The Human Connection

As I write this, my heart is heavy over the news that a 12-year-old girl was killed in a town just across the river from where I grew up in Philadelphia. Her alleged killers were teenage brothers who apparently wanted her bike.

To say that news like that is saddening and maddening is an understatement. To say that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, while tempting, is too sweeping and too fatalistic, and it makes it too easy to say, "There's nothing anyone can do."