this isn't the day to talk about this
(part seven)


"if not us, then who? if not now, then when? will there be a better day for it tomorrow or next year? will it be less dangerous then? will someone else's children have to risk their lives instead of us risking ours" - john lewis

how long is long enough to mourn and remember a tragedy you are not directly related to? who sets the arbitrary time line which defines what is appropriate now and what is appropriate later?

as i mentioned last night, there are those people who genuinely are making efforts to connect on some spiritual level with the families in newtown. this attention they are offering is undivided and unwavering. i say again, the world needs those people. for those people, if they need to wait and have this conversation later, god bless them, because they bless us all.

i choose to connect on a different level. i choose to hear and see and read about and think about and be horrified of the events in newtown. i keep those children in my mind as i type these words. i do not dishonor their being taken from their families. i take offense to it. as we all do.

yesterday was absolutely the day to continue (not begin or pause or stop) this conversation. that a highlighted and brutal event broadened our scope of horror towards gun violence in our country was inevitable. that it didn't happen again today only means we are lucky.

has anything changed yet?