What can I do, as a small person in this sudden upheaval, this messy world? I read carefully, try to send donations where they will do the most good, maybe volunteer for whatever might make a small difference.
Yet I think the most important thing for me personally is to try to shield my children from this news--one is taking an important math final at University as I write this, one is basking in recent acceptance to the college of her choice, the little one is aiming to aim higher at his next science Olympiad event.
These kids will have the weight of this world on their own shoulders soon enough, soon enough. No need to burden them with all this now--boiling nuke rod pools, the possibility that household income will be substantially cut among their friends and neighbors, the effects on their friends' college choices.
Thank goodness for a project in hand, for mohair and beads and lace and yarn. For community boards and e-mails and questions about the best way to cast off. Thank goodness for knitting.
TK