The horrific shootings in Tucson yesterday hit close to home for several reasons including that the Safeway where they occurred is very close to where my father lives in Oro Valley/northwest Tucson. I don’t think I’ve been to that Safeway but I’ve driven by it dozens of times and been to stores and restaurants nearby.
There are so many businesses on that suburban strip that it’s hard to place the exact location of the Safeway, in my mind. One of the many news reports I’ve watched showed a sign for “Beyond Bread” – which confused me since last I knew, Beyond Bread (a favorite restaurant) is on Campbell – not Oracle where the Safeway is located. A minor point, obviously, given the overall tragedy. But maybe my determined effort, in the wake of the shootings, to get my physical bearings is also, deep-down, an attempt to get my psychological bearings, to figure out how close we are, as we go about our everyday lives, to danger.
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