I am tired, she said, of exploding people

Human beings are capable of such abomination. It is hard to comprehend. All week, I have been out of sorts and under the weather and sick with thinking about what it must be like in Baghdad, or Virginia Tech or in the bed next to Cho's mother, whose heart must be so very broken and utterly alone.
The impossible voids we create.
I have a friend who is far away and her relationship is ending. It is like hanging around and watching someone die, she wrote.
War, weather, and the cough that won't go away.