I wanted to not know how vulnerable we all are. I wanted this story and these pictures in my head to be about people on the news I didn’t know so I could change the channel. I wanted Bill to be back to cooking pancakes for our missed neighborhood Fourth of July breakfast, all of us with nothing more worrisome on our minds than the slip-and-slide.
Yes, we’ve had all the fireworks we can stomach in Alpine this year.
Forgive us. Forgive us all.
Wendy Ulrich, psychologist, author and founder of Sixteen Stones Center for Growth (sixteenstones.net), most recently co-authored the New York Times best seller "The Why of Work."
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Your article touched my heart.