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GROUND ZERO

An exploration of our interdependence on a higher power.

Last  month,  while  at  Maplebrook  School  for  reunion  my  choice  for  the

    Saturday  trip  was  New  York  City.  I  had  not  been  there  for  many  years;

the  only  prior  visit attraction  observed  was  at  the  main art  gallery  where  my

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    teacher  back  in  1962,  Betty  Ahearn  and  I  observed  a  painting  by

Samuel  F.B.  Morse,  an  ancestor  of  hers  who  had  a  painting  of  historical

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interest.

    Our  alumni  trip  was  quite  different.  We  began  with  Ripley's  Believe  It

or  Not  Museum  complete  with  a  two  headed  cow,  600  pound  preserved

    man  dressed  as  a  woman,  exhibit  of  how  Eastern  culture  women  have

from  an  early  age  had  rings  forced  onto  their  necks  to  stretch  them  and

   many  other  strange  objects.

Steve,  the  driver  of  van  3  and  I  following  lunch  at  McDonald's  went  with

   the  rest  of  our  crew  to  Ground  Zero.  This  for  me  was  eye  opening  and

sobering,  inspiring  and  a  wake  up  call  that  we  are  living  in  a  society

   and  culture  which  are  fraught  with  challenge,  opportunity  and  yes

peril.  We  must  not  take  any  of  this  for  granted.  At  the  pool  where

   the  names  of  those  who  had  perished  in  the  towers  lost  their  lives

in  Tower  2  were  four  Rice  family  members;  perhaps  part  of  a  family

   which  I  did  not  know;  maybe  not  related  at  all.  I  felt  a  bond

none  the  less.  The  greates tragedy  for  every  single  one  of  these  fallen

    was  that  they  were  taken  from  their  loved  ones  before  their  lives

were  at  their  point  of  greatest  use.

     Of  all  the  journeys  of  my  life  this  I  felt  was  one  of  the  most  prfound.

You  learn  from  it  that  each  moment  must  be  measured  and  treasured  as

    a  speciel  gift  from  your  Creator.

 

 

 

 

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