…there is a season.
Today’s post will not be about the business related epiphany I had earlier this week. Rather, I’d like to take a moment to be quiet and acknowledge the unbearable tragedy that happened yesterday. At 11:30am I was on a call with a client who happens to live in Newtown, actually Sandy Hook, CT. She said she’d just heard that there was something terrible happening at the neighborhood school a short distance from her house. Something about gunfire, possibly a death.
Neither of us had any idea of the horrific scope of the incident, nor would we have had any more words to say then if we had. If there is such a word, it was un-contemplatable, the extent of the sad, devastating behavior of one individual and the titanic loss of families, a community and our country.
Sometimes being in silence and staying in the grief of the moment are the only actions called for. That’s the season I’m in right now. Please join me here for a moment if you’re there too.
Jane, I spent last night with my kids; my youngest made 20 luminaries with paper bags and votives, which we all set up on our front lawn, we went and sat at St. Rose Church in Sandy Hook, and as my oldest was getting ready for bed she voiced what most of us are feeling throughout this horrific event “I feel so helpless. I want to DO something more.” Sometimes, and I guess this is one of them, the best thing you can do is to just be there, hold close your nearest and dearest and let everything else take a back seat.
I’m with you Jane. I have not posted, tweeted, or made any calls. I need to process and try to stop shaking my head in disbelief.
@Suzen
I’m with you. The luminaria are a beautiful, tangible demonstration of the grief.
@Scarlett
It reminds me so much of 9/11. Don’t feel like doing much. Just waiting for time to pass, which it will.