Wednesday, September 19, 2001 :
Where can this go from here? So it's a week and a day now since the World Trade Center was attacked and a week since my last post. And it's been a shocking and baffling time. I haven't known what to do with this website. I made an attempt at articulating my thoughts about the events of 11 September, and posted something early last Saturday morning. I then reread it and was disgusted with it. I felt that that any comments from me, far away, not directly touched by the attacks, were an affront to all those who were there, who were missing friends and relatives, who had written so intelligently and compassionately on their own websites, many of which I have been reading over the last week. So I deleted it and closed down the site in frustration at my own irrelevance and banality when trying to write about a horror that has had such an enormous effect throughout the world. After a few days of reflection, I've decided that I don't want to walk away from this site. On the terrible events of last Tuesday, I have nothing to add to my previous post that has not been better said, more coherently thought out or more shockingly and skilfully captured on film by someone else. In the most awful circumstances of the last week, some of the best writing and thought has originated from the personal internet publishing community. So I will try to add nothing. But when the feelings of pointlessness and powerlessness started to subside, it occurred to me that this does not mean that I will never have anything to add. So I'll keep trying to learn to think, to write and to create until I do.
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