Today was one of those days.. a day that crept up on me silently, like a dark cloud. My own day to mourn, for the loss of my dad 3 years ago, to cancer. Until something else earth-shattering happened, knocking me right off my feet...

I want to say something happened last year on this date, too. It was the second anniversary of his death. My archives aren't set up right to read back to what it was, but I recall posting that perhaps (on that day) my dad wanted me to think of something else, instead of crying for him. Sadly, on this day, the whole country got to cry.. for way too many innocent lives, stolen by such a senseless act.