It's Wednesday morning, the day after the horrific murder of nineteen schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. My wife and I are standing outside our six-year-old's school, willing ourselves to let him go in. We're checking his mask, repositioning his backpack. I run a finger across the bridge of his nose, tracing its shape. She tucks stray hairs behind his ear. We hug him, a hug that I didn't want to end. He finally squirms away and goes in. There's a stony silence among the parents left standing outside, each one wrecked at the impossibility of sending our children to school. Each one haunted by the same question: will they come back out?
It's Wednesday morning, the day after the horrific murder of nineteen schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. My wife and I are standing outside our six-year-old's school, willing ourselves to let him go in. We're checking his mask, repositioning his backpack. I run a finger across the bridge of his nose, tracing its shape. She tucks stray hairs behind his ear. We hug him, a hug that I didn't want to end. He finally squirms away and goes in. There's a stony silence among the parents left standing outside, each one wrecked at the impossibility of sending our children to school. Each one haunted by the same question: will they come back out? |
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These are foundations for effortless fits. |
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On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee "marked up" a package of gun reforms in the immediate wake of the killing of five people at a Tulsa hospital, and in the slightly more extended wake of the murders in Buffalo and Uvalde. In all three of these atrocity, the weapons of choice included the AR-15. Anyway, this was one of the last times we got to see an ensemble performance of the incredible passel of blowhard and ignorami with which the Republican caucus filled its seats on that important panel. |
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A new biography, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and Struggle for Racial Justice, makes clear how easily my life could have been his. |
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