The Fall of the Wall

[The Lovely Mrs. tod]

I've thought about this so much today. I was a kid when we woke up one morning and there was a great big wall across the middle of a city. Growing up it was just life, two Germanys, two Berlins.

November, 1989 and I was 8 months pregnant with our youngest. We were moving into a bigger place and I was cleaning the new empty apt, my 14 month old and a black and white portable tv plugged in for company. I stopped to see what the news break was. I was overwhelmed. I could not imagine this new world, this world without the Wall. My kids would never know what it was, it would just be part of their history class. I never forgot that morning.

A piece of that wall is sitting on the table next to my desk, it's one of my prize possessions. I have no idea why I've always felt this emotional about it. I just roll with it.