Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

It's raining today.  Very unexpected but then isn't all the weather this year?  My husband and I marched out with umbrellas to the bakery to order a cake for our son-in-law's birthday.  All the flowers looked luscious in the rain.  I'm catching up on correspondence and working on the grandmother journal.  I'm reading a very important but hard to read book:  No Visible Bruises.  It is research into how to prevent domestic violence, and it is gripping but painful.  I worked many years in battered women's shelters, and I try to keep up with what's going on, but this book is important because it highlights the signs that will develop into a likely homicide.  People are being trained to notice these signs:  police, medical personnel, shelter workers, therapists, clergy and others who may come into contact with victims.  It's a hopeful book in that there are patterns, and some are subtle, that predict fairly accurately, when a perpetrator will kill his wife and/or children.  I pray that more people get trained and the knowledge also becomes more general for everyone.  Because all of us know someone living in fear, we just might not be aware of it.