We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Okay, it's only been three years. I started We wish to inform you yesterday, but the details were so grim I had to stop reading for a while and do something a little less painful.

This morning, I was startled to read an interview in Oprah with Paul Rusesabagina, the man who hid 1,268 people in his hotel during the terrible civil war described in We wish to inform you. A hard book to read, but obviously it is one I should be reading.


Later:
A very hard book for me to read. In the years it has been sitting on my shelf, I've picked it up a hundred times and then put it back down...too dark, I thought...too bleak...too depressing.

It is every one of these things, dark, bleak, depressing. But it cannot be ignored. We must look closely at this horror, to understand it, to think about it, to know this is also part of who we are as human beings, awful as that is to admit. Can we figure out the whys of how this happened? Can we find ways to stop it from happening again? I am not sure, but I know that I want to try.