And they can see no reasonsWell. Back to the regular drivel tomorrow, I think.
Cause there are no reasons
I mostly knit, sometimes crochet or cross-stitch. I read, a lot. I love cats. I love hockey, especially my no-longer-local team, the Boston Bruins. Want more? Read on.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Just ... No Words
I've been shaken all day, since the news started to come out about the school shooting in Connecticut. Any mass shooting is awful, but an elementary school just seems too awful to bear. And just before Christmas, all those lives lost, the families shattered ... there aren't words for how utterly awful it is. I watched the coverage unfolding online, wanting to know why, even while I couldn't imagine any sane reason there could be. Saying "mental illness" feels facile, but what else can you call it? I was hearing the lines from the Boomtown Rats song going through my head:
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I've been in tears off and on all day. It's just too horrible.
ReplyDeleteReading about it is hard enough, but pictures--I just can't look at them. And the worst part was that somehow some of our older students found out about it during the day (internet use, probably). How do you explain it to them when you don't understand it, yourself?
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