Memories in the future
Hello readers. This is a new day, which makes all of those preceding it a memory. In the Helios-bathed neighborhood of Parkland, Fl their good people were plunged into emotional darkness last week. They became the latest site of a school shooting. 17 dead. Countless affected. This jarred me back to 1999 and Columbine, CO. All the way back then it was the third school shooting in a year...but the first where dead were in double digits. It occurred to me that the youngest of the students from that horrifying '99 event were 14...but are now as old as I was at that point in 1999-32 years old. When they left for school that morning none would have ever imagined that the memory created that day would repeat itself in the future...and unfortunately, several times before they even reached middle-age. When you're 14-18 people that are 32-36 are "old." I remember the anger I had when the news coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech Univer...