I know some of you were experiencing the 9/11 ceremonies in the city yesterday, as you do every year, while others of you explored the meanings and associations of the day in your own ways.
I am exploring the concept of tradition, as with the reading of the names on 9/11 that has developed and the way in which it has become a touchstone for people for over two decades.
But then, as we think about tradition, over cycles of seasons, decades, centuries, millenia, etc., then we must think of how it anchors us to the past or pushes us forward. How does tradition serve us as a people? How do we find comfort in it? Conversely, do some find tradition confining and narrowing, and seek to escape it?
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