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The New Jerusalem

Wednesday, September11, 2002

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NOTE: Here is a link to a page of MullPhotos taken at the ceremony commemorating the September 11 attacks at the Pentagon. Be warned - it has 13 photos and will take some time to load on a dial-up line.

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• TITLE: "The New Jerusalem" From the Carly Simon song, "Let the River Run" which won the music trifecta in 1989: an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy for "Working Girl" which starred Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver.

  Here are the lyrics:

  We're coming to the edge, running on the water
  coming through the fog, your sons and daughters
  
  Let the river run
  let all the dreamers wake the nation
  Come, the New Jerusalem.
  
  Silver cities rise
  the morning lights the streets that lead them
  and sirens call them on with a song
  
  It's asking for the taking
  trembling, shaking
  Oh, my heart is aching
  
  We're coming to the edge, running on the water
  coming through the fog, your sons and daughters
  
  We the great and small
  stand on a star
  and blaze a trail of desire
  through the darkening dawn
  
  It's asking for the taking
  Come run with me now
  the sky is the color of blue
  you've never even seen in the eyes of your lover
  
  Oh, my heart is aching
  We're coming to the edge, running on the water
  coming through the fog, your sons and daughters
  
  It's asking for the taking
  trembling, shaking
  Oh, my heart is aching
  
  We're coming to the edge, running on the water
  coming through the fog, your sons and daughters
  
  Let the river run
  let all the dreamers wake the nation
  Come, the New Jerusalem

  The line: "The sky is a color of blue you've never seen in the eyes of your lover." is exactly what the sky over Washington, DC looked like last September 11.
         
  The sky over the Potomac River yesterday was not quite as clear.

• "... metes ..." From Merriam-Webster's unabridged:

  Function: transitive verb
  Etymology: Middle English meten, from Old English metan; akin to Old Saxon metan: to measure, Old Frisian meta, Middle Dutch meten, Old High German mezzan to measure, Old Norse meta to value, Gothic mitan to measure, Latin modus measure, moderation, manner, meditari to meditate, modestus moderate, modest, moderari to moderate, Old Irish midiur I judge, Greek medesthai to be mindful of, medimnos grain measure; basic meaning: to measure
  1 archaic a: to find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of by any rule or standard : MEASURE (metes the thin air and weighs the flying sound -- George Crabbe died 1832) b : to determine the value of : APPRAISE (a pattern or a measure ... by which his Grace must mete the lives of others -- Shakespeare)
  2 : to assign by measure : deal out : ALLOT, APPORTION -- usually used with out (mete out punishment) (so has my portion been meted out to me -- Oscar Wilde)

  
  
  

             A soldier's tomb
  (MullPhotos: Rich Galen)
  
  The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary Soldier is located in the cemetery behind the Old Presbyterian Meeting House at 321 S. Fairfax in Old Town Alexandria, VA.

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  Here are the Mullings from the post-September 11 period of last year:

  September, 2001

  
  09/12/2001 - The Death of Simple Things
  09/14/2001 - Our Flag Was Still There
  09/15/2001 - One-Sixty-Four
  09/17/2001 - Ask Not ...
  09/19/2001 - Collateral Damage
  09/21/2001 - We Will Not Tire. We Will Not Falter. We Will Not Fail.
  09/24/2001 - Commonplace
  09/26/2001 - Find Them
  09/28/2001 - Sky King

  October, 2001

  
  10/01/2001 - Mayberry
  Travelogue - Virginia Car Tax
  10/03/2001 - Come Fly With Me
  10/05/2001 - Be Careful What You Wish For
  The Atlanta Travelogue (the day Reagan National Airport re-opened):
  Part 1: The Trip to Reagan National
  Part 2: Getting Through Reagan National
  Part 3: The Flight to Atlanta
  Part 4: Atlanta: The Home of the Braves
             and the Land of the Free Local Calls
  Part 5: I Find the Lines
  Part 6: The Plane to Washington
  10/08/2001 - And Now, the Taliban Will Pay a Price
  10/10/2001 - I'm Not Gonna Tell You
  10/12/2001 - Modern D-Day Coverage ____________________________________________________________________________________