Washington Shuts Down

.. over the shooting in Tuscon

Saturday, I read about it on an ipad at the Apple store at Washington Square.

What is the crime that was committed:

* Was it deinstitutionalizing mentally ill people without funding community support for them? Hence leaving people wandering, muttering, attending classes at Pima Community College?

* Was it the unraveled ties for a young man, untethered from his family, neighbors, the community? Should we all be looking out for each other?

* Was it selling a glock with a 33 round magazine to a person under 25?

Or, was it the synergy of all these threads.
And now. Washington is shut down, processing the events of Saturday. Of Tuscon.

This week and every week, notice someone near you. Say something kind to them. You may know them and sit next to them every day, at work, on the bus, in the checkout line, in church. Notice them, acknowledge them. Today, light one candle to light the darkness.