And I’m Wondering Why – A Letter

“And I’m wondering why“, begins the chorus of a song I’ve found myself listening to over and over. It is a question I have asked countless times over, a question I found myself asking numerous times today and the past few months, in the wake of a sequence of devastating news that has left America numb.

Why?

I wonder why children are targeted and slaughtered as they sit in school and pray in Mass. I wonder why loved ones have to die. I wonder why a woman is left to die a slow and agonizing ...