I finally got the nerve to take the dog out for a walk tonight. It’s been over a week since he’s been out.  I had been up to Big Bear, come home, unpacked the car when I heard screaming and activity out in the street. I went out to see if I could help and a very pregnant girl in the street told me, He’s bleeding. as she pointed down the block while clutching the phone. I had seen a pit bull earlier and thought, Oh No the dog must have bitten someone.  Boy was I wrong…oh so wrong. I ran down to see if I could help. I have limited First Aid Experience, but know about Clearing the Airway, Breathing and Bleeding. On the porch, a boy was face down and another guy had pressure on his neck. Someone was yelling, they were stabbed, they were stabbed. I saw  a young man running around with a wound on his neck. I made him sit on the side of the porch, while I checked it and then put pressure on the wound while doing Reiki. Three boys were stabbed that afternoon, One died.

When I was at the Police Station all I could think of was How Sad. It was so sad. The boys that had been part of the attack had run down the street. Apparently there were 4 boys.

How many parents, grandparents, siblings, classmates & friends would be hurting trying to make sense of this senseless act. I felt bad for everyone. What could cause someone to want or need to stab another human being. They all looked like kill wounds. Someone had studied where to stab and how to stab to kill. They all looked like Children to me.

I didn’t get to celebrate my father’s 84th birthday because I didn’t get out of the Police Station until 1:30 in the morning. I was so tired I couldn’t remember my age when asked.

So the dog finally got his walk. He was thrumming with joy. I was kind of freaking out. And then a street light blinked on and off. That, in my mind, is my brother Hugh letting me know everything is O.K. He loved the dog and I think he watches over him and my family from heaven. So, I have lost two brothers and a sister and it breaks my heart to think of a life taken too soon, and all of those injured hearts out there trying to make sense of their new reality.