I was in the midst of writing this note to you when I heard about the shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
I was writing a zippy, useful list of ways to proactively set up your year for 2013.
Maybe I’ll send that to you next week.
Today I am sitting with the unbearable fact that everything we love can be shattered in an instant.
And how senseless violence is.
As the mother of a six-year-old girl, I am way too close to this tragedy to have anything useful to say at this point.
But my wise friend and master coach Martha Atkins is a researcher on death and grief, and she just posted a piece on how to talk to young children about death. I think it might be useful to you today.
Here it is:
http://marthaatkins.com/2012/talking-about-death-with-young-children
I know we will all hug our children tighter tonight. Even in shock, even knowing it can all be taken away, I want to keep loving.
I don’t know if I can find my way to peace today, but the fierce maternal lion in me is roaring. Today love feels like fury.
Our hearts, broken wide open, are the horror but also the beauty of our humanity.
