I was going to compliment your photo, and then I read further. I want what you want. To me, your words are a prayer. They should be spoken and shared. Hugs to your daughter, too, during such a difficult and sad time.
I appreciate you doing the audio recording, I’m sure it wasn’t easy. It makes it more personal for me. Thank you for being a sane and thoughtful voice in the face of such profound loss.
I worked in schools for more than 30 years, and I have been only a few degrees removed from several school shootings. I understand your feelings, all that you have named here. Just remembering them now brings up tears. Yesterday I stopped at a shopping center and could hear shrill whistles while inside my car. I saw two women blowing furiously and filming the back corner of the lot. They told me ICE agents were there, that they'd already picked up one person without a warrant. That was my first close encounter with this kind of violence, and it shook me, even though I was several degrees removed. Violence ripples. I am grateful your daughter is physically OK. I share your vision for the world I wish we all lived in, and I hope the exercise of writing it was a balm to repair the rupture for you.
Sigh. That's what I did when I was finished reading. As always, you bring me facts and interpretations with heart. Thank you. You add your humanity.
The shooting numbers are astonishing. May I inquire what your, or the, definition of a 'mass' shooting is? Not that it matters, but I guess it mattered enough to ask because those numbers seem so disheartening and unseemly and then a child kills the parents that raised him and I, too, want to understand better why there are these unending turns to violence, if that's possible. ~J
I was going to compliment your photo, and then I read further. I want what you want. To me, your words are a prayer. They should be spoken and shared. Hugs to your daughter, too, during such a difficult and sad time.
AMEN.....AND AMEN!!! Powerfully and faithfully stated!
I appreciate you doing the audio recording, I’m sure it wasn’t easy. It makes it more personal for me. Thank you for being a sane and thoughtful voice in the face of such profound loss.
So timely, so personal, so wise, and healing. Thank you.
To lose loved ones, life,
to hatred fueled by fear, “faith.”
Pain like no other.
...
“Always... personal.”
May manifestos move love.
Axial tilt leans light.
I worked in schools for more than 30 years, and I have been only a few degrees removed from several school shootings. I understand your feelings, all that you have named here. Just remembering them now brings up tears. Yesterday I stopped at a shopping center and could hear shrill whistles while inside my car. I saw two women blowing furiously and filming the back corner of the lot. They told me ICE agents were there, that they'd already picked up one person without a warrant. That was my first close encounter with this kind of violence, and it shook me, even though I was several degrees removed. Violence ripples. I am grateful your daughter is physically OK. I share your vision for the world I wish we all lived in, and I hope the exercise of writing it was a balm to repair the rupture for you.
Sigh. That's what I did when I was finished reading. As always, you bring me facts and interpretations with heart. Thank you. You add your humanity.
The shooting numbers are astonishing. May I inquire what your, or the, definition of a 'mass' shooting is? Not that it matters, but I guess it mattered enough to ask because those numbers seem so disheartening and unseemly and then a child kills the parents that raised him and I, too, want to understand better why there are these unending turns to violence, if that's possible. ~J