The Newtown shooting has me texting my nanny asking her to please tell me when my kids are home safe from school and rushing home to hug each and every one of them too tight while I finally allow the tears to come.
I have no idea what to do but light a candle here on these pages so that anyone who may pass through knows that my heart is breaking for the parents whose arms are empty and that I will stand behind them when we are ready to truly question why this happened and how we could have prevented it.
I was at home feeling helpless, feeling hopeless. Then in a flash inspiration hit – I know that there are charities set up to help the families, but since it occurred in an affluent neighbourhood it wasn’t striking me as what I needed to do – I know those charities are valued and the money is going to good use, but I wanted something more – then it hit me – make a donation to a charity, in Memorium of the children killed in the tragedy. It won’t even begin to balance out the pain, but maybe if enough sparks of light are created from this darkness, if we can show that evil can beget good when we take the time and energy to make it so, then maybe we can help the families heal in some small way. Maybe with enough sparks the families will know that their children will never be forgotten, that their children were tied to something good rather than something bad, and that we can find sparks of light in the darkness.