A Sad but Moving Tribute

The tone which was supposed to be set tonight:

A 9-year-old girl killed in last weekend’s mass shooting in Arizona will be buried in a hand-crafted casket donated by a group of Roman Catholic monks in Iowa.

Trappist Caskets , which is owned and operated by monks of the New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, was contacted by the Bring Funeral Home in Tucson, Ariz., on behalf of Christina Taylor Green’s family.

It’s a comfort to the family “to know that it was made by monks and blessed by the monks,” said Belinda Motzkin Brauer, a representative for the funeral home…

Today was supposed to be about mourning for loss. I’m still trying to digest what really happened at the memorial, but the more I consider it the less I like what I saw and heard. But some people know what to do when others have suffered loss…