It's so hard to maintain the delicate balance between caring and sinking into the depths of sadness when decapitations have become a regular part of the news. The self-centered silver lining on which I focus is that at least I don't have to answer questions from a four-year-old about such. Do parents these days watch the news? Or do they watch it in the dead of night? How would I explain the craziness when I can't understand it myself? Moms and Dads, I feel for you.
Posted by Shokufeh at September 21, 2004 08:46 PMthe world is a difficult place to understand, much less describe to a child. as ben watt sings so hauntingly in his song -
"I've thought of having children, but I've gone and changed my mind.
It's hard enough to watch the news, let alone explain it to a child,
to cast your eye cross nature, over fields of rape and corn,
and tell him without flinching not to fear where he's been born." - everything but the girl, the night i heard caruso sing