7/7/2005: so it turns out this is still pretty visceral for me

[nanila]

Today is the tenth anniversary of the (most recent) London bombings.

I was living in Camden at the time. My LJ posts on that day are here.

If you'll excuse me, I think I'll be spending the rest of the day cuddling my baby son and watching the Tour de France.

Comments

[rmc28]

*hugs*, take care.

And hey, I didn't know you knew Sander and Jade! Tony worked with Sander in San Francisco, and we went to their wedding :-)

[nanila]

Thank you. We got through it and today is a new, good, busy day.

Thank you also for telling me about the unexpected intersection of friendship groups. It made my day much better. :)

[samskeyti]

*hugs London*

[nanila]

That's a biiiiig hug. :) Thanks for that.

[cosmolinguist]

<3

[nanila]

♥ Thank you.

[sfred]

*sends love*

[nanila]

*gratefully accepts love*
*sends more love back*

[yvi]

*hugs*

I modded the LJ community that you linked to that day.

[nanila]

*hugs back*

Thanks for telling me that. It comforts me greatly to know that someone so generous of spirit became part of my circle much later.

[untonuggan]

<3

[nanila]

♥ Thank you.

[silveradept]

Those events are always fresh on their anniversaries. Here's hoping that the world built afterward will no longer have incidents like those.

[nanila]

Those events are always fresh on their anniversaries.

It's always especially "fun" when they blindside you with that particular quality. I often forget to brace myself on certain significant dates, like my grandfather's death, and find myself flattened unexpectedly. :/

I share your hope.

[silveradept]

Some of my significant days have made it to my calendar so that I can be aware of them and how they might affect me or my partner. It helps, sometimes.

[nanila]

This is a very good idea. We keep a wall calendar for shared itinerary items. I think I'll mark down a few dates. Thank you.

[zellieh]

I wasn't in London on the day, but I have other friends who were. *offers you a hug* I hope the day went well for you. Personally, I've been watching Wimbledon.

[nanila]

*gratefully accepts hug*

I got through it. I spent a lot of time after the Tour coverage making a nice dinner and pudding for the family, which helped. Wimbledon has been good too, although flipping between them has been a little nerve-wracking!

[emelbe]

Oof. I'm sorry yesterday was so hard. I hope extended Keiki snuggle time helped a lot.

[nanila]

It did help! As did your enthusiasm for onward adventuring. :)

[omnipotent]

What an awful thing to go through. I'm glad you were safe on that fateful day, but I'm sorry you (and the other Londonites) experienced it to begin with.

I hope spending time with your son helped you feel better. *hugs*

[nanila]

I was really new to the UK at the time - less than a year in residence - so that added an extra layer of terror on top of the rest since I was still experiencing a fair amount of culture shock.

It did, thank you. Yesterday was better, and today was almost back to normal. *hugs back*

[lark_ascends]

*belated hugs*

[nanila]

*belated hugs gratefully accepted & returned*