<p>I am here today with a heavy heart. I am not up to date…please forgive me. As we go into prom and grad season please, please, please remind your kids to be safe and wear seat belts. I know you all do. I am feeling helpless right now and it’s the only thing I know to do. </p>
<p>Over the course of my kids time at their high school way too many students have been lost. I find now I can not name all the students. This brings such a profound sadness to me I can’t express. Early this morning there was a fatal accident involving several classmates. Not one was wearing their seatbelt. It may have saved a life…I don’t know. </p>
<p>I understand this loss is not unique to my community. Several of you have expressed that your students have lost friends. As a parent it devastates on so many levels…loss of a young life, grief of students losing way too many friends, and the unimaginable thought that a parent must face such loss. I guess you look in vain for something, anything, that might have made a difference and try to pass it on. </p>
<p>Hug you kids extra tight tonight. Life is short.</p>
<p>Oh on the 420 thing…I had no idea…
Will ask DH and the kids when they are back for dinner.</p>
<p>Recall reading in The Gatekeepers about Weslyan and the whole pot culture… between that and the passages about the girl visiting, and her attending the club/item about the ummmm self discovery thing with women…made it Not a fit…</p>
<p>blueiguana- so sorry for your communities loss. And I will give my d an extra hug today. She is fortunately very good about always wearing her seat belt, but honestly I don’t know if I will ever completely relax when she is out driving…</p>
<p>blue - sorry for your loss. It is so easy for these kids to forget - I remind D each and every time she drives to be careful - if I am around her, I know I get the eye-roll and I am keep reminding her that when you get careless or too confident, mistakes happen easily.</p>
<p>BI - so sorry for your pain. My DH just commented that there seems to be a lot of fatalities caused by car accidents recently. I don’t know if there are more b/c we have a teen whose friends are driving (DS has no interest) or if there really are more. I cannot imagine being in a car, front seat or back, without wearing a seat belt. A 92 year old guest at the seder last night told us she still drives. Now that is truly scary. Fortunately my parents recently stopped driving and they are trying to convince the others where they live to follow suit. They have access to to excellent transportation where they live and there is always my DH (I don’t drive).</p>
<p>blueiguana- I am so, so sorry. I remember back in my day hearing about a carful of kids from my high school who were killed- I still get chills thinking about it. Life is so fragile and they think they are invincible. Sending thougths of peace to you, your family and your community.</p>
<p>I’m so so so very sorry blue. Pls hug bluejr for us. Ds drives 1 hr to get to his new girlfriend’s and it is making me nuts. I will hug him extra hard when he gets back.</p>
<p>As others have already expressed, life is so fragile and precious. I believe there are few things harder than losing a young life like this. As a parent, my heart breaks for anyone who experiences such a loss.</p>
<p>I am sorry. It strikes fear in me with my young adult drivers on a selfish level,but it also hurts when I think of the pain and heartbreak this is causing family and friends.</p>