The latest school shooting in Texas weighs heavily on my mind and in my heart. I am grieving for those poor children and their families, the teachers and their families. I can’t imagine what this kind of loss feels like!
Also,
My daughter is a third grade teacher in an inner-city school. She is acutely aware of all the shootings that occur in the neighborhood surrounding the school. Right now our city is in a swatch of shootings and killings based on drug territory, family and gangs shooting each other in retribution. I hold my breath every time I hear of a shooting in her school’s neighborhood. I am terrified that one of these retribution shootings will go after a child in her school, and not limit themselves to just that one child. (They just gunned/killed an 18 year old mother of a one year old, who was gf of a dealer who stepped on rival land to sell drugs. They tried to kill her last week but only shot her. Oh, she was pregnant too) I live in a city where violence drugs and crime are the number one industry. I am hyper vigilant about violence. I now work on the highest drug infested/gang related/shooting violent street in my town.
Yes, violence is on my mind
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Pole bachit, a lis chuye.
The field sees, the forest hears
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