Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: x Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:49:03 -0700 To: xxxx Subject: Two more letters Thought you all may be interested to look at the next two letters Paul and I wrote to each other. Ethan ----- Hi Ethan Dana forwarded me your email. Thank you for your thoughts. I was moved By what you wrote about breathing. I hadn1t thought of paying attention in that context. It feels like what you are saying about breathing is also about letting feelings go on, and also go through you (as opposed to holding them). Breathe them in and out. Am I in right? I guess this is a good way to deal with instability and uncertainty/change, which are very uncomfortable places for humans to be in. A few individuals have trained themselves to be able to live with the awareness of smaller or lesser degrees of uncertainty and flourish... Though in most Western hero stories even the hero settles down in the end. Eastern hero myths don1t seem to always resolve with a banishment of uncertainty/evil, but a transformation of it instead. Sort of the difference between slaying the dragon and going home, and transforming the dragon into a newt and going on. I think I1m having fun digressing here because this point is pretty far out from what you were talking about. Discomfort with a new context will drive people to do very extreme things. One extreme thing is to watch the TV news all day long, hoping that discomfort will pass. If you think about it, it1s pretty extreme. Another is to go to war. Another (rarer) is to wake up and realize that the conditions of the discomfort already exist and that we can rise to hold it. That1s hard to do. As you wisely point out, this is a process of breathing. Love PAUL --------- Paul, Thanks so much for your letter. I love when people really get passionate about change. It makes me feel like we make a difference. You are absolutely right about what you wrote about breathing. It is The best way to deal with every type of feeling and emotion. As an actor Who has studied and worked in theatre extensively around the world I have Been lucky to have met some of the most wonderful thouroughists (?should be a word!) on breathing. Just when I think I know a lot, I work with someone else who brings me to a realization that we will always hold on to our breath in some way. TV is in my opinion over rated and cumbersome. I agree watching TV mostly doesn't accomplish any change other than to either give information to update with or to overload with because it quickly becomes rather stagnant. I much rather like listening to the BBC or NPR. Still not any real replacement for human contact. But we need images around the world when you are not there in person. We want so much to be a part of that tangible quality that you as New Yorkers have to identify with. It must seem bizarre to say. You can really breathe it in. It is exemplified on how Rudy moves forward. He is a strong man. Wow. The hell with Bush, Rudy deserves a hug! That man knows how to change. Your transformation of evil ideas started me rolling: I loved your digression about changing the dragon into a newt. I am happy to slay the dragon or change it into a newt but I think that there is more benefit to changing it, for then we at least have made a difference for the better, rather than making a void for which yet another dragon can take it's place. I don't know. It's hard to know what outcome our actions will bring. Did we ever think Hiroshima would turn ancient Japan into a financial superpower with constitutional restrictions on acts of War? I wonder. What is so apparent right now is that which does not destroy us only makes us stronger. It will do the same to the Dragons. Only, in what way? So how do we destroy them? In what way do we depend on these dragons and in what way we never destroy them as long as we are hostages to their supply of petroleum? Should we let the Dragon live alone? That doesn't seem to be human nature, the dragon has too much treasure. We are too proud as men. I know what I battle against inside myself is this feeling of a need for destruction and desire for retribution. But would I really be pleased to see so many people die in the middle east? It seems like this dragon is a real mother fucker though. Really slippery. And I still drive a gas powered car and ate a double bacon cheeseburger last night and it was good! I can't help but think the sooner we develop a sustainable way to travel with out the use of oil the better. The sooner we stop using plastic the better. The sooner we stop being hypocrites and call a spade a spade the better, i.e. sticking our fingers into pies that do not belong to us and calling it "Home Ec". Literally!. But under all of this it's quite simple. I am pissed! I myself truly relish being in this uncomfortable place of change. It Is where I feel most alive and real. I guess to some it may seem that I am more morose than others but to me I rarely feel numb and complacent. As you wrote: "To wake up and realize that the conditions of the discomfort already exist and that we can rise to hold it." Thank you. That is where I strive to be, I strive to rise to hold the conditions of discomfort in complex balance and proportion to my Joy of living. And hopefully always remember to breathe deep. But god damn it's hard! Did I just write that? :-) Love, Ethan September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 18 Sep 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Subject: Two more letters Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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