Heartbroken

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I have struggled whether to interrupt the joyous celebration of food with a harsher realty. But I think I will.

I have been nauseous for the last three days. Literally. And I thought I was just getting sick. But tonight I realized it is my sad, humble and completely inadequate reaction to the terrible violent murders of 20 children and 6 brave educators in Newtown.

Many comments have been made over the last four days. But I thought of this tonight. Two sets of parents put their children in graves today. I know…I just know…they went home after the funerals and felt a powerful pull to return to the cemetery and to sit at the graves, warming their children.

My beautiful boy is home from college right now. He shares a name with one of the precious dead boys. And I worry over him just as if he were 6.

I have cooked with Noah for the last four days and it was all the more precious because I could hug him and hold him close. But sick to my stomach, I can’t imagine the pain of losing a child so young as those incredible children at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Yes, let’s please gain some sanity about assault weapons. Why are they even allowed in this country? I don’t understand that. And let’s also gain some resolve to treat mental illness quickly without putting troubled loved ones in jail to get some relief for them. Let’s please let those politicians – those hogs in the trough – get their noses out of the slop and do something honorable.

I am sick to my stomach. I am heartbroken.


One Comment

  1. Julie
    JulieReply
    December 20, 2012 at 8:49 am

    well said. thank you

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