For today’s Feature Friday I thought I would post something on 9/11. For those of us born after wars and coming of age after the Cold War, this is our JFK, our Moon Landing, our Berlin Wall: not the celebration of a good moment, but the marking of time as a culture ages and a generation comes to global awareness. I was in Japan at the time, a Canadian living in a community of Americans in a wide, big circle of Japanese people. It was unreal, and too real.
Best wishes to Americans as they remember, and remember. Here is a poem about war and loss from Charles Williams by that leading Inklings curator, Sørina Higgins.
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“A Pilgrim in Narnia” is a blog project in reading and talking about the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, L.M. Montgomery, and the worlds they created. As a "Faith, Fantasy, and Fiction" blog, we cover topics like children’s literature, myths and mythology, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, poetry, theology, cultural criticism, art and writing.
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For today’s Feature Friday I thought I would post something on 9/11. For those of us born after wars and coming of age after the Cold War, this is our JFK, our Moon Landing, our Berlin Wall: not the celebration of a good moment, but the marking of time as a culture ages and a generation comes to global awareness. I was in Japan at the time, a Canadian living in a community of Americans in a wide, big circle of Japanese people. It was unreal, and too real.
Thanks for sharing.
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