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This was a pretty though year so I wasn't around a lot. Mostly I was posting in the BookClub threads and I was taking long leaves of absence After the last one I am a bit confused - I found so many interesting changes.

I am glad I am back, because I actually missed this place, but it turns out I don't know a lot about it any more. The new members for example - there are so many new users (don't get me wrong this is great , i am just in some strange ...

My loss was a year before the attacks on New York but, because so many others lost people on this day, it seems appropriate...

9/11

This day of all the days in the long year
Reaches out to me with your arms
And speaks to me with your voice.
It makes me small and young again
Trusting your shoulder to be there
When I leaned toward it,
And your kiss to be there
To comfort me when I’d fallen.
This day extends to me ...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200..._collider.html

Paul: Pablo what's wrong with you.
Pablo: Who are you?
Paul: I'm you. This is my real name.
Pablo: Oh, I thought I was Spanish.
Paul: Not really. So why are you so upset.
Pablo: I fear I'm never going to get to Dos Passos.
Paul: Why not?
Pablo: Well if you remember, you bought the USA trilogy, but before reading it you decided that you wanted to read other authors of the late 19th - 20th centuries?
Paul: How can I forget?
...

Myself Divided

Where do I stand
Alone!
Separated!
drifting apart

Severed from myself
parceled out
shared among parts

Dissected
rearranged
fear on the fringe

Breathing quietly
spinning in the darkness
clawing toward the top

I want to escape
into you
Save me!
from myself?
from this existence?