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Light and Dark

Years ago, a friend of mine had introduced me to the notion of taking a night near Christmas to go for a run just to look at lights.  No real planned route or distance, but just to see the lights.  This was always a really enjoyable way to spend a few minutes on a chilly December night.  Last week I decided that I needed to revive that this year after a several year hiatus.  Then came Friday. Tonight was the night that I had set aside to look at lights in windows, Angels in yards, fake Santas, and all the rest.  As I settled into the run my mind turned to the horror of Friday.  Equal amounts of grief and anger set in.  I wished that I could be there in Newtown to put an arm around every Mother or Father who'd lost a child.  Who'd lost posterity.  Unlike previous school shootings in high schools or at Virginia Tech, these student victims had hardly even begun life.  For these there would be no little league baseball, no first dance, no prom queens or high school quarterbacks.