“entwined”
© 2007 kelly angard
Everything connects to everything;
therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
- Marianne Williamson
I started out writing my “monday musing” post this morning about unexpected kindness…but I stopped as soon as I heard about the shooting at Virginia Tech. Living here in Colorado, not far from the sites of two horrible school shootings, news of another campus tragedy hits too close to home…and a familiar sense of pain and shock reverberates throughout the community. I just couldn’t bring myself to go on about a few recent acts of unexpected kindess I’ve experienced lately knowing that there were a number of families who were surely experiencing one of the worst days of their lives.
Maybe my original idea of writing about unexpected kindess wouldn’t have been so bad. Maybe it’s what we need to hear about and remind ourselves of at a time like this so that we don’t look at our neighbors with paranoia or live under a cloud of fear. I don’t know what the “right” thing to do is…all I know is that I am so very sad…and even more thankful for the unexpected kindesses I’ve experienced lately.
I think that when something like this happens, we all ask “why”? We struggle trying to make sense out of the senseless…and wonder, “what is the lesson here”? I look at my middle school-aged daughter and realize that this is the third school shooting she has heard about in the past six or seven months. And I don’t know what to say to her so that she will feel safe going to school tomorrow.
Maybe my original idea of writing about unexpected kindess wouldn’t have been so bad. Maybe it’s what we need to hear about and remind ourselves of at a time like this so that we don’t look at our neighbors with paranoia or live under a cloud of fear. I don’t know what the “right” thing to do is…all I know is that I am so very sad…and even more thankful for the unexpected kindesses I’ve experienced lately.
i just wanted to say hi.
and i hope you’re doing well.
and i’m glad you’ve experienced kindness lately.
you deserve nothin’ but the best
<3 you, girl!
i don’t think there is any right thing, sometimes the pain and emotion of this world is too much for me and i want to hide away but i know that its more important to add kindness, care and beauty to it especially when something like this happens …
sending you hugs …
It is shocking. The video and photos of that poor, disturbed kid made me want to be sick. I watch him and think, what twisted stuff is going on in his mind. Tragic, through and through.
btw, THAT is a fabulous photo ;)