I consider myself a pretty optimistic person. I think the glass is half full much of the time, but today, the glass is broken.

The tragedy that happened in Connecticut is fucked up. Period.

You can run through all the possible culprits trying to make sense of it. You can rage out trying to find someone or something to blame, somewhere to funnel the rage and despair. But nothing that’s done or said can possibly ever “fix” what’s happened.

So what do you do in the face of an unexplainable tragedy? How do you deal with the anger and fear that comes from an act so incomprehensible? How do you live with the sense of helplessness and lack of control?

Most importantly, we send love and light to all those in pain…

As a mom, I just can’t even begin to imagine the pain…so much lost…

…At times like this, even though throwing up our hands and saying fuck it seems appropriate,  I feel the need to recommit to living lives of compassion and love…

This means standing up and rejecting the culture of violence surrounding us…this means connecting with our humanity and reaching out to others…this means speaking a language of non-violence with everyone around us and ourselves…this means spreading the change and refusing to participate in destructive practices…

…it also means taking time to feel sorrow…

…a capacity for love brings with it a capacity for pain.

Hold those you love near, and send love and light through the universe…there are many souls who need it tonight.