Shaking the Foundation
Shooting in the school, up the street! Enough to rattle the entire city and get world attention. Some 20 kids in the hospital, and the shooter dead. Other details not so clear yet, but for many right now, life sucks.
Streets blocked off and well chaos! DS had to walk past it on his way home. No way to avoid it. His high school, 4 blocks away. Kids on their cell phones checking on their older brothers, sisters and friends.
Frantic pedestrians asking for directions to the college to check up on their loved ones. Still to this point, not enough details to assess what kind of incident this was. Police still holding many details. Downtown, 6 city blocks around the school, cars being stopped and questioned about their whereabouts.
Tomorrow we’ll turn the page, send him back to school and hope this is an isolated incident. Life can get pretty scary sometimes in the big city. Yet still deemed one of the safest. This is the third incident in 15 years.
Yes tomorrow we’ll turn the page …
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At first you feel it can’t be, that sort of thing doesn’t happen in my country? Am I right? Then you realise it just did. We had a similar thing happen at Hungerford in England, that is why we have such draconian gun laws, but people still get shot and then there’s the knife culture …
It only takes one, and for all the beautiful vessels the potter made, it only takes one cracked pot to break innumerable others.
Thinking of the victims, the families and everyone touched by this terrible event.
Alex & Suze
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