The fuss we’re making over this storm coming up makes me feel as if we’re avoiding the bigger issue.  Normally it would be a big issue in itself, but we’re still in existential danger and we haven’t been addressing it.  We focus on the one hostage who hasn’t been returned as if the memory of the incredible massacre will be erased once his body is found.  

Byron will pass and I believe we can weather this storm, but I am less and less sure of the damage we are doing to ourselves by not admitting our internal damage, the way we’ve been torn apart physically and morally.