Mothers and Tragedies

The Historical picture of the day:

                               Australian boy getting new shoes during WWII

                                            Mothers and Tragedies 
From the Big City a bicycle-path tragedy and then  to rural Texas and a crazy man.  We cannot prepare for all acts of deranged people, nor defend against it.

We sit in our homes, cars or businesses and wish there was a way to make life safe. A mother holds her child and prays for a safe world. The child looks to the mother and says in their mind, ‘I am safe’.  It was so many years ago, but I can still ‘know’ that feeling I felt when mama pulled me close and held me (Probably thru the 4^th grade).

As the years have passed I have met hundreds of people. I have known some who NEVER knew a real mother due to death, alcohol or drugs. I feel for anyone who has never felt the safety of a mother’s arms as she drew them close to hold them; and then she leaned her cheek down to the top of your head and a child felt a 360 degree hug of safety. Dads sometimes try, but they can seldom combine love, touch and warmth the way a mama can.

The world changed when mama’s changed. It is so hard to fathom a person intentionally in anger taking lives (especially children or someone’s mother). How can one who has truly been loved and hugged by a mother or a real surrogate do something like that????  The memory of my mother’s hugs have lasted nearly 80 years.

Today facts of our body:

 The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.  And  our eyes are always the same size from birth but the nose and ears never stop growing.


 
Nite Shipslog
PS: The thoughts above are not to say a child with a loving mother cannot do something crazy, I know they can. I know of some who have permanently hurt loving and caring parents. In these senseless slaughters, of course I think of the victims and families involved. Then in disgust give some thought to the perpetrator,  almost immediately I think of his mother (and family), "Some family will be devastated for the rest of their lives by a cloud that will always follow their names. because of this fool."

The beautiful 1935 Buick I would love to drive that dude around.