Oh! The Humanity!
I think I have to touch on the Va. Tech catastrophe. Living so close to Blacksburg and having such close ties there, it is almost beyond belief.
My wife is particularly hard hit. It is very much her family's college. Her father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces have gone or are going there. It has been a real mess and she is still crying.
You try to wonder why something like this happens and you can only take solace in the fact that there are some things that are beyond explanation and cannot be fathomed using rational thought.
I grieve tonight for all of those poor children, yes when you reach my age they are certainly children, and their families. I grieve for my state and for the university that I hold so dear.
I long for yesterday.
Jim M
My wife is particularly hard hit. It is very much her family's college. Her father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces have gone or are going there. It has been a real mess and she is still crying.
You try to wonder why something like this happens and you can only take solace in the fact that there are some things that are beyond explanation and cannot be fathomed using rational thought.
I grieve tonight for all of those poor children, yes when you reach my age they are certainly children, and their families. I grieve for my state and for the university that I hold so dear.
I long for yesterday.
Jim M
posted by Libby Spencer at 7:13 PM
4 Comments:
Being close by, just over the border in NC, I know bucolic Blacksburg and I am so shocked and saddened by this tragedy. I've been watching the news most of the afternoon as the death toll kept rising, realizing most of them would be college students. My heart grieves for all the families and friends and survivors as they try to make sense of this massacre.
A Symptom of our "Chain Letter Society"?
Read an analysis of the influences in our "Chain Letter Society" that may be precipitating events like the tragedy at Virginia Tech and how our focus on winning and being number one may be fostering a generation of children with fully inadequate coping skills who have a misguided sense of self-worth...here:
www.thoughttheater.com
Thanks for your comments and daniel for the link. I will read it in detail.
I'm just hearing about this. I was working all day and there's a huge power outage here.
How bloody awful.
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