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Re: A time for aikido
What a nightmare. We're all numb here. My brother was less than a half-mile from the blast, working as a Red Cross volunteer at the first aid station @ Kenmore Square. He said that some of the injured runners came back there from Copley for treatment of their wounds.
I was in downtown Boston on Sunday, training with friends and chatting with people who had traveled to Boston from all over the world to run in the marathon on Monday. The subways were packed with happy marathoners and their families, and the mood was like a carnival. Runners from Nevada, runners from England... a few even recognized each other from other marathons they had run elsewhere in the world. They called out to each other across the train cars like long-lost relatives.
The contrast between Sunday and Monday was like heaven and hell. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families, and all who were caught up in this horrific and tragic event.
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