Well…I know this is the sad anniversary of 9/11 and I do feel it that way even though I didn’t know anyone killed in the attacks…I grieve for my country and what has happened to it since that day…the hate and racism against Muslims and anyone else who didn’t agree that we should attack a country that had nothing to do with the attacks…and that led us to the idiot trump and his asshole cronies who have done more damage to the US than those planes flown into the buildings that day…but the day will always be personal to me since my MIL died that day from a long illness…this tiny little middle eastern woman who took one look at the hippie with hair down my back and welcomed me to dinner at the very dining room table that now sits in my dining room…I loved her like a mother and she returned that by loving me like a son…and I will never forget that…so today has been bittersweet as it always is and I don’t mind that…it’s part of being a human and I am a better person from knowing her….