On a day when George and many bloggers, left and right, politicized a deeply felt event (a pox on all your houses to put the innocent aside at this time), there was this.
As always, grief is an individual moment. It is most human to live in a moment and feel despair, but human also to know that it will end. Finally, someone said it more eloquently than I have ever heard before.
From today's Convocation at Virginia Tech:
Poet Nikki Giovanni, the final speaker at the prayer service, delivered a
rousing speech and then raised her arms to encourage the chanting
crowd.
"We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while," said Giovanni, an
English professor at the southwestern Virginia university. "We are not moving
on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech," she said. "We are
strong enough to stand tall tearlessly. We are brave enough to bend to cry, and
sad enough to know we must laugh again."
Our thoughts are with all.
Update: Thankfully, someone gets it - leave it alone right now. (via Andrew Sullivan to CNN)
