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2003-03-20 - 3:48 p.m. -




we are a world at war.
for all the talk on all sides of this, it has come down to war. there is no turning back at this point. the most we can hope for now is that the loss of life will be small & that something positive can come out of this. the world will never be as it was, but now we must wait & see what it will become.

i will go home tonight & leave the TV off. wait until after my son goes to bed before i watch the news. he is only four & our country has gone to war twice since he was born. i spent the days after 9/11 watching him try to wrap his new mind around planes flying into buildings. i don�t want to have to try to explain tanks & bombers to him. it is my hope that his will be the generation that moves beyond war. i don�t want him �entertained� by real conflicts, i want him to be old enough to understand that this is real & to be repulsed by the idea of killing, even when it is �justified�. i want him to be old enough to understand that killing is never �justified�, just sometimes easer to forgive. i don�t want him to become numb to this. without caring & compassion, we are lost.

speaking of my son, he just showed up at work so i have to go.
more later.
be well.
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Today�s Stats
Coffee Count: 7 mugs Cigarettes: 9
Candy: some M&Ms
Now Playing: the news
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�I don�t like war. I have never been to a war, but I have seen �The Killing Fields�.�
-Fawn Hall