I simply don't know what to say.

I saw the news this morning and the pain reaches like a black icy wind right the way to this side of the world...

...

It's difficult to comprehend.

such deep sadness
and also
so much love

Unspeakable horror.

I wondered how close this was to you. Awful awful awful. I have a grandson in kindergarten. I volunteer in his classroom. I just cannot imagine anyone shooting one of those precious children. And their terror .... it makes me cry.

{{{HUGS}}} Things like this are hard enough to cope with even when they don't happen in your proverbial backyard. Be gentle with yourself.

dreadful, dreadful
Blessings
xxx

*HUGS*

I cannot even begin to comprehend what the parents are going through and what possibly had gone through that young man's head. I am utterly and completely horrified.

It's so brutal, so terrible, I can't even imagine what it's like there. (((hugs)))

I know. Inescapably sad.

That's scarily close - I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing about blogland, it's almost guaranteed that someone out there is closer to the Really Terrible Things That Happen In The World than you might expect.

Sometimes, I'm so relieved to be living over here, though clearly we have our own sets of home-grown psychotic loons so we can't exactly say that we occupy the moral high ground. We found the murder of the two policewomen heart-breaking earlier this year, and though it's been sixteen years since the massacre at Dunblane, I still remember the horror and disbelief I felt when I first heard of it.

You know, if they're so hellbent on self-destruction, why can't they just cut out the middleman and kill themselves without dragging so many innocents into the flippin' mix!?!

I thought of you. So close. So sad.

It's such a terrible shock and such an appalling tragedy, but to have it happen so close to where you live ... oh honey.