I am watching the reports on TV from NASA and Texas. It seems clear that we have lost another space shuttle, and seven fine world citizens. The kids are busy downstairs, watching their cartoons. Nickelodeon, thankfully, is not interrupting children’s programming. Their Sunday School class has been talking about the Israeli astronaut. I’ll figure out what to say to them in a little while, if I can do so without bursting into tears. Right now, I feel just numb.