Life Down Under

Kansas City on the news

I forgot to mention yesterday that my hometown of Kansas City made the national news in both New Zealand and Australia last night, unfortunately for a tragic reason . I have to say, it was pretty weird sitting in my living room in New Zealand, watching pictures on TV of a mall on the other side of the world that I had been to a handful of times. The bad news is that three people lost their lives; the good news is that the police believe it could have been a lot worse, and intervened before more people were killed. Sure does bring home the reality of life and death - the shortness of life; the inevitability of death, and the unknown of when each of us will step over the threshold into the realm of eternity.