10 YEARS AFTER

I suppose it has something to do with our fingers, how we gather things in groups of ten.

Knowing today, September 11, 2011, was important, my K-8 school came up with a plan last week.

Students would write poems, two trumpeters would learn “Taps”, and I’d help turn four boxes into the Twin Towers.

It came together Friday morning in a solemn ceremony.

Later a few kids asked me to settle a rumor, “Did I have two skinny students standing inside our twin towers to keep them erect?”

I just answered with a shrug and a smile.