Somber

I am not going to lie.  Going to work and sending my kids to school today was tough.  We spent much of our faculty meeting on Tuesday discussing evacuation plans and lockdown procedures.  Yesterday, a school faced the unimaginable with 17 left dead.  It was definitely a somber start to the day for much of the staff.  I think the thing that struck me was that I first learned of the shooting when a friend posted that her best friend's children attended the school.  There was no news alert until the death count total of 17 was determined.  This is what we've become, a nation where this is so common that there is no news alert until the death count is high.