The emotional roller-coaster in this city pervades all our lives. Here are three pictures from this week that run the gamut.
Tuesday evening was cold and misty, and I had a chance to be a referee on a soccer field that was covered with mud. By the end of the match these 11-year-old boys were also covered with mud. Do you think they had fun?
On Wednesday morning the Copley "T" stop (part of our local transit system) was reopened for the first time since the Boston Marathon bombing. There was silence in Copley Square as people dropped by the makeshift memorial that had been set up in honor of people killed and harmed by the bomb blasts just a few yards away. This part of the memorial made me gasp.
On Thursday, 2000 people went to the World Trade Center in South Boston to take their oaths of U.S. citizenship. I peered through the glass doors as they raised their hands and swore allegience to their new country. The judge presiding said, "Don't ever believe that you are less of a US citizen than people born here."
Tuesday evening was cold and misty, and I had a chance to be a referee on a soccer field that was covered with mud. By the end of the match these 11-year-old boys were also covered with mud. Do you think they had fun?
On Wednesday morning the Copley "T" stop (part of our local transit system) was reopened for the first time since the Boston Marathon bombing. There was silence in Copley Square as people dropped by the makeshift memorial that had been set up in honor of people killed and harmed by the bomb blasts just a few yards away. This part of the memorial made me gasp.
On Thursday, 2000 people went to the World Trade Center in South Boston to take their oaths of U.S. citizenship. I peered through the glass doors as they raised their hands and swore allegience to their new country. The judge presiding said, "Don't ever believe that you are less of a US citizen than people born here."
