I wanted to share this story with everyone on the last 9/11 anniversary, but I couldn’t find this journal. Since I’m doing a little cleaning up here, I found it and scanned the relevant pages.

The morning before the 9/11 attacks, I awoke and started to write in a journal. I did this at the suggestion of the book, The Artist’s Way.

The view from our window in Park Slope was the entire downtown NYC area, dominated by the Twin Towers. That Monday morning was heavily overcast, with low clouds obscuring half the view of the towers. I decided to write what I saw out the window that morning. Remember, this was 9/10/01.

(My writing skills first thing in the morning are pretty poor, so excuse the grammar. I also blurred out the parts in the scans that were not relevant and more personal)

“The clouds have cut the buildings in half just like they did when I was younger. Watching the Empire State Building cut in half by the fog. That used to scare me. I thought that Godzilla tore the building in half. Imagine a building that size broken in half! or even the world trade center. What would have happened if the terrorists had made their plan work? there would not be any twin towers. Maybe they would call it the orphan tower and the other would be turned into scrap metal and then turned into a memorial.”

Pretty freaky, eh? Must have been a real negative energy in the world that day and perhaps I picked up on it when I awoke that Monday morning, September 10th, 2001.

Click on for closer scans of the actual entry.

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