Beating a Dead Horse

Over and over we read the sad news. But – what do we do about it? Nothing! Or, at least not much.

Here’s the report from the Star-Telegram:  “A Fort Worth middle school principal was placed on paid administrative leave Monday after being arrested last weekend in Dallas.”   The principal “was arrested over the weekend, accused of abandoning her children at a Dallas hotel to go to a nightclub, officials said. Police accuse[d] (her) of leaving her two children, ages 3 and 4, at the Adolphus hotel downtown to go to a nightclub. When the club’s bouncer did not let her in, she became angry and punched him, police said. She was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Police then learned that she left her children alone at the hotel, where they were found naked and hungry, authorities said.”

Public intoxication! I pray this is an isolated aberration and that she will return to the position of an upstanding woman doing a difficult job. . .and raising a family while a father is away at war. But let’s be honest. This is the result of booze! I said yesterday (in my lloveletter that precedes this one) that destroying families and homes is a common result of “intoxication.”

How foolish of me to think that our society could stop all this – the damage, destruction, mayhem, death, hurt (emotionally and physically) children, and in this case, probably a lost career. . .all of the incomparable madness that results from booze.

But, what if. . .