A Purposeful and a Purposeless Life

You've got to feel sorry for Kayla Wood's family. Instead of attending her graduation from kindergarten where she was supposed to sing, they are planning her funeral.

The six year-old girl was out playing with her four year-old brother last week when she became the unwitting target in a police chase involving some drug dealers.

At the hospital, her father held her hand after surgeons tried massaging her heart.

"I saw the life leave her," said her father, Matthew Woods. "I saw her eyes go from glossy to hazy, from rosy to pale. It's the worst feeling in the world. It hurts to think about it."

The drug dealers who took the little girl's life must care more about their own creature comforts than about the lives of their friends or family members, and surely not about a little girl who was as consequential as a footnote to them. They are the kind of beings who make the death penalty look appealing.

I am more than likely going to send money to her memorial fund. May she rest in peace.

The Kayla Woods Memorial Fund
356A W. Colorado Boulevard
Glendale, CA 91105