It seems strange to write the day after a tragedy. This is when having a blog and being in social media gets tougher to navigate. You never know what to say or do. Do you write about Boston? Do you write as normal and ignore the elephant on the page? I don’t know what the correct answer is but I know how I felt when I went to twitter for some updates yesterday and I saw posts that had nothing to do with Boston. I felt icky. Like, who were these people writing about giveaways and personal stories when there were runners and spectators and eight year old boys fighting for their lives right up the street?
But I get it sometimes. Work must go on and these people are working. Social media, while social, is also a business and if you weren’t on Boylston Street yesterday afternoon, your business didn’t shut down. Thus, people have to keep writing on deadline and covering topics that are timely to them even if they aren’t breaking news. I know, I have deadlines and contracts to satisfy myself this week.
Luckily for me, none of those deadlines are today. Yes, today was supposed to be a list of all the books I’ve had the pleasure to review over the last few weeks. But that post can wait a day or two.
Today, there will be no Talky-Talk, there will be no scheduled review post or roundup list. Today there is only room for my heavy heart both for the people and families actually injured or killed in yesterday’s tragedy, and for all the people of Boston. The Marathon is an event of great joy and celebration and someone tried to take that from them. My heart hurts for the added attack on their joy.
That is all that needs to be written here today.
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