Remembering / Preventing the Sandy Hook Shooting

RantWoman thinks some readers will be grateful only to look at the two items here as a memorial to the Sandy Hook Shootings.

First, a father of one of the murdered boys at a retreat with Thich Nhat Khan



Next, " Love all the Children" writing from Lucy Duncan
http://www.afsc.org/friends/love-all-children-disarming-our-hearts-after-shootings-sandy-hook-school

RantWoman readers who read the above and wonder where the hell the real RantWoman has gone will have another opportunity to find out shortly.

RantWoman is deeply moved by Lucy Duncan's words here. RantWoman is also happy to hold the cares of grieving parents who might not be anywhere near ready to think about all the other grief beyond them.

RantWoman does not hold these parents because she is Wonder Quaker. In fact, RantWoman alternates between "too much Buddhism makes me want to punch people" and "okay, may we sit with that.  RantWoman holds these parents in particular care because RantWoman remembers a time when she was deeply grieving the passing of RantDad. Somewhere along the way, someone said something that RantWoman now remembers as something like "What? You think you are the first person who has ever grieverd or the only person grieving?"

RantWoman remembers being TERRIBLY affronted and thinking that was just RUDE.

Rude?

And also incredibly helpful.  Uhhh ...

For now just hold this community in theLight.