It’s a quiet, rainy morning outside in the Ozark woods. The kind of serenity that makes for nostalgic reflection. Unusually peaceful without even the whine of a chainsaw that drones when people like me are taking advantage of the coolness to begin the arduous work of cutting and splitting firewood for what bodes to be a long and cold winter. I say bodes because just like every year, folks are talking about things shaping up to be a really bad winter, sometimes they hit it and we get a really cold winter, but there are the other times when it doesn’t pan out to be all that bad.

The nostalgia part of my mood this morning is of course, that today is September 11, exactly 25 years since the events in Manhattan and the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania – what a tragic series of events! Since that awful day, lots of people have suspected there was more to the story than we’ve been told, and like the Kennedy assassination, we won’t find out for sure until all the suspected actors are dead and gone. Others believe the official narrative about some terrorists with utility knives having pulled off the deed. I’m on the side of the folks who think something underhanded happened involving people in the US government and likely some from an unnamed foreign country.

Last night I was speaking on the phone with one of my readers who calls me from time to time and we got into a discussion about 9/11 and he’s of the same mind I am about it being an inside job, or at least a malevolent performance by the CIA and Mossad. Without concrete proof, it’s hard to convince most folks that it was a dirty deed by spooks, but if one chooses to look at the available evidence and listen to the accidental giveaways by some prominent people, such as Larry Silverstein’s famous “we’re going to pull it” statement about a building (building 7) that could not possibly have come down (or gotten “pulled”) the way it did without having been pre detonated, and he said it before it came down, it would be hard not to believe it was pre-ordained by some powerful people.

I didn’t set out to do this post to try and convince anyone about the true events of that day 25 years ago, but simply to remember with solemn reverence and genuflect on the losses of all the lives. To experience once again the emptiness one experiences at the sudden departure of so many souls from our world. The folks who were killed in that tragedy were normal citizens going about their daily business, never for a moment aware of what they were about to experience. Well, the ones who were killed didn’t know beforehand, but there is ample evidence that some people knew. The ones who ate breakfast every morning in one of the towers – every morning that is except the morning of 9/11. There are so many stories about foreknowledge of the events of 9/11 that becomes redundant to mention all of them, but they all seem to rotate around a certain group of people – including the ones who made substantial money from the tragedy. And then there are the ones who no longer needed to account for large sums of money that had come up missing, but here I go again.

The light rain we are getting this morning is only the second few drops we’ve had in a month or more and it’s been extremely hot and dry! It’s just not supposed to be that hot here in the Ozarks. The little wild birds are singing and fluttering around in the mist, and you can tell they’re enjoying the break in the heat. Sometimes I wonder if people like Donald Trump have ever taken the opportunity to go for a walk in the woods and listen to the birds and watch squirrels and such. Something tells me he doesn’t have any idea that world even exists. He grew up as a spoiled rich brat born with a silver spoon in his mouth and never watched deer grazing next to the woods as daylight broke with thrushes grumbling. He missed a lot and he doesn’t even know it. He’s never knelt by a stream and thanked God for all of the beauty and solitude he beheld. He has truly missed the real world, the one we were put here to enjoy.

Rich men know nothing of decent stewardship of the earth and responsible behavior towards our fellow creatures. The buildings that were wantonly destroyed on 9/11 sent tons of airborne asbestos into the air around New York and people are dying to this day from lung diseases caused by breathing the dust. The men who perpetrated the tragedy don’t care about trivial things like thousands of innocent people being killed or the great swathes of people in Manhattan being exposed to deadly carcinogens – things that do not make for profit. None of them have ever allowed their consciences to become exposed to anything that doesn’t affect their bank accounts, especially natural things that God put here for the enjoyment of normal, decent people.

I hope readers get a chance to see this post while it’s still 9/11. Maybe reading it on the anniversary will give it more impact to initiate genuine reflection. Take a moment to thank God for His presence in the lives of those who survived and in the hearts of those who lost loved ones as they lived through their grief. It was truly a horrible day in New York, DC, and Shanksville, PA. Those who perpetrated the act will surely answer to the Highest Authority before all is said and done.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK