Nine Framed Nine-Patch Blocks

You don’t have to look far to find ugly, hateful, or mean on the Internet. In fact, it’s a daily struggle to find anything that doesn’t make you want to close your laptop and open something by A.A. Milne or Beatrix Potter. I want this blog to be a kind of refuge. I don’t write about things that hit the front page; at least not directly. People who use terrible acts to gain attention to their cause achieve their goal no matter what the media says about them. They know there’s no such thing as bad press. Of the events occurring in Paris last week, only one story should be circulated: three terrorists DIDN’T hit their intended target. They planned to detonate explosive vests inside the crowded Stade de France, causing a deadly stampede. When the first was turned away at the gate they detonated outside the stadium, causing one civilian death instead of dozens. The guard who averted disaster was a Muslim.