Winter birds have gathered by the hundreds along the shoreline. Black and grey coots skitter across the sparkling sea preparing to lift into the sky. A long string of Western grebes and ducks are sprinkled among the flickers of light on the surface like pepper on a sugar frosted silver cake. In the midst of all this beauty, my heart turns to the recent killing of twenty first graders in Newtown, Connecticut. To the parents of those children, the families of the heroic teachers and staff who did their best to protect those [...]