So many good words to read

And not enough time. This is the smallish stack of books in the lineup -- and my view from my bed which I am cozies up in now as I blip. I'll get to them and all the others (there are more of course) eventually. Addicted.

Today Brookie stayed home sick. Big fever and cough. But tonight as tucked in each of my daughters, I said a prayer of thanks for their safety, and a prayer of sorrow for those poor families in Connecticut who lost their small children (and a few adults, too) to a tragic elementary school shooting. I have no answers and no real intelligent response. It seems to be a part of humankind-- the range of our abilities is wide, from the brilliantly compassionate to the mad, broken, and disturbed. Somehow all these souls inhabit our planet together. Let's hope we get a little better at it.