10.25.2022 | Tuesday Sorrow

Day:  66-degrees  |  Night:  41-degrees 
Today is different.  Today is hard.  School shootings and violence is always difficult.  Yesterday it was in our own backyard. A teacher and children were murdered in cold blood in a school for the Performing Arts.  The Performing Arts exist to give us joy and happiness and express emotions that words cannot express.  Instead of that creativity, life was taken away.

I did my student teaching at the original Visual and Performing Arts High School which was lovingly referred to as VAP.  It was down in Soulard in the Humboldt School building.  The students were a joyful bunch of artists and performers who dreamed big dreams and put their hearts and souls into their work.  That experience has been taken away from these young people.  Some lives are over and many of the lives that remain will never be the same.  What's the answer? I don't know. I wish I could wave a magic wand and change it all. I do know this one thing, Love conquers all. Love is the only thing that will fix the problems. Until we can truly love our neighbor as ourselves this evil will continue.  Today I am hugging those around me a little bit tighter.  I'm finishing everything with an I love you.  I hope you know you are loved as well.  I hope you can feel goodness and kindness around you.  I hope. 

The rain has arrived just as the tears in our eyes are falling.  It's a good day to pause and reflect.  Resolve to love others.  Resolve to show kindness and goodness everywhere.  Resolve to be the change in this world.  Here's to faith in the future, hope for a better tomorrow, and love to truly change our hearts.  Give me faith, hope and love everywhere because we are all struggling today.  Today is different.  Today is hard.