Helplessness

Watching Notre Dame burn yesterday was like so much of watching the news these days.  You watched something precious slowly being destroyed and there was nothing you could do about it.  You also know that at any moment, some nitwit on Twitter will start talking about "who started it" in a way designed to tear further at the increasingly fragile ties that tether us together as people.  Sometimes terrible things happen by accident. We aren't entirely equipped to handle that.  Many of us would prefer if there were some dark cabal behind every misfortune.  But sometimes terrible things happen for no reason.