On this day in 2017 my mother passed away to a near-simultaneous chorus of automatic weapons and screams in Las Vegas, NV. And then, the deadly silence that ensued. In a lifetime of trauma, abuse and violence, there was no greater horror in one day's time for all those souls. ☮️

while I'm still troubled at the mysterious destruction of people's lives, a voice in my head is also relieved it was perpetrated by some generic white guy. I shudder at the thought of some racist scumbag using this story to ferment more race hatred in this already lost country.