I started today with other ideas for a post. This certainly is not a complaint about anything to do with this blog or my day. I had a fine day.
Not so for too many people in Boston today. As of tonight's reports three innocent (one child) people were killed by bomb blasts. Many people lost parts or whole limbs. Everyone lost a bit more of our feeling of security and peace.
I'm not closely connected to Boston. I have visited the city, mostly on business. I shared a great weekend there with one daughter that happened to coincide with a tall ship festival.
The news of this senseless violence has bothered me since I read it on the internet. I wonder why. I didn't know anyone there. Maybe I'm just human. A father who can't imagine the pain of losing a child.
Writing this post is helping me not focus more on the news reports. I will watch more but hopefully it will not be like September 11, 2001 when I turned into a news junkie. (Here's my 10 year anniversary post about that much bigger senseless killing.)
I wish the victims and their families were able to finish the fine day they were probably enjoying. Fine days do get ripped away for you by tragedy. It is worst when the tragedy is a senseless attack by another human. I pray the wounded recover quickly, the families find strength to continue their support of each other.
Not so for too many people in Boston today. As of tonight's reports three innocent (one child) people were killed by bomb blasts. Many people lost parts or whole limbs. Everyone lost a bit more of our feeling of security and peace.
I'm not closely connected to Boston. I have visited the city, mostly on business. I shared a great weekend there with one daughter that happened to coincide with a tall ship festival.
The news of this senseless violence has bothered me since I read it on the internet. I wonder why. I didn't know anyone there. Maybe I'm just human. A father who can't imagine the pain of losing a child.
Writing this post is helping me not focus more on the news reports. I will watch more but hopefully it will not be like September 11, 2001 when I turned into a news junkie. (Here's my 10 year anniversary post about that much bigger senseless killing.)
I wish the victims and their families were able to finish the fine day they were probably enjoying. Fine days do get ripped away for you by tragedy. It is worst when the tragedy is a senseless attack by another human. I pray the wounded recover quickly, the families find strength to continue their support of each other.
