Dear Danielle,
So glad you are ok - and I was very touched by your obvious love and care
for your mother: A therapist may be better for you as well as her but as I
am in the UK I cant help - I do hope you find one.
Take care
All the best
Audrey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danielle Fraenkel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: condolences to all my British friends
> Dear Paul,
> This is Danielle. Thanks for asking about me. Before I say anything
> else, I want to send my condolences to all my British friends. Many of
> the victims were from England.
>
> We had a number of scary hours when we could not find our daughter, but
> she was smart enough to walk home from her place of work downtown to my
> 92 year old mother's apartment, approximately 4-6 km from the WTC. My
> daughter has been expressing her distress, but my mother is not sleeping
> and suffering quietly. She was displaced as a child during WWI and
> survived the Holocaust as an adult. Now this.
>
> Mommy says she loves talking to me. I try my best, yet I wonder once
> again if it would be better to find a therapist she can talk to on a
> regular basis. So far she has been unwilling to speak to someone who has
> not experienced life (her words), but after this attack she may feel
> different. Is there anyone on the list who knows of therapists on the
> upper west side of Manahattan who can work with articulate Jewish elders
> who appear strong even though their hearts are breaking? The best of
> all possible worlds would be finding someone who would come to the
> house.
>
> Strangely enough this event has helped me realize why I have not written
> to the list serve in months. We had such a profoundly meaningful
> LivingDance experience in Corfu -one that I have wanted to share, but
> one for which I could not find the words. I feared that words would
> tarnish the depth of the experience and the power of LivingDance.
>
> Oddly, I had the same experience with the attack. I could not find the
> words to describe the terror of not knowing, the grim horror of feeling
> powerless. Now I struggle with the fear that we will go to war. The
> hawkish talk appalls me.
>
> Thanks again for asking about me. It feels good to be remembered.
>
> Shalom/Peace,
> Danielle
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> Danielle L. Fraenkel, Ph.D., ADTR, NCC, LPC
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> Paul Carney wrote:
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> > Hopefully Danielle is OK. Has anyone heard from Pat as well?
> >
> > =====
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Paul
> >
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