Walking Home From Fenway

April 15, 2013  Patriots Day 

DIANNE WRITES:

We walked after we were evacuated from the T
It was a very long walk

I think by now we all know this was the act of one lone man with a dark mission.  Why are some consumed by death and its disruption in our lives?  It is the work of Satan himself.  And where his works are so lay death.  The mission of Christ above all was to reveal love as our truth.  Destruction manifests an absence of love.  Oh, you might say, as Carol Burnett once did, I had to love my daughter enough to let her hate me...but she was acting out of love.  These muslim yahoos, these i don't know, mad schemers, these active terrorists...they serve an ill cause.  Ultimately, their cause is death.  But christians have a trick up their sleeve called faith and it mitigates the fear of losing ones' life.  For no man knows the hour or moment on earth...or something like that.

There is though a supremely ironic moment in Boston yesterday, where my family had gathered, a father crosses the finish line into the embrace of his son, elated, filled, joyous and then ... no more.   My prayer is that that boy only feel that unconditional love of that moment for the rest of eternity.

What cowards must resort to such violence in order for their small and fecund voice to be heard?  We were put here to make this place better.  Not destroy it.  Fools.  Damned Damned Damned Fools!

On the other hand, something actually good has happened in our schools.

Believe it or not but, it is my understanding that a miracle may have occurred here in Windham.  Or at least 75% of one anyway.  It is rumored, though I have not seen it written anywhere, that Adamowski has replaced back into the budget the appropriate funding to re-instate the elementary music teacher, re-instate the choral/orchestral position, beginning the process of schedule modifications at the middle school to meet state requirements and they are replacing and repairing all of the instruments that the kids need.  In fact, as soon as the choral guy graduates from UCONN (that's its real name now you know,) this Spring, he will be starting at the high school!

I am not a betting man, but if I were I say that in 3 years we will have a 10 to 17% increase in test scores, minimally.  People love a dem test scores.  Not to mention some very good music.

Isn't it amazing what just one man can do that 9 cannot.

He can raise a school system up or tear a Marathon down.

David Fenn