That’s very moving. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 16 years. I thought recently that we will soon have an entire generation of young, voting age adults who have no life memory of it.
(I really like your fine art and Xmas videos!)
There’s a strange man who writes aggressive things to me on YouTube that I ignore. His last one was about my putting up the News playlist about 9/11, when he called it “old news.” It’s not to me. It has to be remembered. A lot of what is up now about that day has been sanitized, like Father Judge being killed by falling debris rather than by a falling woman. I think the issue of protecting the feelings of those who lost people that day is an excuse for not letting people feel the pain as deeply as they did at first. It’s a political changing of memories so that the young never know. I went to U of Chicago, where we studied source material rather than text books. Keeping these videos alive is my version of source material.
Thank you SO much for your kind comments on the fine art and Christmas videos. Christmas - well, it’s irresistible to integrate all of my life together. Fine art - I may not want to spend hours pouring over my old art books, but I do want to be able to spend 4 minutes to remember. So I’m still searching for the right pieces of music to put together videos on French Impressionism, Rodin’s statues, religious art, etc. Then when I want to remember how much I loved the beauty, I’ll be able to remember for a few minutes. I’ve put my high school classmates and grandfather and mother and my town to music. It’s like a video scrapbook, instead of my old photo ones. I can’t tell you how good it feels to have someone watch and share those emotions.