About six years ago I entered a design in the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. No, it's not the design they are building at the moment, but along with my submission came the idea for a symphony.
Today, I uploaded my first Youtube clip -
This is one of the middle movements, called "Towers of Light". I dug up some words for the occasion (below the break), but I think the accompanying pictures say it best.
The events of this summer have been hard for us all.
Sometimes it seems the capacity for
Empathy
Civility
Justice
and simple Good Manners
is lost to us.
But..No.
It's still in us, the capacity to be strong in our freedom and our graces toward each other. Each and every one of us.
All we have to do is remember and reawaken to the work of building again a hopeful, happy, healthy future.
Remeber to use the torch of our power to enlighten, to brighten, to guide, to lead, to shine.
The future is a wonderful place, it only waits for us to build it.
Together.
We just need remember who and what we really are - a people strong in our freedom, with generous gifts for each other and all the world.
A people who leave the world a better place than we find it...even if nothing lasts forever, at least we will leave the world with legends of what we raised - not battle standards, but buildings and hopes and ideas, dreams of the stars and the standard of liberty and justice for all, above all our vocations.
This is yet our destiny. This is yet the light that shines the way home.