{"id":26663,"date":"2018-10-30T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=26663"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:05:33","slug":"pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=26663","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as I haven’t written too<\/em> much about grieving over the last six months (opting instead to keep it light and share mostly happy photos and stories) I also haven’t addressed other things happening in the world. It feels strange and wrong, though, to not talk about Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

I don’t have to elaborate on how horrific and tragic the event was, because I know anyone reading this understands and agrees. But what happened feels so very personal – not only because it was an act of hatred towards a community that we belong to and a reminder that people out there despise my children and other loved ones for absolutely no reason, but because I can’t help but think about the family members of those who were killed. My parents weren’t brutally murdered, and my sister and I weren’t ambushed with media stories about what happened, but I do know how it feels to lose someone suddenly and randomly. (“Life can change with a blink of the eye,” my dad used to tell us – and how right he was.) And it has made my personal grief and heartache that much more potent these past few days.<\/p>\n

As for the girls, I’ve long believed in protecting them from life’s cruelties (without, of course, keeping them in a bubble) – and we have a pretty good understanding of what kinds of information each one can handle. In Avery’s case, I told her a\u00c2\u00a0bad person did something very bad to people in a synagogue, and our community was collectively mourning. Zoe, meanwhile, heard more of what happened -\u00c2\u00a0a Shabbat service, a man with a gun, many deaths – but wasn’t told much more in terms of motives or details (though, knowing Zoe, she was able to fill in the blanks).<\/p>\n

At the girls’ school, the 3rd-5th graders will be singing\u00c2\u00a0prayers for healing and peace during their weekly prayer service on Thursday, and the middle schoolers had a special assembly to mark the event and honor the victims on Monday morning. The parents were sent the slides that the children saw, and I found this particular part beautiful, and comforting:<\/p>\n

Gesher Tsar Me-od<\/strong><\/p>\n

The whole world <\/span><\/p>\n

is a very narrow bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the most important part<\/span><\/p>\n

is not to be afraid.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as I haven’t written too much about grieving over the last six months (opting instead to keep it light and share mostly happy photos and stories) I also haven’t addressed other things happening in the world. It feels strange and wrong, though, to not talk about Pittsburgh. I don’t have to elaborate on how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-99-two-kids-jan-dec-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26667,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663\/revisions\/26667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}