When I worked at a museum, I had the honor of watching a similar sand art being made. The first one was taken to a Niagara Falls and gently released. The monks made it clear that life is fluid, nothing is forever.

I wish all of us could take that view point.

We got special permission to have the second one saved with a spray that locked the sand in place. I don’t like that one. I like the honesty of the first one, the simplicity, the calmness of being a temporary fixture

Holy moly though!

I just had a stream of “oh my that time with my kids…!” and “there but for the grace…” thoughts LOL.

Then I read the comments! How sad that only about 5% of them protrayed anything other than an unreasonable and inexplicable anger towards mothers, children and what happened. Creepy? Beat them? Whale on them? Beat their a$$? Have CPS called? Have someone else raise? And loads of amazing leaps of logic and assumptions.

It stinks that it happened…and I can’t tell if the mom had the kid in sight (don’t know that place). But to go where most of those comments go…

Wow. Geez, so disappointing.

People are scary, sometimes, boy.

I’ve been really annoyed at newspapers opening up stories for comment lately. By all means, have a forum, but let the news stand as the news. My old paper does this and it brings out the most hateful things I’ve ever seen.

The link appears to be broken although you can see the story on the front page of kansascity.com.

Boy, those sure weren’t monks leaving some of the comments on the story over on that site though.

Cheers.