I didn’t attend the Fourth of July Highland Park parade and had no plans to attend. I did have friends and members of my humanist congregation who attended. Fortunately, none of them were injured during the shooting. Six people were killed, and 31 were wounded. I’m sad about the deaths and injuries, as well as shocked that I could have lost friends in an instant. And the reason could be that the shooter did it for the lolz.
Honestly, I’m still kind of processing it all. It’s one thing when shootings like this happen far away. It’s another when a neighboring community becomes a war zone.
I’ve been thinking about a scene in one of my planned books. In it, the main character says mourning and remembering the dead is important, but that it is also important to live your life and make the most of the time you have. That scene now has a new meaning for me. L’chaim!
This is one of those posts where I can’t even. Nothing I can say. Everything I can think of is wrong or even potentially offensive in some way. Glad you and yours are unscathed? You deserve a comment here but … this is the best I can do.
You did well. Thank you, and I’m doing better. Kol Hadash had a gathering last night, and I think we helped each other process what had happened.
I can’t imagine what the survivors and families of the deceased are going through now.