http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2006/01/30/connection-and-disruption/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:33:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2006/01/30/connection-and-disruption/#comment-2 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:30:44 +0000 http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2006/01/30/connection-and-disruption/#comment-2 I think that, especially in a post 9/11 world, we all remember a recent global "disruption" in our lives. Now, five years later, we face the "regular world," and attempt to balance that in our minds with unsettling political agendas, normalcy in the workplace, and recent memory of that disruption. We cling to the memory of those months that we all were simply American. Partisan, socio-economic status, corporate fraud, prejudice--these were not concerns in the months to follow September 2001. We want to connect--and do--to these stories that remind us of what it was like to live through that tragedy, and break forth into a normal life again. Just as after the quake plays on our fantasy, The Well-Appointed Room makes us realize what an impact a single moment in time, the disruption, can make in our life. I think that, especially in a post 9/11 world, we all remember a recent global “disruption” in our lives. Now, five years later, we face the “regular world,” and attempt to balance that in our minds with unsettling political agendas, normalcy in the workplace, and recent memory of that disruption. We cling to the memory of those months that we all were simply American. Partisan, socio-economic status, corporate fraud, prejudice–these were not concerns in the months to follow September 2001. We want to connect–and do–to these stories that remind us of what it was like to live through that tragedy, and break forth into a normal life again. Just as after the quake plays on our fantasy, The Well-Appointed Room makes us realize what an impact a single moment in time, the disruption, can make in our life.

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