Validate Your Life

What to say? What not to say? How can you address the three elements of grieving in regards to the Virgia Tech Shootings:

1. Past — Why did it happen? Why did Virigina Tech wait 2 hours before sending out an all-school email alert, and three hours before cancelling classes and taking drastic alert meaures? What compelled the shooter to act? Is it SES differences? Is it balancing out the academcic social scene or nurturing the emotional construct?
2. Present — What stage of grief is everyone at? How can we most effectively be not owned by, but manage our emotions effectively. Do we talk about suffering or perseverence and learning? How can we not talk about vengeane and talk about healing? Do we draw our attention elsewhere? How can we reach out to friends, family, those closer to the calamity?
3. Future — How can we What can we change to prevent this? How can we present non-violent forms of communication in additon to (of course) than reading my book, “Our Compassionate Reservoirs“? How can we focus not on what we want to expel, but what we want to include?