Even Sadder When It's Close to Home

We have arrived back home in Minnesota this afternoon after our trip out east. While in New Jersey last evening I heard about the tragic death of an American tourist near the Olympics. All I heard was that he was father-in-law of a coach and father of a former Olympic athlete.

Well, I get home and am checking in on one of my standard sites and I discover that the tourist was Todd Bachman, CEO of a well-known Minneapolis home and garden company, Bachman’s. His wife has also had life-threatening injuries.

All of a sudden there is a closeness to the tragedy. A name that rings a bell. A location that I have stopped in or seen many times. This does not make the death any more tragic, it just brought it closer to home for me. It also reminds me that every death is a death of someone important to someone. Not a particularly new idea. But it does help us keep tragedy in perspective and should remind us to not treat any with a cavalier attitude.