This week we all pause to reflect on the events of 9/11/2001. Each of us has our own ritual: minutes of silence through the morning. Watching (credible) documentaries. Holding our loved ones close.
I want to speak a little bit today about September 14th: The Friday After.
As I stumbled through a fog of disbelief and pain on the days following 9/11 I remember emails and conversations hinting at a nationwide-level of reaction for Friday. A groundswell of needing to do something -- anything -- to demonstrate to the world, to ourselves, that we would overcome this. That this was not an acceptable act. That we would not back down.