Feb 5, 2021
Pike County Sheriff Tracy Evans reports that his office responded to two incidents of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wounds in Waverly Wednesday evening.neither of which were fatal.
On Dobbins Lane, the victim of a shotgun wound to the chest was transported to Pike Adena and then Grant Medical in Columbus, and was reported in stable condition.
On Kent Lane, the victim of a gunshot to the right leg was treated and released from Pike Adena, to be turned over to the Chillicothe Police on outstanding warrants for larceny.
A Christmas tree can be a time machine. Antique or even modern baubles, summoning a land of lost content . . . or so it seems in wishful memory – where happy moments are magnified, all pain and trivia tinselled away. But the Christmas tree is a paradox: cheerful hope and wistful melancholy combined. The distorted reflections in its decorations are either heartening or defeated. Deep purple is the most extreme perhaps . . . or green or blue, who can say – the mood changes as swiftly as the rules of covid. To look up through the wire and plastic branches of a fake tree, bedecked in glitter and lights, induces a simple childlike delight, a heathen joy, or a queasy question mark. Holding a twisted mirror to sincere religious belief, this spangled trophy can also appear a profound embodiment of the debased human situation. And the ghastlier a decorated Christmas tree is, the more dislocating its presence might become. To get completely carried away, a contemplation of this presenc