[This was written after the July 2016 murder of five Dallas police officers and the racial tensions that led up to it.] Despite all the horror and ugliness from this past week, I have seen so much good and beauty.  I have seen black and white friends calling each other

Last Sunday a man went into a nightclub in Orlando and shot over one hundred people, murdering 49 and injuring 53. These mass killings that were once almost unheard of seem to have increased to a point of near horrific regularity and everyone responds to these situations in different ways.