Interconnectedness and other 9/11 lessons | Letters

Published 2:29 pm Monday, September 12, 2011

Like a spider’s web, if one drop of dew moves on the web, the whole web moves.

Here is a good word for this: interconnectedness.

Similarities are more important than differences. Especially in this world of speed information exchanges, we should try hard to be “one.”

We are not alone and we owe each other in everything we do and we get. We are grateful for the food, air, water, fire, Mother Earth, friends, families, animals, trees, flowers, stones, computers, cars, houses and everything else.

We are all one depending on each other on this Mother Earth.

Even the whole galaxy will run for the wrong direction if we do not behave right. I urge you to make three people happy every day (at least) for your part with a beautiful smiling face and kind words. Be grateful for everything.

Here is a poem I made after the 9/11 tragedy (titled “Unity”):

Snow is falling

On my humble garden.

Also on the mansions of rich people.

Snow is covering the roofs of

Christian churches and Islamic mosques.

They are all painted

With the white of innocence.

Chizuko Smith, Federal Way