Thursday, August 27, 2015

Vicarious Trauma



I awoke this morning with that abhorrent frame grab of the hand that killed Alison Parker indelibly burned into my mind.

It was his vile intent to made us "vicarious" participants in his world of the macabre, perverse, depraved, unnatural — seeing what he sees, hearing what he hears, feeling everything he felt, and perhaps even anticipating his thoughts.


"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5).

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