September 11

The news media is filled again, as it is every year, with recollections of September 11 - how we recall with clarity where we were, what we were thinking, what we were doing on that blindingly bright morning in 2001. "It was THE day our world changed forever," said one newscaster. My mother used to tell me she recalled perfectly where she was on December 7 when she heard the news of Pearl Harbor. "I was having a chocolate sundae with my girlfriends at the Purple Cow Sweet Shoppe," she said.

For her, that was THE day that changed her world.

What we so often fail to realize is that it doesn't have to be a tragedy to change our world, ourselves. Every day can be THE day we resolve to begin again to make our little corner of life better - to work toward leaving the world a bit better than we found it. All it takes is the resolve to make it so.