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09/27/2006 11:45:28 PM · #1 |
I live thirty minutes downhill from Platte Canyon High School, where the hostage situation turned school shooting happened today... on my mind the whole time I shot and processed this shot to fill my daily photo requirement for my 50 Days project. I don't normally post my daily entries here, but given the day's events, I wanted to share it, and put my good thoughts toward my neighbors out into the universe.
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09/28/2006 12:26:12 AM · #2 |
Sad day wasn't it.
I don't know about you but it sure brought back a flood of memories from Columbine. My heart and prayers go out to those kids and the family of the young lady that was killed. My youngest daughter was full of questions this afternoon and about all I could say was -- I don't know why, honey, I just don't know why. How do you explain something like this to a 10 year old when you don't understand the dynamics behind what happened?
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09/28/2006 12:38:43 AM · #3 |
Wow - I live in a cave - hadn't heard about the shooting. I live in a tiny, sleepy suburb North of Seattle and we have had NOTHING happen in the past fifteen years until this past month - two killings - one kid at a party shoots another and the former Mayor of our town kills a cop and claims it was some diabetic seizure episode thingy like that incident someone posted awhile back about the driver of a car killing a woman.
I am trying to refrain from saying the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. ...mainly cuz I don't really understand that metphor - I mean, a handbasket isn't a form of transportation, is it? I dunno. Sad day's all I'll say.
Thanks for posting the pic though, Karma. |
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09/28/2006 01:05:14 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by debitipton:
Sad day wasn't it.
I don't know about you but it sure brought back a flood of memories from Columbine. My heart and prayers go out to those kids and the family of the young lady that was killed. My youngest daughter was full of questions this afternoon and about all I could say was -- I don't know why, honey, I just don't know why. How do you explain something like this to a 10 year old when you don't understand the dynamics behind what happened? |
I was living in Florida during Columbine, but I immediately freaked back then since I had a cousin in high schooln in Littleton, and I couldn't remember which school she attended. It's a strange state, I think, in that the entire state feels very much like one very large small town where everyone knows everyone else. As much as the rest of the country has moved on except to reference Columbine as though from a textbook whenever something remotely similar pops up elsewhere, Colorado is still very much affected by it - and everyone knows someone. The entire state knew who Kobe Bryant's alleged rape victim was and had an opinion on the state of her virtue since everyone knew someone who knew her. Platte Canyon will be no different. Every Coloradoan will know someone who was there.
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09/28/2006 10:53:11 AM · #5 |
Just an update: 16 year old Emily Keyes was pronounced dead at the hospital yesterday. A few minutes ago the shooter was identified as Duane Morrison, a local transient with a long arrest record. Since this guy was probably rather psycho, given the arrest record, that "transient" is pretty much just a nice word for "crazy homeless guy", and his bizarre tactic of keeping only the girls, it's unlikely we'll will ever know what set this guy off. The whole thing is incredibly bizarre to me, that even with all the preparedness drills and post-9/11 security paranoia that a random crazy transient can just waltz into a school, hang out for awhile completely unchallenged, despite the fact that no one there knows him at all, before making himself into a national headline.
The bank where I work is very small. We know everyone and their kids and how they're doing in school, we know their dogs, when their cars are acting up, if the roof is leaking. Some of them come in just to spend a few minutes gabbing. At Christmas we have more candy and cookies than we can manage. When my co-worker's husband died, many of them showed up at his funeral. We have that sort of relationship with our customers. It will be interesting in the next few weeks to hear the stories from my customers who live in Bailey. Hearing them is a given.
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