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songspinnerIt's already the 11th where my sister lives, and I don't know if I will have to time to post tomorrow morning, so...
After 9/11/01, I vowed two things.
The first, I can only sum up with this quote:
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
-Leonard Bernstein
The second is this: I will send out my own child and each class of my students into the world having been taught about diversity, about many religions and how many of them share ideas and dreams and connections of faith, I will continue to make sure that they meet a Muslim guest speaker so they will not hate what they do not know, and I will train them to ask intelligent and critical questions always.
I hope that our country has learned things since that day and will never again use an act of violence as an excuse to commit the same, to take away freedoms and basic rights, or to encourage fear. I am glad that CNN chose to include interviews about the latter today. I hope that somehow, the sense of unity I felt along with my country for a little while after that horrible day can come back. I will not forget the people who died and whose lives were devastated, and the vivid images from those weeks.
Tikkun Olam. In Hebrew, it means to take actions to repair the world. I wish it with all my heart. I saw a lot of it in the weeks following that day, and I hope I never stop seeing it.
After 9/11/01, I vowed two things.
The first, I can only sum up with this quote:
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
-Leonard Bernstein
The second is this: I will send out my own child and each class of my students into the world having been taught about diversity, about many religions and how many of them share ideas and dreams and connections of faith, I will continue to make sure that they meet a Muslim guest speaker so they will not hate what they do not know, and I will train them to ask intelligent and critical questions always.
I hope that our country has learned things since that day and will never again use an act of violence as an excuse to commit the same, to take away freedoms and basic rights, or to encourage fear. I am glad that CNN chose to include interviews about the latter today. I hope that somehow, the sense of unity I felt along with my country for a little while after that horrible day can come back. I will not forget the people who died and whose lives were devastated, and the vivid images from those weeks.
Tikkun Olam. In Hebrew, it means to take actions to repair the world. I wish it with all my heart. I saw a lot of it in the weeks following that day, and I hope I never stop seeing it.
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