Susannah

Some time ago the online food company Seamless put together an advertising tweet that said, “Important: today is National Guacamole Day. Nothing else matters.” Then they set it to air around lunchtime on Monday, September 16. There’s nothing remarkable about that. September 16 was, in fact, National Guacamole Day. But the tweet arrived just as most of us were trying to digest the news that another seriously unbalanced person had shot several innocent people who were simply going about their daily lives. Something else really does matter, and we’re struggling to make sense of it all. There are people who say it’s proof that we need tighter gun controls. It’s hard to see how that would help when the person responsible broke laws we already have in place. I think it has more to do with how we treat the mentally ill. I wish I had an answer. All I can say is I could really use some guacamole right now.