Back to school season and this turn around the sun coincides with yet another school shooting and the murder of 6 Hamas kidnapping victims and sharpens a sense of fear for all our children
I had a very difficult time with sending my kids to school the week of the Georgia school shooting. My 5 yo had finally adjusted to liking school again after starting in early August at our extended year magnet school. My 2nd grader heard about the school shooting and asked me about what had happened and who had died. He knew I had been volunteering with our county's democratic party and we had a long talk about common sense gun reform and our current candidate for state superintendent of public education. Thank you for sharing your reflections, the tragedies often feel like too much to bear.
Julia, this is beautifully written… heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. How are we to reconcile so much tragedy? To carry on with our lives when others’ have been cut short? To worry that we could be next? You offer poignant reflections on these questions. Thank you for sharing from your heart. ❤️
I had a very difficult time with sending my kids to school the week of the Georgia school shooting. My 5 yo had finally adjusted to liking school again after starting in early August at our extended year magnet school. My 2nd grader heard about the school shooting and asked me about what had happened and who had died. He knew I had been volunteering with our county's democratic party and we had a long talk about common sense gun reform and our current candidate for state superintendent of public education. Thank you for sharing your reflections, the tragedies often feel like too much to bear.
Julia, this is beautifully written… heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. How are we to reconcile so much tragedy? To carry on with our lives when others’ have been cut short? To worry that we could be next? You offer poignant reflections on these questions. Thank you for sharing from your heart. ❤️