I am still stunned by the news from Connecticut. My thoughts are with the friends and families of the victims. I don’t even know what words would be able to express how horrible this event is. People should never be targeted like this, especially children. Below are some photos of children I’ve seen all over the world. All of us should work to ensure that they have bright futures. No child should ever live in fear.
London, England
Paris, France
Copenhagen, Denmark
Cape Town, South Africa
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TB Markinson is an American who's recently returned to the US after a seven-year stint in the UK and Ireland. When she isn't writing, she's traveling the world, watching sports on the telly, visiting pubs in New England, or reading. Not necessarily in that order.
Her novels have hit Amazon bestseller lists for lesbian fiction and lesbian romance.
She cohosts the Lesbians Who Write Podcast (lesbianswhowrite.com) with Clare Lydon. TB also runs I Heart Lesfic (iheartlesfic.com), a place for authors and fans of lesfic to come together to celebrate lesbian fiction.
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My kids are older now, but I still couldn’t stop hugging them all weekend! It just breaks my heart, and when I turned on CNN last night and they started showing photos of those beautiful little children, I started to cry :(. I’m still finding it all hard to process.
I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to process tragedies like this. It’s too painful. Give your kids a hug for me. You can never have too much love.
I definitely will! I talk about you all the time, so they will feel like they know who the hugs are coming from :).
You mean you say I whine a lot
No!!! Of course not :). I tell them how much you make me laugh :).
Ah, that’s kind of you.
:). So, how’s you Christmas prep going? I thought you weren’t going to be on here. You just couldn’t stay away from us could you? 🙂
We are getting close to being done. Almost all the cards are in the mail–they’ll be late, but sent before the actual holiday 🙂 How many organizational gifts did you buy for people?
Well, let’s see, because your name begins with a “T”, you will be getting a present that begins with a “T”, like a toy or maybe tea because you live in London. Ohhh, I just remembered that I did buy an organizational gift for my hubby. We have a Keurig coffee machine that uses k-cups for single servings of coffee. The boxes of k-cups are usually falling over each other in the cupboard, so I bought him a storage unit that sits under the coffee maker, and you pull out a drawer to see all the organized k-cups!!! 🙂 Isn’t that amazing??
Are you going to organize the cups for him and keep them stocked 🙂
No way – I’ll organize them for sure but he can buy them :). LOL
That sounds like teamwork. he buys, you organize.
You got it 🙂
Your pictures show the universal beauty of humanity. Children connect and humble us.
Thanks Cindy. Children teach me so much every day. Their innocence, fun, and intelligence is amazing and should be treasured.
Its Horrendous. This is also the community I live in and a friend was affected. Yesterday there was a bomb threat at a local church…some guy called in saying he is going to kill people. There is no end to human evil sometimes.
I’m so sorry for you and your friend. And I hope they catch the guy who made the bomb threat. There is too much evil in the world
The amount of compassion that poured in is unbelievable. There is still a lot of goof out there. Thank you.
That’s good to hear. My thoughts are with you and I wish you a happy New year. Take care 🙂
This gets to be a tougher world to live in each day. The more we become materialistic, the less time we have for the children and they are all vying for our love and attention. I think we should stop and think that a bigger house, more cars, more of everything material cannot compensate for our presence in our children’s lives.
I think many of us forget what’s really important in life: the people we love.
Still stunned as well!
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
It doesn’t make any sense to me.
Yes indeed, there have been some really awful things happen of late but kids of this age dying in such a manner is more horrific than can, or should be, imagined. It is of no comfort that the young man who did this was certainly crazed beyond understanding as no amount of sanity would allow even the most bitter, angry person to kill that many children at point blank range. And how awful for these families that this season in particular will rip the bandage off their wounds every year. I barely know where to start to pray for them but I do, and will.
I’ll add my prayers as well. It’s one of those events that we’ll never understand or want to comprehend. Those poor children and adults. Can’t imagine what they felt during those final moments.
What a sad time . Anyone, parent or non parent, can not help but feel devastated by the recent event. Just makes me weep watching the news so I need to just turn it off. Love your pictures—any picture of a child is precious to me!
Children all over the world should feel precious and loved.
Exactly
Well done. The news stories are still tough to take, so its classical music for me this morning.
I might join you Frank. I could use something calming.
It’s working!
It is too awful to take in at one go. I read some startling statistics about deaths from handguns. Last year handguns killed:
48 in Japan,
8 in UK,
34 in Switzerland,
52 in Canada,
58 in Israel,
21 in Sweden, and
10,728 in USA.
That statistics are alarming. I’ve seen them before and they startle me each time.
Such beautiful photos. I’m still processing what happened..I’ve been wanting to write about it, but I’m not quite sure how. This post was a beautiful way to approach this – thanks for sharing those photos.
Thank you. It’s a difficult subject to write about. Such a horrendous event that touched so many.
Sometimes we live in a sad, sad world.
It feels that way now. Such a horrible thing
Reviewing the absurd gun laws would be a good start. I would never visit the USA again until things change and I can feel safe!
I really hope progress is made. Too many tragedies.
So so so so terrible. I send out my prayers to all of the families and friends of those who didn’t survive the shooting. I respect their privacy, but all I want to know is why would someone target a school like that? It’s sick. It’s been in the back of my mind for the last few days. Hopefully things will change….
I keep thinking about it as well. We shouldn’t forget what happened and yes, I hope things will change. These acts have to stop. School should never be a place where kids fear for their lives.
I don’t often cry while watching the news, but I couldn’t help it this week. Beyond horrible. The shooter had to have colossal problems to do something like this.
I can’t watch the news reports. Whenever I see pictures of the children I tear up. All so young and beautiful. And the teachers–so sad.
You’ve said enough.
Thank you.
Lovely post and 100% true!!
That was a very scary incident.
It boggles my mind that people can commit such atrocities.
Beautiful post.
This incident will affect the children for a long time to come. But time does heal – as I have experienced with my own child. If we allow the children to express their fears and not hide them inside of themselves, it will help towards the healing process.
I hope all of the victims are receiving help so they can deal with their experiences and hopefully like you said, be able to heal. It will take time and i wish them well.
I feel like you summed it up beautifully with your pictures.
thanks Cass
Well said. Beautiful post!!
so cute.