“The big question…is how to hope and what to hope *for.* We are citizens of a corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death and of being buried under the weight…How to… get hold of the essential… and above all, how to recognize the essential.”
From my reading this morning. I‘m checking in. There was a shooting at Brown University last night. My husband‘s charity cover show in PVD was canceled. He made it home safely. ❤️🩹
Amiable It‘s so mind-numbingly sad and heartbreaking.. Today is 13 years since the Sandy Hook shootings and we‘re still doing nothing as a country to prevent this. 2d
monalyisha @Amiable I agree whole (and broken) heartedly. 2d
AnnCrystal This normalcy of violence is unexceptionable 😢💝🫂💝. 2d
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monalyisha @Amiable One of our senators (Tiara Mack, who is a shining gem) wrote about it in her newsletter today. Like me, she was also thinking about the kids who are calling and texting about their grief today instead of setting up dates with their friends to frolic in the snow. This might be the first snowfall for some of them, who came to New England for school from faraway climes, and now the magic will always be linked to tragedy. It‘s so wrong. 2d
AmyG At this point if you vote for the party that doesn‘t care….you support this. It‘s unconscionable. 2d
JenReadsAlot Just heartbreaking yet again... 2d
kspenmoll It‘s horrific. All of it. Our nation‘s inability to understand it is guns that are killing our children. 2d
dabbe And if I see or hear one more politician say “Our prayers are with“ .... I'll frickin' go ballistic. We don't need your prayers. We need gun laws, you idiots. And now a shooting in Australia as well. I just can't anymore. 💔 2d
CBee No words here - just profound sadness. Very glad your husband made it home safely 💚 2d
Amiable @monalyisha I saw an interview with the Brown student who also witnessed the shooting at Parkland. She‘s 20 years old and has now survived not one but TWO school shootings. WTF are we doing?? 2d
monalyisha @Amiable How do you get over that sense that you are not safe — and that nobody cares? 2d
ncsufoxes My son is at URI. He was studying in the library when they announced what was happening at Brown (since it isn‘t really that far away). He packed up & went to his dorm. He said that he felt safer in his dorm. The sad realization is that said to me “if the gunman in an off chance came here I‘d rather be in my dorm.” Isn‘t a sad statement that our kids have to plan escape routes & where the safest place is? Instead of fully focusing on studying. 2d
ncsufoxes He also pointed out that URI posts their exam schedules online & he wondered if they do the same thing at Brown. It‘s just so sad, frustrating, & horrific every time it happens. He‘s 6-7 hours away from us & I worry constantly about something like this happening. 2d
ncsufoxes @Amiable my son went through a school lock down when he was in high school. A student brought a screwdriver to school & tried to harm himself. That was scary to be texts from the school for the duration of the incident as they kept updating us what was happening. They treated the lock down like an active shooter. I‘m sure that incident plays back in my son‘s mind at a moment like yesterday. 2d
monalyisha @ncsufoxes That must be scary, to have him far from you. 💓 2d
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