Today’s Word Count: So far, 689 words.

I’m at the library now, a place that has become one of my favorite writing spaces. I put on my AirPods and tune in to instrumental soundtracks (today, it’s Keiko Matsui) and like magic, my fingers begin to fly. Something about listening to instrumental music seems to block out all the mental messages that often toss my creativity into a quicksand pit where my words paw and claw, struggling to get out of the muck of my mind and onto my laptop.

Anyway, I’m on such a roll writing today I’m going to “cheat” and repost a blog I wrote three years ago on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Even 23 years later, I still feel strongly about what I learned about love and about how quickly 20 years can go by.

The post was titled “20 Years.”

My thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones that day, as well as the families of first responders we lost in the days, months and years that followed. <3