Remembering 9-11

It was 10 years ago that we saw great tragedy followed by a great outpouring of love. I thought it was interesting to see this week in our town this same attitude that we witnessed after 9-11. A car and a motorcycle collided and the motorcycle driver was trapped under the car. Good people, complete strangers rushed to the burning area while risking their lives and lifted the car and saved the life of the young man. Perhaps you saw it on the national news this week. I was so proud to be from Logan. Just like I felt so proud to be from America right after 9-11. I believe that it is within our natures to rush in and even risk our lives to help someone in need. I believe that when all is said and done even when bad things happen, love prevails.



In memory, I wanted to share a song I wrote after the original 9-11 10 years ago. The link to hear the song is here: This song is performed by Angela Winston. I will also write the lyrics below.

http://www.heartrisemusic.com/Downloads/Music/Winston-Prevail.mp3

Love will Always Prevail
You show your hatred, you bring us pain
But we always find a way to love again
You cause destruction, you tear apart
But you’re never going to stop our beating heart
Because
America is built on Love
And the heart of this land will never fail
When all is said and done, we will still be number one
Because Love will always prevail.
We’ve been scarred by you before
And I’m sure America will see some more
But your hatred cannot compare
With the love you’re gonna see this nation share
Because
America is built on Love
And the heart of this land will never fail
When all is said and done, we will still be number one
Because Love will always prevail.
Try to tear us apart
And watch us pull together
America’s heart
Will keep beating forever.
Because
America is built on Love
And the heart of this land will never fail
When all is said and done, we will still be number one
Because Love will always prevail.

Expensive Lessons

Vitaliy (13) has been begging all summer to get the job of mowing the lawn. I think it has something to do with him liking to ride the big,new,green John Deere riding lawnmower. I finally ignored my gut feeling and assigned him the job last month (August.) We gave him lessons but I guess we didn't think to tell him everything that he could do to break the machine. During the first week of him doing the job we had to send it into the shop (a $60 pick up fee) to have something fixed with the starter. I don't know if this was his fault or not but he did keep the ignition going and going and going. even when it was started and it did something and it broke. After getting that fixed, he drove it into a ditch (we don't have ditches in our lawn, but he found one by the neighbor's corn field.) This broke another major part and we had to fix that. Then this week we are replacing the whole ignition because he couldn't find the key and decided to use a pair of scissors to start the mower and somehow stripped the ignition. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. The lawn looks nice, however.