If I ran the zoo

 

January 29, 2020

IN PRAISE OF SUNSETS – ‘The sun will come out tomorrow’ Annie sings in her musical, and it will. Beautiful sunsets, great songs and fine words may lessen the pain of senseless tragedy, but the pain is still there. Best to find all the beauty in the world we can, even when we are looking through our tears, as Mel Damski may have been, thinking of the late, great Kobe Bryant when taking this photo Sunday. – Photo courtesy of Mel Damski

The clouds broke and the sun made a rare appearance on Sunday and I texted my dog-walking buddies and we all showed up at the off-leash dog park.

Just as we were leaving our cars in the parking lot, Betsy got a text and announced that Kobe Bryant had been killed in a helicopter crash along with his four young daughters. We all went into an immediate funk, praying that his widow could somehow someday overcome this horrifying unimaginable grief.

As we walked the dogs, we continued to get updates and finally found out that Kobe and his eldest daughter, 13-year-old Gianna, were in the chopper on the way to a girls’ basketball game and, with six other passengers and the pilot, died in the hills north of Los Angeles.

Still beyond horrible, but I thought, thank God, his widow Vanessa will have three daughters to raise and they will someday be able to overcome this tragedy.

I was in a terrible funk and ended our dog walk early and headed home. The sun was just starting to go down and I saw the most spectacular sunset and I pulled over and took out my camera and I thought, no matter who we are, famous, not famous, rich or poor, we are blessed to be on this Earth and we have to say a prayer every day and thank God or Darwin or just the Universe for whatever time we have on this planet.

Kobe got to soar through the air with the greatest of ease during his remarkable career and I’m imagining him moving through the Universe the same way, including his daughter Gianna and the other seven victims of the crash.

 

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