I don't intend to post much more about the horrors in Paris since I still haven't thought of anything non-obvious to say about it. But this afternoon, I happened to come upon a quote from Jim Henson and it struck a timely note with me. I posted it on my Facebook page and I thought I oughta post it here too…
At some point in my life I decided, rightly or wrongly, that there are many situations in this life that I can't do much about — acts of terrorism, feelings of nationalistic prejudice, Cold War, etc. — so what I should do is concentrate on the situations that my energy can affect.
I think that's a real good way to look at tragedies like this. I doubt anyone reading this blog — and certainly no one typing on it at the moment — can do the slightest thing to prevent what happened in Paris from happening again. We probably can't do anything on that scale of bettering the world. But we can do what we can do and that usually isn't nothing.