There’ll be things to post on in over the next few days about an experience that happened to me earlier today, but I need to let it settle so I can sort it out a little bit. For now, what I feel both in my heart and spirit is best left to these Brian Wilson lyrics from the first song off his eponymously-named 1988 album:

I was sittin’ in a crummy movie
With my hands on my chin
all the violence that occurs
Seems like we never win

Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

I was lying in my room
And the news came on TV
A lotta people out there hurtin’
And it really scares me

Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

I was standing in a bar
And watching all the people there
Oh the loneliness in this world
Well it’s just not fair

Love and mercy that’s what we need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

Love and mercy to all of you and your friends tonight, indeed.