I lit a candle last night, one of those big fat ones that melts inwardly so no need for a saucer.
It was for Karoly, whose spirit left just as mine arrived, Roger, who was very badly treated in his slave camp but remained jolly and helpful for the rest of his life but is buried far from his origins, and for all those endless throngs in Gaza, so badly treated by those who should know better, and last but not least Ukraine, who would have believed that neo-colonialism would rear its ugly head again, and in Europe.
Strangely relaxing, the 3 of us sitting in, relative, dark with the flickering light on the ceiling. How lucky we are.
Just read this awkward, morally complex article and thought it might be of interest. The readersâ comments (link from the bottom of the article) are also interesting. The link takes you behind the NYT paywall:-
Iâve read it all, and agree, but I saw only one mention of Gaza. I could not put that out of my mind as I read, the numbers mean nothing, from millions to thousands, it is all the same, and if I live long enough to read something similar from a Gaza survivor in the years to come, will it be any less poignant?
What about the ambulance workers recently killed? As if the killing wasnât bad enough by those who knew what they were doing, to hurriedly bury them not in honour but because they knew it was a crime. Bizzarely the worst of it was to bury the vehicles, or attempt to, they knew, just as the Nazis knew in Budapest tying women together, shooting some and pushing the living and the dead in one lump into the river.
But will we ever see the criminal Netanyahoo, in prison for life, stranger things have happened, Karadzic evaded capture and now still languishes in Parkhurst for his crimes. One can only hope.