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Went to Bed last night late @ 1:am after watching a good foreign film ” Winter in War Time” , exhausted. Woke up to a wonderful sight . On my bed lay my large dog, ” Cheyenne” ( only a year old now) and my cat , ” Zo-Zo” together. Quietly and Peacefully. Funny Creatures.
Up with morning Coffee. Thinking of the day ahead.
Gotta Clean House .
Then to get Flowers to give to a local Fire Station . In Remembrance and to say thank you for the Community Service and Work that they provide. Maybe this year I’ll also do Donuts or something.
I like to do my 9/11 Meditation and Thinking at a specific Duncan Donuts on Thompson Lane. When I was a member of the Peace and Justice Coalition, we had a member named Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily. Ahmed was from Iraq. I remember him as a quiet man. He worked at the Duncan Donuts on Thompson Lane.
He had also been invited to our Congregation and worked with our Youth Group. On his Van they had painted ” Peace” related Symbols .
From Being around him I knew that he was suffering from a high level of Post Traumatic Stress and that when the information and pictures of Abu Ghraib ere released . It was a major Trigger. I understand that he did take part in a protest down town and as a member of a Theater Group stood on the street as the ” Hooded Prisoner”
My emotions were mixed. He was not a Terrorist nor part of some cell but was an emotionally wrecked man pushed beyond his limitations. Yes. I believe that entrapment was involved. On the other hand he was responsible for his actions, and am grateful that he was stopped before he might have done any major harm to himself and others.
and so i go to the Donut Den on Thompson Lane to quietly think of 9/11, the fall out on individuals and groups ( Muslim Americans, Undocumented Groups, the individuals that died that day, Ahmed who is now back in Iraq, Today present Politics, Economics, Tom Fox ( Quaker who was be-headed in Iraq and had Nashville links ) and a Re-dedication of self and purpose to all of these spirits .
Tom Fox http://waitinginthelight.blogspot.com/
Ahmed A. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241811/posts
Unitarians http://www.uua.org/beliefs/
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