Where has Kindness and Compassion Gone I originally wrote this right after the attack at the Manchester arena in May. I remember sitting there trying to wrap my mind around it and I couldn't. I really can't understand how a person can do something like that. How can a person feel so little regard for someone else's life? How can someone take another person's life so callously like that? We say it's more devastating because there were young children in there but I see the senseless murder of every life, regardless of age, as devastating, and I can't wrap my mind around it. I really can't! Murder is murder. Mass shootings, bombings, and the like are becoming almost a regular occurrence.. . how did we get here? How did we, as a society, get to this place? Where did we go wrong? When did compassion get replaced by selfishness? We blame religion but it's not religion's fault. I believe with everything in me that there had to be something inside th
For me, trying to pick just 1 topic to talk about is like trying to stay on my feet during a tornado in the middle of a hurricane while an earthquake is happening...not possible! As my thoughts are all over the place, so shall this blog be.