December 14th, 2012
guns guns guns
“When schools anticipate shootings enough to have lock-down drills, it’s hard to pretend they are isolated incidents. It’s a national crisis.”
We all need guns but we don’t need mental health care and an entire elementary school of children experience a mass shooting, with so many dead. What?
(It’s not that I think access to mental health care is simple, or that banning guns is the trick, but…there has to be something better out there, somehow. Whatever that is, there just has to be a better way.)
Oh ugh. Oh awful.
Such a tricky planet.
I mentioned a couple entries ago that I had a friend about whom I was worried. Things did not go in her favor. She is a pretty amazing person and will make it through – far stronger and more graceful than I could ever be – but nature, it’s just too tricky and too unfair. Unpredictable and unfair. Still thinking of her and her family.
You just have to be grateful for each good moment when it comes. Lucky for my household we have had quite a few of those this week. So much more happiness than I could have imagined, it almost feels too good to be true. But all you can do is enjoy what you have while you’ve got it, I guess.
Yesterday was one of those. A busy day of work but lots of fun celebrating Jeff’s birthday too. Topped off by a hilarious, bizarre drawing by my hilarious, bizarre niece. It’s kind of crazy just how related to her I feel sometimes…haha. (“She thinks food doesn’t want to be eaten?” “You don’t?!”)
Elementary school kids drawing “APLZ’s” and “BNNA’s” and “STROBAREEZ’s”; elementary school kids getting shot. What the hell.