I started to write an article about the WTC memorial finalists, but Maureen Dowd of the New York Times summed it up more articulately Sunday in her editorial Unbearable Lightness of Memory.

The eight designs for a memorial at ground zero, gleaming with hanging candles and translucent tubes and reflecting pools and the smiling faces of those killed on 9/11, aim to transcend. And they succeed. They transcend terror. They have the banality of no evil. They represent the triumph of atmosphere over atrocity, mood over meaning. The designs are more concerned with the play of light on water than the play of darkness on life.