I have a business trip coming up. Will be in the air for a while. Including Tuesday.

Some thoughts:

As I listened to the radio this morning, I heard report after report about what ceremonies will be held for the remembrance of the 9/11 /2001 attacks.

Like it's some kind of a national holiday on par with, say, Memorial Day or Thanksgiving Day.

I wonder how long before we have "America Day" and the malls all open early with DOORBUSTER SALES ON THE NEWEST RED WHITE AND BLUE THINGS & FREE WITH EVERY PURCHASE - TINY PLASTIC MODELS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS! (made in China)

I'm tired of wallowing in endless national self-pity over the 9/11 attacks.

I admit that I spent pretty much all of 2002 and 2003 consumed with a combination of fear and melancholy over the attacks – after all, I like so many thousands of others was one of those “I was supposed to be there that day” people. But it’s 2007, I’ve proceeded with my life after a period of mourning. I’ve accepted. I've moved on.

As I fly from point A to point B on this coming September 11th 2007, while we cruise at 35,000 feet or so, I will peer out my window to the land below and I will hope that someday we will move on and we will stop the ceaseless mourning that threatens to turn the day into a kind of twisted national holiday, and we accept, understand and get on with the duty of life here and now, instead of obsessing over deaths in the past.

That is all for now.