I am writing this on Ascension Day, remembering Ascension Day twenty-four years ago when I sat at Central Lutheran for the combined Episcopal-Lutheran Eucharist that evening and silently wept as the choir sang the Sanctus from the Faure Requiem. Ascension Day 1998 was the day of the Thurston shooting. I spent the day telling my students I didn’t know what to say to them, and wasn’t about to mouth empty platitudes just to say something. By the next day, after a mostly sleepless night, I had found my voice.

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