Sadly it seems, too many days the leading news is about some senseless act being committed against other people. And sometimes, the senseless acts are against animals or, even, nature herself. The kind of senseless acts, about which I am thinking, are the willful, intentional acts. They are not the whoops---accidental kind. I am not sure I have any answers, except the most general kind of answers that are not unique to me. But I do have a need to lament. In the first place I need to be clear that what I consider a senseless act might very well be considered completely sensible by the perpetrator who commits these acts. For example, I think of the terrorists who regularly make the news. I don’t know whether I ever heard or used the word, terrorist, before 9-ll. Perhaps, I did, but after that heinous act of bringing down the Twin Towers in New York City, the word, ...