Reality interjecting
Good morning all. I hadn’t planned to write anything here this morning that was non-alpaca related but reality has seen fit to butt in. Suffice to say that there is nothing I can write here that can possibly compete with the momentous news of last night/early this morning. We breed and sell alpacas for a living which in the greater picture of the world at large, and particularly at moments such as this, really doesn’t seem to rate.
I will say that I just spent a little while speaking with one of the members of our staff, Jason Godin, who served multiple tours in Iraq in the Army and the sense of relief on his part is immense. For myself I will always remember calling my sister in a panic on 9/11/01 as both of the twin towers were billowing black smoke. Sarah, her husband John, and their two little girls (they were then 3 and 2) live in NYC on 11th Street, just a mile or so uptown from the Word Trade Center and almost literally across the street from the emergency room entrance of Saint Vincent’s Hospital. For those that don’t know, SVH was the ER closest to Ground Zero in NYC and became one of the key triage centers in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Combine all of that with knowing lots of people who lost friends that day and 9/11 became far more personal in nature than you would ever wish for. I’m not a big fan of “revenge,” an emotion which has a definite dark side no matter how righteous its intent might be but there is a definite and undeniable sense of justice having been done this morning. The world feels a tiny bit more in balance to me.
Regular alpaca related blog service will resume shortly…
Said very well…We’re on the same page, Ian. Without getting too dramatic, the news I heard first thing this morning went in one ear, entered the brain as a “correct event in this world”, then left through the other ear. Just can’t waste any of my time giving him more than a fleeting thought… Be gone!