(The World Trade Towers and the QEII Photo:Neal Boenzi/The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/towers.html#1 _____________________________________________________________ [As we head toward the fifteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I am reposting (with some revisions) something I wrote several years ago that still reflects my thinking about the primacy of creating and sustaining a community that prioritizes empathy. Since posting this […]
The 9/11 Seawall and the Figurative Seawall: The Empathetic Community
My mother posted the YouTube link I attached below on Facebook last week, and combined with a ‘thank you’ for a good faculty meeting last Tuesday, I forwarded it along to the High School faculty thinking that some faculty members might want to show it to their homeroom advisories at some point. “Boatlift”, the story […]
September 11: I could not stop watching because I could not begin to understand
View of Mt. Pisgah from Asheville School (Photo: AdmissionsQuest) I read the following comments during the September 11th Commemoration Assembly at The Westminster Schools today. On September 11, 2001, I was teaching at a boarding school in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and I remember that I had a […]