The reason why there are so many different threads is the same reason why Union Square in New York is filled with thousands of different pictures, scribbles, candles whatever. We are in an era when people want to express their need to mourn and respond in their own way. They want to create their own space in the larger public space. These are threads in a quilt of anger, stupidity, love, nonsense, music, personal testimony, etc. It will subside. Have some grace, some compassion, let it happen, for pity's sake.

yours, Peter T.

P.S. If a blues and folk music site is not centrally concerned about a tragedy of this kind it is completely and utterly worthless. This is the biggest goddamn blues you could ever not want.