Word: routineã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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When Jenkins suddenly died on the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 last Tuesday, the 45-year-old lover of cats, fine cuisine, Puccini and old movie posters left his family, close friends, coworkers and comfortable neighborhood shocked and off-balance. Even as they continue with their day-to-day routine??€”walking the dog, playing with the children, grabbing sandwiches at Oxford Spa—Jenkins’ neighbors have spent the past nine days unsure, struggling to regain their footing after last week’s terrorist attacks touched them, quite literally, in their own backyard...
...drink. I breathe. I even manage a few laughs here and there, a few moments of happy oblivion. Routine is what we use to keep our minds from overtaking us. Forget talk—it trivializes. Forget silence—it magnifies. Only routine??€”the calmness of physical denial, the okay-ness of everyday motions—reclaims for me the repetition that is normality...