10 Years

I drove under a huge American flag yesterday. They were displaying it for today. It's weird to me. I don't really have any words or insightful thoughts about this anniversary. I don't examine the feelings that form when I see magazine covers of the children whose parents died that day. It seems a bit exploitative. I don't think that many people would share that viewpoint with me though. What's the media if not a machine to manipulate emotions though?
In other, slightly less dire news, I finished "Catching Fire". The Second book in the Hunger Game Trilogy. I liked it better than the first! I kept thinking after reading the first book that there didn't seem to be much left in the story, or a direction that the author could take that were centered on the games. Seemed to solve that problem rather quickly. I'm already a couple of chapters into the third book. Not starting out great, and I'm beginning to lose patience with this girl getting hurt so.... badly and yet coming out rather unscathed. But those are just the beginning thoughts. I felt the same at the start of the second book and it turned out rather entertaining!! We'll see.
I've scrapped the painting I wrote about a few entries back. Not exactly, but I'm starting over on it while keeping the subject the same. I also have another idea for a triptych painting.
Everything else I'm holding my breath on.