Noticing Mass Murder

Saturday Morning — 21 August 2021

At 5am in mid sleep, somehow I’m typing into an iPad, profusely thanking my friend Juliette for noticing a little post I had shared.

It must have really been bothering me. Ordinarily I could care less if anyone noticed or Liked anything I posted on Facebook. But this was different. From every direction an uninformed, hateful, pessimistic view of ending the Afghanistan occupation. Every news report and outlet dead set on making it worse, scarier, more dangerous. People dying needlessly in stampedes. Each hourly…