Death in the Pond! Death in the Pond!

It's late Tuesday night and I am restless. I am restless and will remain restless for a while since I have not gone to sleep yet due to the fact that I have to write this blog before I go to bed! I better get to it.
Tragedy struck today in the middle of the day at the Arizona Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventist headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. Yes, you heard me right-- Arizona! All seemed normal after a late breakfast. Most of the office staff left for lunch not knowing that death was lurking in the shadows. And like an unwelcomed intruder that finds entrance uninvited, so it was that while most of us were enjoying lunch with friends dozens of victims were felled in a matter of minutes. The count will never be determined with total clarity, but the crime scene was horrific.
The sad thing is that nobody noticed the scene even upon returning from lunch. The victims were floating on the surface of the water in our atrium pond without notice until someone glanced in the pond and immediately called for help-- too late. The culprit was long gone and only the crime scene remained. Investigators came and took water samples and cleared the pond of all the bodies. White victims, black victims, orange victims-- oh the humanity!
The fish that I had mentioned in passing as the only competition for the majestic Ficus were all dead. Suddenly! Mysteriously! Only the bottom-feeding, slime-sucking catfish survived the aquatic grim reaper.
And so death visited the peaceful and quiet offices that are unaccustomed to such events. There were tears shed, moments of silence and contemplation. There remain more questions than answers for the moment. Did someone come during lunch and slip a mickey in the water? Did the mighty Ficus deposit some toxic secretion from its debris? Was there a Jim Jones guppy leading the watery lemmings to a mass self-demise? Did they believe there was a sea-ship waiting to wisp them away to another world? Is this a precursor to the last vestiges of the Mayan calendar-- 2012? Global warming? Obamacare? The Tea Party?
I don't know what to make of it, to be quite honest. In the big scheme of things it's a blip. But to some people it was a true loss. They were invested in the fish! They fed them. They cared for them. They visited them. That's investment. The level of investment corresponds directly to the level of effort you put in to the object or objects of your investment. And it hurts when loss comes-- and it does to all. I guess there’s a lesson in there somewhere! I must get to sleep-- enough of being restless. Just as long as I don't have to sleep with the fishies....