A couple of days ago in Belfast, a man was hacked to death by a gang of blokes wielding machetes in his bedroom in front of his heavily pregnant wife, seemingly as part of a gypsy feud.
Yesterday, a man was found shot down outside Strabane, possibly after having been abducted as a result of a feud with dissident republicans.
A peaceful society is not a healed society and no amount of working together at Stormont will fix that. Somtimes it is really evident that things just aren’t right in the world. I’ve no pat answers to that - just a nagging feeling that all the things that aren’t right in me and my life make me part of the problem and a thankfulness that I am accepted anyway.