Fireworks in the sky won’t be the hottest thing smoking this weekend. Unless you have been in solitary confinement or living a monastic lifestyle on a secluded mountain for the last three years, then surely you have heard something about the Casey Anthony trial, which I have been writing about on my Potpourri101 blog.
Anthony is the 25 year old woman charged with first degree murder for allegedly murdering her two year old daughter, Caylee, three years ago.
Closing arguments on the case begin this morning. If convicted Anthony could receive the death penalty. Depending on whether or not you have closely followed the trial, some of you will look at Anthony and see an attractive, innocent, girl next door. Others will see evil and pretty poison. The jury will decide Anthony’s fate. But whether she coldheartedly killed her daughter or accidentally caused her death is ultimately between her and her maker.
When I look at Anthony, I recall a line from Cherie Carter-Scott’s book titled If Life is a Game, These are the Rules and I wonder if precisely as the verdict is being read will Anthony be thinking about those words, “In the game of life, why am I the only one who doesn’t know how to play?”