Six years. My God. The world before 9/11, the fool's paradise of my youth, seems so very far away now, yet at the same time I boggle at how quickly the last decade (ten years since I graduated high school, a convenient benchmark) has come and gone.

Six years. Do you remember the old world? Mourn for the murdered and remember them always, but lament not the passing of time, 'tis the way of this world of woe and wonder.