I think sometimes that we do have big hearts over here, that we in all our industriousness wish we could just do something, but Christ almighty, we get misguided really quite easily.

What good does this proposed silence of writers do? I mean, at least, the ‘moment’ of silence, impotent as I think that can be sometimes, is used for prayer and contemplation.

Count me in as one of your readers who will be very much present on the 30th, ready to read whatever you post on that day of days for you.

I observe all these laudatory comments to you …and I think; “well deserved.”

You are a lovely and graceful writer.

And I will tune in, as will many others I think, to your blog on April 30. And will feel sorrow for you and your loss, and your family’s loss. And certainly for Oscar’s loss, for truly, he lost a brother he never knew.

I love your writing and your sensitivity.

But, as a fellow writer who gets lots of praise, as you do, I want to say that this praise, as lovely as it is, is merely “strokes.”

And I wonder, did the young man who killed so many innocents this week ever get “strokes?”

Did he ever get the love that Oscar does; or many of us do, because God gave us talent that we can use and that reaches others; and because of that, we get support and help through our grief?

We, who are articulate and middle-class enough to have our own computer, will always be heard.

What of the silent ones?

http://plainjanemom.com/2007/04/18/for-those-who-want-to-post-about-virginia-tech-on-the-one-day-blog-silence/

Amen

The silence that surrounds people in the death of a loved one is loud and large and not needed to be added to. I know, as a Mother, Sister, Wife, and Daughter, I wouldn’t want to on that day, see silence, a silence already surrounds, I would NEED to see support, written, spoken or otherwise, to try and fill some of that silence.

And my prayers and thoughts, however small that may seem are with you on the 30th.

My thoughts with you on 4/30.