Processing

How do we process this? How do we begin to process this?

I don't know.

I keep reading about it, I keep listening to the radio, and I just don't know where to start.

There are so many powerful pieces that have been circulating around the internet . . .

The New Yorker piece . . .

When will we Americans realize that our society is an unacceptably violent one, that this is how the rest of the world sees us, and that much of that violence is associated with guns? Will it be the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School? Where is our threshold for self-awareness?

The Anarchist Soccer Mom piece . . .

...these boys—and their mothers—need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.

and The Onion piece, which offers no solution to any problem, just hits a nerve and articulates a feeling . . .

“I…” said Tom Miller, 27, after reading an article about the tragedy online. “I just…” 

 “…” he added.

I wish I knew what to say. I wish I had a solution. But as Jacquie said, Now we live in a world where something like this can happen. And as Beth said, There are so, so many things that are broken.

I keep reading, I keep thinking, I keep pacing.

I keep processing . . .