This morning we woke up to the news that a teenager had died in a shooting near our work last night. Last I heard the shooter was still at large.
Later in the day all of our schools went on “secured perimeter” lockdown as a school shooting happened in the next district over with reports now of 8 injured and one death.
Two shootings in a day. Too much death for one day.
Working at a school district in this day and age when guns are glorified and these tragedies are sensationalized is heartbreaking, confusing, and terrifying. We fear for our lives and we worry over our ability to assist and to stomach carnage, we might encounter one day.
Some of us have already been impacted by gun violence in the past and some of us have lost loved ones in mass shootings already firmly in the public memory by now. For them, and for all of us who feel like we are only waiting our turn, the cycle, the horrific repetition of death, drama, outrage, prayers, forgetting, and then more death, can feel like a nightmare we cannot wake up from.
I just want us to wake up now.
Please, wake up.
These entries are inspired by Thord D. Hedengren
Lisa Marie Blair 
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