tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post7596301069647504640..comments2023-11-05T02:43:58.241-05:00Comments on Mimi on the Breach: The Tears Keep Welling UpMimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812707312289852258noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-3698570275851450612007-04-19T22:44:00.000-04:002007-04-19T22:44:00.000-04:00I actually thought of you, when the shootings happ...I actually thought of you, when the shootings happened and of a few other profs who blog. I am a teacher, but of high school. It must be even more terrifying, because of the piercing empathy, for a university educator. I know about the tears, I have to stay a little removed because if I watch too much - I get so upset. Thanks for the post, it helps to know someone else felt the need to say Melanie D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01542313652003967176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-23510977734415297142007-04-18T18:09:00.000-04:002007-04-18T18:09:00.000-04:00It's hard not to feel scared...but that is the int...It's hard not to feel scared...but that is the intent of people who do things like this.crazymummahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04663148723513574331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-85403691268857377992007-04-18T16:07:00.000-04:002007-04-18T16:07:00.000-04:00yeah. blogged on it too. very very hard to do.......yeah. blogged on it too. very very hard to do.... i'm with you on it.gingajoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01356643079413822527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-88445331025655740292007-04-18T15:44:00.000-04:002007-04-18T15:44:00.000-04:00My thoughts are much along the lines of Bub&Pie's....My thoughts are much along the lines of Bub&Pie's. Only more rustic and not as well articulated. Like her, my news comes from the papers and the 'net. I'm intentionally shunning CNN and TV sources which seem unnecessarily inflammatory and emotional. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure what is the 'healthy' response to this situation, but I hope you heal, Mimi. I hope you regain your equilibrium and feel safe N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07533821425490415972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-31898955202833082722007-04-17T20:29:00.000-04:002007-04-17T20:29:00.000-04:00I so wanted to post about this, but couldn't someh...I so wanted to post about this, but couldn't somehow then found all these wonderful posts today from my friends. <BR/><BR/>I can kind of relate to what B&P is saying in a way. For me I am profoundly scared and sad, but it stills feel far away in many ways. What did hit home, way too hard was the lockdown drill at Papoosie Girl's school recently. It still keeps me up at night and makes me run Jeniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13100043209000589029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-36868949921563069292007-04-17T17:50:00.000-04:002007-04-17T17:50:00.000-04:00My husband knew one of the professors killed yeste...My husband knew one of the professors killed yesterday. Not as a friend, but as a colleague.<BR/><BR/>Still.<BR/><BR/>My husband also attended a conference at Virginia Tech this past November.<BR/><BR/>It feels close to home. Which, I hasten to add, does not make it worse than things that happen far away.<BR/><BR/>I keep wondering what it is in our culture lately that causes people in pain to Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05602868040771218507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-67877827518432992582007-04-17T16:46:00.000-04:002007-04-17T16:46:00.000-04:00I'm afraid to feel this deeply. It just seems to ...I'm afraid to feel this deeply. It just seems to be too much, too much that this violence happens, and happens in what most of us think of as a "safe" space. I don't know about anyone else, but we rarely locked our doors at the small, rural college I attended. We took exams without proctors and walked home from the library at night. It was an idyllic world back then, and even more so now.Suzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08009988766976677275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-42036183411958733342007-04-17T16:14:00.000-04:002007-04-17T16:14:00.000-04:00I was curiously unaffected until I read the story ...I was curiously unaffected until I read the story about the professor. That kind of courage is inspiring to me. And saddening.Run ANChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088821030860597465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-1709582185979816292007-04-17T15:22:00.000-04:002007-04-17T15:22:00.000-04:00I heard it said that if they only had armed securi...I heard it said that if they only had armed security at schools in the U.S., the carnage would be lessened. I doubt <I>more</I> guns is the answer.11111111https://www.blogger.com/profile/10642068570509276596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-73966424364773057642007-04-17T13:41:00.000-04:002007-04-17T13:41:00.000-04:00Mimi...i wish i had comfort to offer you in your w...Mimi...i wish i had comfort to offer you in your weeping. i kind of wish i needed it myself.<BR/><BR/>i too work (when i work, term is over for me) in a university classroom. and i read what you wrote and i thought, "she's right" but it was only when i googled the story of the Holocaust survivor prof that i too felt the tears come, felt the sadness and the vulnerability and the rise to protect Bonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14403701620708365171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-19866359251645524372007-04-17T12:48:00.000-04:002007-04-17T12:48:00.000-04:00Oh, Mimi. There is not much that I can say that ha...Oh, Mimi. There is not much that I can say that has not already been said by the other great women. I totally understand your sadness and fears. All I can do and send out a cyberspace (((hug))).Karla Zamora, Digital Analysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505957478431304863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-7381704028451803852007-04-17T12:10:00.000-04:002007-04-17T12:10:00.000-04:00B&P -- I'm surprised at how thin my defenses have ...B&P -- I'm surprised at how thin my defenses have become. I don't usually fall apart like this. Maybe it's the weaning? But I feel physically threatened and my soul is so heavy, and I'm just so sad for the world at large. I usually do such a good job of hiding from this kind of information, but something about this just got to me before I put my wall up. I don't know.Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812707312289852258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-46166904814692162172007-04-17T12:05:00.000-04:002007-04-17T12:05:00.000-04:00I've been wondering what's wrong with me this morn...I've been wondering what's wrong with me this morning because I don't feel <I>any</I> of that. I think I've got some kind of barrier on my imagination, because I've even consciously tried to dredge up a more empathetic response, imagining what it would feel like if a student came into my classroom and put a chain on the door to lock us in...and I can't do it. Full stop - the imagination simply Beahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15957626443087438904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-51168792007893896132007-04-17T12:03:00.000-04:002007-04-17T12:03:00.000-04:00God. I hadn't heard about the survivor. Not what I...God. I hadn't heard about the survivor. Not what I needed to hear this morning. All that surviving - for the purpose of saving...<BR/><BR/>I can't recover today.OhTheJoyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05031731198115388411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-14032154916096107212007-04-17T11:56:00.000-04:002007-04-17T11:56:00.000-04:00Sage -- I was in high school when it happened, a r...Sage -- I was in high school when it happened, a real computer nerd and science geek. It was a slap in the face, a punch in the gut. I was terrified. I thought we were **so done** with that kind of sexism and hate. I was wrong.Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812707312289852258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-87982202315637953242007-04-17T11:49:00.000-04:002007-04-17T11:49:00.000-04:00Oh, Mimi, I know that feeling of self-preservation...Oh, Mimi, I know that feeling of self-preservation.<BR/><BR/>The Montreal Massacre was such a defining moment in my childhood. Barely 12 years old and learning that so much hatred could be felt towards someone for their gender and their desire to be treated equally...until then, I don't think I really realised that people thought there was any real difference, beyond the surface.NotSoSagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04782162947524115936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-89473377552712926622007-04-17T11:17:00.000-04:002007-04-17T11:17:00.000-04:00Yep, me too. This is what I'm blogging about as we...Yep, me too. This is what I'm blogging about as well.Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13953517447164263617noreply@blogger.com