Not an hour has gone by today without me thinking about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. It is interesting to see how quickly we begin to move to protective measures to make sure the same "won't happen here".

How can we guarantee that? Who saw this coming? Like they knew, and did nothing! How quick we are to point fingers.

Being on a small college campus in the midwest, the questions quickly turned to how that could happen here. Today we're all reminded that the world isn't perfect. The way we deal with each other is disturbing at times. Will that ever change?

That's here. That's close. Definitely too close for comfort.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, children in Sudan suffer every day. As loud as the gun was in that building in Blacksburg, the guns in Darfur remain seemingly silent to us. Out of sight, out of mind. So, we continue to localize, minimize, and at the same time distance ourselves from pain. As long as things stay as far away as Blacksburg, as close as that is, here in Bourbonnais we remain safe; or so we say.

Today, though, the world seems really small.