Sandy Hook: The End of the World

On Friday, Dec. 14th, the day began with celebrations for the 94th birthday of BKS Iyengar. By lunchtime, celebrations were unimagineable as news of yet another senseless slaughter of innocent people. 6 and 7 year olds, and the teachers who protected them. We don't need to wait until Dec. 21st, 2012 to witness the end of the world. The world ended for the parents of those children. It ended for their siblings, their aunts, uncles, grandmothers, and grandfathers. It ended for the families of the heroes who shielded them. The world has ended when a parent goes to pick up a child at school, and finds out there is only a body. That the hugs will never be again. The only thing left is a memory. Pictures. Thoughts of what could have been. Perhaps the yearning to have uttered the words "I love you" more often, or at least one more time.

As a community comes together in shock, to understand the madness, let us come together as a human race to support those grieving families. They are our family. Forests are made up of many different kinds of trees, and their roots grow deep into the ground. The deeper we go, we realize that somewhere, deep in the core of the earth, those roots are all connected. So it is for us. We are all different, living in different places. Living different lives. Until we heard the news. Then we are came together. Sandy Hook families and community: You are not alone. We are all outraged. And we mourn with you. And lets hope this is the end of the world. The end of the world as we know it. The end of the madness. The end of the inexplicable. The end of the pain we are all feeling. Our broken hearts are still healing from Aurora. From Sept. 11th. From Columbine. From the stupidity of it all. Our hearts are all exposed. We cannot take anymore violence against human life. Let's end it. Not on Dec. 21st, but today. Now. Ahimsa. (Non-Violence)

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