Today is the seventh anniversary of 9/11. I learned about it via CB radio - I was listening to truckers instead of commercial radio and heard someone say a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers. A few minutes later, the terrible news came that a second plane had hit the other tower and that a third airliner struck the Pentagon. It was a mild, sunny September day here in Nashville, but the rest of the day things seemed shadowed as in the midst of an eclipse.

A Marine friend sent me the following video, recorded by cowboy poet Baxter Black. It's a reminder of the blessings we have, that blessings can be yanked away in an instant, and that many, many people are trying very hard to do just that. Fortunately, many are trying to prevent it, as well.