From The Heart

Emile Jean Trimble and Dana Carvey

Today I said goodbye to my beautiful cousin Emile. At her core, she was a light and an incredible joy to be around. She was an actress, songstress and  theater actress. She will be so missed.  Emile put on shows at Busch Gardens and loved little children. As the priest said today, perhaps she was there to greet the little souls that were entering at this moment.

I was driving to Williamsburg all day Friday and only learned of the Newton tragedy on my phone through twitter. By the time we got to our hotel, the news was horrific and made an already difficult day/weekend all the more sad and terrible.

I wrestled with the idea of not publishing my WUB awards tomorrow but have decided to do so because we all need a bit of a distraction and as Emile would say "the show must go on'. So I will put the blog up in the morning.

As someone that worked in public schools for 10 years and continues to work with 4 and 5 year olds on a daily basis, this sort of crisis is just unimaginable. Yet, it happened. Makes me wonder about so many things.

See you in the morning.