A thought on the Colorado theatre shooting

I don't often post things of this nature since it seems a little moot considering you can blindly throw a dart at a world map and hit a place where good people are being senselessly killed everyday, sometimes by their own governments. But I like going to movies, and I like Batman, and I embrace the privilege of being able to sit in an air conditioned movie theatre on a hot summer night whenever I can.

I hyperlinked to this blog today while reading about the Colorado shootings. The blog author was one of the people who died in the incident (and who, unbelievably, was a survivor of the Toronto mall shooting last month.) Her name was Jessica, 24, was from Texas, and was on her way to becoming a sportscaster. Reading this blog entry, which is quite clever and well-written but not very serious at all, reminds me of any one of my friends who are equally as witty, talented, and earmarked to do remarkable things.

We are all so unbelievably carefree until we're not.

I'm not sure why I wanted to share Jessica's blogpost here, but it seems that she was a well-rounded user of social media, and as all of us who are also social net junkies do, I'm sure she wouldn't mind the share.

My thoughts are with the injured and the friends and families of those killed in the Colorado shooting, and also with those who witnessed the attack and will have that evening haunting their memories for the rest of their lives.

Conflict is inherently human, it is how we interact, process, learn and grow. Trauma, being an extension of this, allows for a recovery process that is incredibly painful but at that same time incredibly human. Who we are as a species depends on how we heal ourselves.  

Oliver.

Space excavator
Alien operator
Bucket collects stars.

Intergalactic
Machine RPM revs high
Ready! Set! Take off!

Brave hopper.

Hello, brave hopper
Habitat reinvented
Amphibian lost.

Total station.

Surveying laser
Partner does not know metric
A millimetre.

Trenches of Cat Lake.

Concrete pour, rain pour
Auger rotation rock jam
Machines, metal, men. 

That rock shelf gambler
Jagged ancient glacier cut
Canadian Shield.

 

Water pulls mud down
Stripping forms with damp vigour
Trenches of Cat Lake.

Terraformation
Aquatic acrobats swim

We construction fish!