one more thing today.

I just want to put one more somewhat hopeful message up here so I can go home and watch TV and hug my safe friends and family instead of combing all the webpages I've skirted for the last seven days, and that is this...

Peter: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times.

I'm not a Bible thumper, and I don't really see the Catholic church in which I was raised as anything other than a den of intolerance punctuated by an occasionally touching moment of faith and/or community, but there's something so wonderfully simple and engaging about unconditional forgiveness on a day like this. May you all continue to be safe and sane.