peace today to each of you. Pamela